The Web has become the threat vector of choice for hackers and cybercriminals to distribute malware and perpetrate identity theft, financial fraud and corporate espionage. Providing a safe Web experience requires protection in three distinct dimensions:
Huge volumes of spam and malware testify to the intent of hackers to exploit end-users. The two main on-line activities of users are checking email and surfing the Web.
In response to the significant advances in email security technologies over the last 10 years, attackers are now expanding their efforts to compromising users while they surf the Web. Increasingly common are blended threats that incorporate malicions URLs in email. While many of the "Web security products" available today were designed when the Web was a safer environment, Reflexion Web Security is specifically designed to detect and repel the latest malicious methods.
Reflexion Web Security helps by monitoring and building reputation information for online identities. This intelligence, which can also be used to understand a specific individual's online background, is useful in several scenarios. For example, it can help on-line users make safer decisions about how to interact with others in commerce, collaboration and communication.
Traditional URL filtering is based on tedious human efforts to classify Web site content. With more than 100,000 new domains registered each day, such approaches cannot keep-up. The result is that traditional URL Filtering solutions tout databases that are only a fraction of all URLs available on the Web and that may not encompass the relevant Web – i.e., the portion of the Internet that users actually visit. Reflexion's Web Reputation feature focuses on closing this gap by building intelligence on the 'long tail' of the Web — the hundreds of millions of sites that users actually visit on a daily basis.
Traditional anti-virus and object-scanning anti-malware tools are designed to analyze a downloaded file, such as an executable. While helpful, these tools do not provide adequate visibility into the browser-based attacks that take advantage of the increased server-to-browser interaction that is central to the Web 2.0 applications that are now a part of everyday on-line life.
Reflexion's "sandbox" deals with these new threats by analyzing how a site is attempting to interact with the browser and blocking suspicious activity, before serving pages to the user.
Web Security is composed of two services, which can be purchased separately or as a bundle:
Reflexion's Web Security service is deployed as a hosted solution that sits between a company's network and the Internet to protect on-line users as they surf the Web. As an in-the-cloud service, Reflexion Web Security inspects outbound Web traffic for safety and compliance with a company's Acceptable Use Policy, and screens Web site response traffic to avoid malicious programs and untrustworthy users.
Administrators monitor and manage the service using a simple Web-based management application that provides a blend of enterprise-caliber defenses and usability features, such as directory integration for group or individual policies, pre-defined security policies, and a wealth of reports on effectiveness, compliance and usage.
All of Reflexion's Hosted Services, including Email Security, Archiving, Discovery and Recovery, and business continuity, as well as URL Filtering and Web Security are sold exclusively through a worldwide channel of IT Solution Providers and ISPs. For more information on Reflexion or to register as a solution provider, please visit http://www.reflexion.net/sp.