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Secure Web Gateway (SWG) Software

Secure Web Gateway

What is Secure Web Gateway Software?

Any software, appliance, or cloud-based service that protects corporate users and networks from web-based malware, controls employee behavior on the Internet, and helps prevent data loss.

Common Features

  • Mobile Device Protection
  • Analytics and Reporting
  • Unified Management Interface
  • Bandwidth Utilization Management
  • URL Filtering
  • Malware Detection
  • Directory Integration
  • URL Categorization
  • Rule Based Policy Engine
  • Application Control
  • DLP Functionality
  • SSL Scanning
  • Sandboxing

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Next Award: Oct 2025

Top Secure Web Gateway Software 2024

Product scores listed below represent current data. This may be different from data contained in reports and awards, which express data as of their publication date.

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Composite Score
8.1 /10
CX Score
8.3 /10

Intelligent Web Security for Your Extended Workforce. Infinitely scale, connect and secure your workforce while accessing the internet from anywhere, any application, any device and at anytime.

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Pros

  • Respectful
  • Helps Innovate
  • Efficient Service
  • Effective Service
Badge Winner
Composite Score
8.0 /10
CX Score
8.4 /10

Proactively secure the web with advanced, real-time threat defenses—full content inspection and in-line security scanning help mitigate risk and protect against malware.

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Pros

  • Helps Innovate
  • Continually Improving Product
  • Efficient Service
  • Effective Service
Badge Winner
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Embracing the current paradigm shift from simple URL filtering to comprehensive malware protection, the Check Point Secure Web Gateway provides an intuitive solution that enables secure use of Web 2.0 with real time multi-layered protection against web-borne malware, largest application coverage in the industry, advanced granular control, intuitive centralized management, and essential end-user education functionality.

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Pros

  • Helps Innovate
  • Reliable
  • Trustworthy
  • Unique Features
Badge Winner
Composite Score
7.9 /10
CX Score
8.1 /10

Advanced, cloud-enabled network security for anyone, anywhere, any device

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Pros

  • Respectful
  • Fair
  • Reliable
  • Effective Service
Badge Winner
Composite Score
7.7 /10
CX Score
7.8 /10

Zscaler Web Security provides unmatched security, visibility and control, going beyond the basics of web content filtering.

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Pros

  • Security Protects
  • Reliable
  • Performance Enhancing
  • Enables Productivity

Products below are ineligible for awards due to insufficient recent reviews

GFI Software

GFI WebMonitor

Composite Score
8.8 /10
CX Score
9.0 /10

GFI WebMonitor delivers unique web filtering capabilities by combining application-based traffic filtering with a website categorization functionality. Together they allow accurate control over what users are doing online and the applications they are using.

Pros

  • Helps Innovate
  • Continually Improving Product
  • Reliable
  • Performance Enhancing
Composite Score
8.5 /10
CX Score
8.8 /10

InterScanTM Web Security is a software virtual appliance that combines application control with zero-day exploit detection, advanced anti-malware scanning, real-time web reputation, and flexible URL filtering to provide superior Internet threat protection.

Pros

  • Helps Innovate
  • Continually Improving Product
  • Reliable
  • Performance Enhancing
Composite Score
8.3 /10
CX Score
7.6 /10

WebTitan provides a simple and easy solution to protect your company and employees when online.

Pros

  • Helps Innovate
  • Continually Improving Product
  • Reliable
  • Performance Enhancing
Composite Score
8.3 /10
CX Score
8.6 /10

Advanced URL Filtering is the industry’s first inline ML-powered web protection engine that stops unknown web-based attacks in real time to prevent patient zero.

Pros

  • Helps Innovate
  • Continually Improving Product
  • Reliable
  • Performance Enhancing
Allot Communications

WebSafe Business

Composite Score
8.0 /10
CX Score
8.7 /10

Allot WebSafe Business enables you to provide effective and highly flexible Security as a Service to SMB (small and medium businesses) and enterprise customers whose applications are migrating to the cloud where they are accessed via the Internet.