Banyan’s Secure Web Gateway (SWG) technology protects users from being phished, straying onto malicious web sites, and being exposed to malware attacks
Now more than ever, people are using the internet as their network of choice to connect to the applications and resources they need to do their jobs. Unfortunately, the internet can be a dangerous place, where an innocent click on a link can infect a machine with malware, leading to credential theft or even an organizational ransomware incident.
Rapid adoption of “work from anywhere” has provided global hiring options, organizational flexibility and resilience, but creates challenges due to employees, contractors, and third-parties on non-managed devices (think BYOD) using unknown networks. This often results in networking, IT, and security teams managing by exception and special case, arranging one-off mechanisms for providing secure access.
Protecting this modern workforce from damage caused by an errant click is of paramount importance. Doing so in an easily deployed and managed way while ensuring end user productivity is doubly important.
“The human element continues to drive breaches. This year, 82% of breaches involved the human element.”
“Ransomware has continued its upward trend with an almost 13% increase (for a total of 25% of breaches) – a rise as big as the past five years combined.”
Enabling Safe, Secure Access
Banyan Security’s Secure Web Gateway (SWG) capabilities provide robust internet threat protection. Protect users from being phished, straying onto malicious web sites, credential theft, or being exposed to ransomware. Optional controls enable organizations to enforce acceptable use policy (AUP), for example blocking specific categories of web sites like gambling and pornography.
Rest assured your workforce is protected, regardless of worker type or location, supporting use of both managed or unmanaged BYOD devices.
SWG Use Cases
Common use cases include:
- Protecting users from internet threats like phishing, malware, and ransomware
- Controlling access at an appropriate level of detail using granular policies
- Enforcing an organization’s acceptable use policies (control internet access)
- Gaining visibility into user activity
Banyan Security Platform SWG Capabilities
Banyan provides an easy-to-configure combination of DNS and web security as well as app discovery and blocking, enabling you to filter and block harmful or unauthorized content in real-time. Protection users against traditional threats as well as high-risk domains, including new domains and cryptomining. Newly seen domains are continuously categorized using an artificial intelligence scanning engine, taking less than 15 seconds on average. Users are kept safe while seamlessly being afforded the freedom of modern internet use.
DNS
All DNS requests are analyzed, ensuring known-bad and risky domains are notaccessed
Web
Deeper URL inspection allows more granular handling of specific sites
App
Knowing what cloud apps your organization uses helps identify risk areas, blocking as appropriate
All needed functionality is built right into the lightweight Banyan app. Protection is afforded even if the user hasn’t logged in!
Other vendors force all traffic across a full tunnel, causing end users to suffer poor performance, especially with high-bandwidth applications like collaboration tools and video. Banyan’s device-centric solution locally chooses the appropriate method for each type of access, providing full protection without degrading performance, infringing on privacy, or harming the user experience.
Banyan administrators create flexible, granular policies using dozens of available threat types and domain categories. Protection is further refined to include (block) or exclude (allow) specific top-level domains or subdomains. Policies are then assigned to users based on role, device ownership type, and device posture. Of course, admins have full control over the messaging users see when experiencing a block. These powerful, human-readable policies help to meet regulatory and compliance needs, as well as ensure your organization’s acceptable use polices are enforced.
Since issues are prevented from happening in the first place rather than being discovered after the fact, reported malware and alerts are greatly reduced. This “de-cluttering” increases the value of the visibility gained into user activity including key items like top blocked domains, top domains searched, times when domains were searched, and domains searched per client./
Quickly provide your workforce secure access to corporate resources and infrastructure.