Windows

Cloud-based, enterprise-grade web protection for small and medium businesses

Avast Business Secure Web Gateway is a fully scalable, cloud-based web security solution that blocks web threats before they get into your network. Now you can secure your network traffic without the complexity and overhead of additional proxy servers or on-premise appliances. Just point your DNS to us and take advantage of our enterprise-grade network security services.

Advanced Protection
Our threat detection network draws from 21 different threat feeds from some of the largest research teams in the security space, acting as always-awake security guards. Any threat detected anywhere in our cloud is immediately blocked for that customer and all customers within our network.

Reduced Complexity
Secure Web Gateway can be configured in three easy steps and deployed within minutes from the CloudCare security platform. With CloudCare, you can easily deploy a range of security services, manage policies, check device status, and remediate issues – all from  a single pane of glass.

Increased Speed
Secure Web Gateway uses DNS-based lookups that take less than 2 milliseconds, so they won’t slow your network down like appliances and proxy servers. Network traffic, including remote users, is automatically directed to the nearest DNS server to deliver the highest performance experience.

How it Works
When an uncategorized web address is accessed via our service, a proxy of that content is staged and the site gets inspected for threats. Once this inspection is complete, the site gets categorized and classified in one of dozens of pre-configured categories, and this new intelligence then gets pushed out to the entire network.

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Advanced Protection
Our threat detection network draws from 21 different threat feeds from some of the largest research teams in the security space, acting as always-awake security guards. Any threat detected anywhere in our cloud is immediately blocked for that customer and all customers within our network.

Reduced Complexity
Secure Web Gateway can be configured in three easy steps and deployed within minutes from the CloudCare security platform. With CloudCare, you can easily deploy a range of security services, manage policies, check device status, and remediate issues – all from  a single pane of glass.

Increased Speed
Secure Web Gateway uses DNS-based lookups that take less than 2 milliseconds, so they won’t slow your network down like appliances and proxy servers. Network traffic, including remote users, is automatically directed to the nearest DNS server to deliver the highest performance experience.


Threat Security
Blocks malicious downloads and known malicious URLs from entering  the network.


Intelligent Proxying
Avast Business provides integrated, enterprise-grade endpoint and network security solutions for SMBs and IT service providers  Backed by the largest, most globally dispersed threat detection network, the Avast Business security
portfolio makes it easy and affordable to secure, manage, and monitor complex networks. The result is superior protection that businesses can count on.

For more information about our managed services and cybersecurity solutions, visit www.avast.com/business

Inspects, categorizes, and classifies a suspicious unknown site into a known good or bad site.
Intelligent SSL Inspection – Performs high-speed, intelligent analysis  of hard-to-inspect SSL traffic.
Cloud Sandbox – Analyzes suspicious files and URLs in a virtual environment to detect hidden malicious content for all EXE files and  DLL traffic.
Allow/Block Lists
Easily modify dozens of pre-configured, dynamic block/allow lists that get updated regularly as new sites get classified.

Content Filtering
Allows administrators  to choose the level of content filtering they want  to enforce and block requests based on their desired settings

Anycast DNS Server
Network traffic is automatically directed to the nearest data center to deliver the highest performance experience.

Avast Business Content Filtering is a flexible and highly effective way to help boost productivity and increase security by controlling your employees’ Internet usage. Be notified when a device visits sensitive websites with instant alerts via email. Set flexible policies for employees in the office, at home, or on the road while regulating access to specific sites.

Benefit to organisations

Increase Productivity
Ensure proper Internet usage by limiting or blocking access to websites based on  60 different categories including social, entertainment, and shopping sites.

Prevent Cyberthreats
Secure networks and users from cyberthreats with continuous evaluation of employees’ unknown or uncategorized web search results. Simplify Management
Use out-of-the-box templates to quickly and automatically deploy new filtering policies, or  create new default templates specifically for desktops and laptops that can be used by anyone.

V-routing Technology
Our patented V-routing technology does not require rerouting of traffic  or other methods that degrade internet speed.

Administrative Override
Administrators can manually override any policy that is blocking access  to a particular website once they have reviewed and deemed valid.

Automatic Site Blocking
Schedule Content Filtering to automatically block websites based  on pre-determined categories during work hours.

Dynamic Page Filtering
iCat Dynamic Filtering scans any pages not yet categorized in our database to ensure new threats don’t slip through.

Whitelist Policies
Create whitelist policies for websites that are required for business needs  to explicitly allow access regardless of reputation.

Alerting and Reporting
Receive instant email alerts and review detailed reports on device activities, including when the activity occurred, the domain where it occurred, the action taken, and the number of attempts on Block/Warn/Allow websites.

Supported Operating Systems

•    Windows 7 SP1 or higher (32-bit, 64-bit)
•    Windows 8/8.1, except RT & Starter  Edition (32-bit, 64-bit)
•    Windows 10, except Mobile &  IoT Core Edition (32-bit, 64-bit)
•    Windows Server 2008 (R2, 32-bit, 64-bit)
•    Windows Small Business  Server 2008, 2011
•    Windows Server 2012 r2

Minimum & Recommended  Hardware Requirements

•    1.5GHz Intel® Pentium® 4 or faster processor (or equivalent)
•    750 MB of free hard drive space  minimum (2 GB of free hard drive  space recommended)
•    512 MB of RAM (1GB recommended)
Supported Browsers
•    Mozilla Firefox
•    Google Chrome

Open Source Used  in CloudCare Agent

•    Open SSL: http://www.openssl.org
•    TinyXML: www.grinninglizard.com/tinyxml
•    Gloox: http://camaya.net/gloox
•    Zlib: http://www.zlib.net
•    SQLite: http://www.sqlite.org

Advanced antivirus protection for all devices

Antivirus is the first line of defense against today’s cyberthreats so it  needs to be powerful. Avast Business Antivirus is an award-winning,  full-featured antivirus solution for small and medium-sized businesses that keeps devices protected from today’s sophisticated cyberthreats – whether it’s a known ransomware variant or a never-seen-before, zero-day attack


Benefits for organisations

Block cyberthreats from entering your network

Our Web, File, Email, and Behavior Shields work together to actively analyze suspicious information coming and going from devices and block malicious files, dangerous websites, unusual behavior, unauthorized connections, and other threats.
Protect against zero-day attacks

All new, unknown, and rare malware variants found by our four-shield defense system are quarantined by CyberCapture, our proprietary technology that quickly scans suspicious files for deeper analysis in a safe cloud environment. Predict and identify new threats

400 million+ active users in our network provide a continual stream of data that helps us quickly identify and destroy any threat – and predict future ones. Across the globe, our immense cloud-based machine-learning engine is evolving and learning, making our solutions smarter, faster, and more powerful than ever.

Free Remote IT Control - Connect securely to client machines from any location to remotely resolve issues, perform tasks, reboot, transfer files, and within the organisation.