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Managed Web Security

Managed Web Security Services

MessageLabs' leading Web Security Services for anti-spyware, web viruses and URL filtering operates at the Internet level, intercepting viruses, spyware and other web-borne threats before they get anywhere near your network or your remote workforce. URL Filtering enables you to block URLs, monitor and control internet use, and enforce acceptable usage policies, keeping your employees and your business productive and compliant. MessageLabs Web Security Services operate at the Internet level, intercepting viruses, spyware and other web-borne threats before they get anywhere near your network. The two key security features include;

  • Anti spyware and anti virus protection to ensure your business network remains free from malicious code designed to monitor and steal user information, degrade network performance or worse.
  • URL filtering to enable you to block access to unwanted websites, monitor and control Internet use and enforce acceptable Internet usage policies, keeping your business productive and compliant.

Why MessageLabs Web Security Services?

Powered by MessageLabs our managed web security has a service level for 100% service availability, protecting your business against new and emerging web threats. There is no hardware to configure, or ongoing security updates or maintenance. Web Security Services can be deployed in minutes and is easily configurable to ensure corporate policies are enforced.

Managed Web Security Services

Web Security Features

  • Anti Spyware & virus blocking
  • Real time scaning of all web requests
  • URL Blocking of specific websites and/or website categories
  • Block access to specific files
  • Create flexible, time-based rules
  • Roaming user support for remote users
  • On-demand reporting

Web Security Benefits

  • Ensure your network is not infected by web based malware.
  • Ensure your organisation is not infected by viruses or spyware. Be confident that all web content (including larger files such as PDFs or media) is free from malicious code before they are delivered to users.
  • Block users visiting inappropriate websites - boost user productivity and stay compliant.
  • Save bandwidth by blocking heavy media files such as mp3s and mpegs.
  • URL Filtering improves user productivity by restricting access to certain websites during specific hours.
  • Provides malware protection and applies usage policy to users outside the corporate network
  • Instant visibility of data on latest web threats and current web usage statistics.

Approach - Web Security Services

MessageLabs Web Security Services incorporate a powerful range of multi-layered technologies that ensure total protection from external and internal web threats. Harnessing intelligence from its analysis of malicious links, our proprietary SkepticTM technology detects new and emerging threats. Best-of-breed commercial anti spyware and virus scanning engines provide impenetrable defences against known viruses and spyware. A URL categorisation database facilitates comprehensive URL filtering and controls web use in line with your acceptable use policy, blocking URL access to websites known to distribute spyware.

Web Security Services Information Exchange

  • All web traffic requests pass through the MessageLabs platform, hosted in secure data centres worldwide. Users outside the corporate network are offered the same protection and policies.
  • Each request is checked against your acceptable use policy, determining whether it is blocked or allowed to pass.
  • Different rules can be applied to different user groups and individuals.
  • If a request is allowed to pass, the relevant web page or file download is scanned for malware by SkepticTM and multiple, third party technologies.
  • If a virus or spyware is identified, access to the web page is denied.
  • ClientNet, a customised web portal , allows you to tailor rules and policy to your organisation's specific needs. 

Web Security Services- Advantages

Uncontrolled Internet use within your organisation exposes you to numerous risks. MessageLabs Web Security Services for Anti Spyware and URL filtering combines best of breed web scanners, with our proprietary Skeptic technology to give you 24x7x365 protection and control. Here are the advantages of using MessageLabs Web Security Services:

  • Benefit from multilayered web protection, incorporating the power of our proprietary Skeptic technology, to provide a service level for 100% capture of known web viruses
  • Policy enforcement and legal compliance with industry leading URL filtering, allowing you to control what people can do and see online, reducing the legal risks of staff internet misuse
  • Roaming User support extends the protection and policies of Web Security Services to remote workers connected to the internet whilst outside the corporate network
  • Managed web security service for anti spyware and URL filtering, frees up your IT staff to focus their attention on more strategic initiatives
  • 24x7x365 Customer support is included in the service fee and is available in an extensive range of languages worldwide
  • Quick and easy setup with a predictable and affordable total cost of ownership. No ongoing security updates or maintenance to manage


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