SWG
Broadcom Secure Web Gateways Impede Growth
It’s time to rethink your Broadcom (Symantec/Blue Coat) approach and stop grappling with:
Security blind spots
Appliance-based SWGs increase your risk of compromise because they can’t inspect 100% of TLS/SSL-encrypted traffic—a must now that ~95% of traffic is encrypted.
Latency issues
Appliance-based SWGs slow down and create poor user experiences when bandwidth- and connection-intensive applications like Microsoft 365 overwhelm their processing limitations.
Maintenance and scalability challenges
Your team is always burdened with the need to manually manage patches, upgrades, and change windows. When you fall behind, it’s exponentially harder to catch up.
The Solution
Transform your security with a fundamentally different architecture
Offered as a scalable SaaS platform through the world’s largest security cloud, it replaces legacy network security solutions, preventing advanced attacks and data loss with a comprehensive zero trust approach for hybrid organizations.
Zscaler vs. Broadcom (Symantec/Blue Coat)
Symantec (Blue Coat)
Zscaler
Form Factor
Appliance-based
Inherently capacity-limited, boxes can’t scale performance without adding more appliances.
Cloud native
Eliminate the need for appliances with a cloud native proxy architecture with infinite scale.
TLS/SSL Inspection
Leaves you at risk
Nearly all web traffic is encrypted, but appliances can’t inspect it effectively, putting you at risk when 85.9% of threats are delivered over encrypted channels.
Leaves nothing hidden
Inspect 100% of TLS/SSL traffic inline, without degrading performance or compromising on effective security.
Threat Prevention
Can't keep up
Appliances need constant upgrades and updates to keep pace with adversaries using automated tools and novel evasion tactics.
Always up to date
Drastically reduce your attack surface with the power of the cloud—get 250K+ daily security updates sourced from more than 500B daily transactions across the entire security stack.
Malware Analysis
Passthrough inspection
Unknown and suspicious files pass through the proxy without inline inspection, leaving the network exposed to a variety of attacks.
AI/ML-based quarantine
Stop and quarantine zero-day attacks—even if they’re hidden in TLS/SSL traffic—preventing them from reaching their targets with inline detection with AI/ML-based analysis.
Ransomware
Too many blind spots
Traditional appliances can’t fully inspect encrypted traffic, and since almost 86% of threats are encrypted, ransomware gets into your network undetected.
Comprehensive protection
Expose, isolate, and stop ransomware in its tracks, regardless of user, location, or network, with 100% inspection of TLS/SSL traffic at scale.
Remote Workforce
Unable to scale
Appliance-based approaches can’t scale adequately to secure a large remote workforce, making security policy management complex and cumbersome.
Infinite scale
Leverage a native cloud architecture that enables auto-scale with a frictionless transition of security policies to protect hybrid workforces.
Microsoft 365
Poor user experiences
Appliances bottleneck cloud apps like Microsoft 365 that depend on throughput and sessions with other hardware controls, leading to poor user experiences.
Superior performance and productivity
Give users a direct, secure connection to Microsoft 365 with one-click configuration, delivering optimized performance and a more productive user experience.
Administration
Tedious
Dealing with hardware configuration issues and inconsistent policies across the network and remote users wastes a lot of time.
Straightforward
With the network out of the equation, focus on creating context-based business policies that are enforced consistently across on-premises and cloud environments, without any hardware constraints.
America's largest auto retailer switched to Zscaler
AutoNation moved from secure web gateway appliances to Zscaler. Watch their story to find out the benefits they realized in return.
