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On-Ramping Traffic to a Cloud-Based Secure Web Gateway
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On-Ramping Traffic to a Cloud-Based Secure Web Gateway

Akamai·Jim Black·about 1 month ago
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Most organizations have deployed a secure web gateway (SWG) to proactively manage and control employees’ access to the public internet and to identify and block malicious content such as malware, ransomware, and phishing attacks. \r\n Originally, SWGs were deployed in data centers as physical or virtual appliances, and since most employees worked in physical locations and were connected to the corporate network, on-ramping internet traffic to the appliance was simple and straightforward. Employees who needed to work remotely used a virtual private network (VPN) to backhaul internet traffic to the data center to apply security controls.  \r\n A brave new (security) world \r\n The world is now a very different place . It’s true that there are organizations that need to retain on-premises security appliances for compliance reasons.…

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