Port 80 Security

SCS offers the industry’s first security appliance to provide critical security for Web protocols and Port 80 content. Based on a secure operating system, SCS offers the ideal choice for protecting Internet applications such as: Web browsing; Instant Messenger; Peer to Peer sharing; Web based email such as Yahoo, and rich multimedia content. The use of these Web applications exposes the organization to new security threats from Web viruses, hostile mobile code and inappropriate content, all of which use HTTP (Port 80) as an “open door” into the network.

Web Virus Scanning:
“Scan once, serve many” model allows real-time scanning and scalability with existing virus server solutions. ICAP (Internet Content Adaptation Protocol) support allows for scanning of Web-based viruses delivered over HTTP and FTP through integration with leading anti-virus solutions.

Content Security:
Parses inbound Web and multimedia content and strips out malicious mobile code and active content invisible to other security devices.

Content Filtering:
Integrated URL filtering enables IT staff to prevent users from accessing inappropriate content.

Proxy Server:
High-performance, scalable replacement for existing proxy servers.

Intelligent Caching of Web Content:
Proxy caching technology ensures intelligent caching of content including content requiring authentication at origin servers

Streaming Bandwidth Control:
Allows organizations to define limits for the total amount of network capacity available for streaming media as well as the maximum streaming
bandwidth individual users can request. Multimedia streaming types supported include:

• Real Networks
• Microsoft Windows Media
• Apple QuickTime
• MP3
• Flash.

Content Transformation:
Limit or strip and replace what information is available in content headers so that information about the corporate network isn’t available on the Internet.

Denial of Service Attack Resistance:
Distinguishes between valid and malicious connections to continue servicing legitimate users while resisting DOS attacks

Alternative Caching Configurations

Caching can also be rolled out invisibly in the network which helps with networks where caching is not designed to be a point of failure.

Web Content Caching Protocol (WCCP):
A redirection is placed in the router and/or switch in order to cache content invisibly without affecting the network, or becoming a point of failure within the network.