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Magic Quadrant for Secure Web Gateways
28 May 2015 ID:G00267241 Analyst(s): Lawrence Orans, Peter Firstbrook VIEW SUMMARY The market for SWG solutions is still dominated by traditional onpremises appliances. But, the use of cloudbased services is growing rapidly, and advanced threat protection functionality remains an important differentiator.Market Definition/Description
Secure Web gateways (SWGs) utilize URL filtering, advanced threat defense, legacy malware protection and application control technologies to defend users from Internetborne threats and to help enterprises enforce Internet policy compliance. SWGs are implemented as onpremises appliances (hardware and virtual), cloudbased services or in hybrid mode (combined onpremises appliances and cloudbased services). Vendors continue to differ greatly in the maturity and features of their cloudbased services and in their ability to protect enterprises from advanced threats. As highlighted in "Market Guide for Network Sandboxing," SWG vendors are competing against firewall, intrusion prevention system (IPS) and unified threat management (UTM) vendors that also sell sandboxing as an optional feature. The firewall vendors, Palo Alto Networks in particular, have benefited from an early mover advantage in network sandboxing. In 2015, Gartner expects that SWG vendors will compete more aggressively against the firewall/IPS/UTM vendors, and against standalone sandboxing solutions, as more vendors offer network sandboxing solutions that integrate with SWGs. Organizations that are considering a move to SWGbased cloud services have many options, but will find significant differences during the sales process. Some vendors, such as Blue Coat and Zscaler, have strong partnerships with carriers and ISPs, which has proven to be a successful gotomarket strategy because service providers can upsell secure Internet access with bandwidth contracts. Other vendors, such as Barracuda Networks and Intel Security, have still not demonstrated the vision in building an effective sales channel for cloud services. The traditional valueadded reseller (VAR) channel that many vendors rely upon for SWG appliance sales has been largely ineffective in selling cloudbased services. Because of the requirement to defend against advanced threats, it is no longer enough for a cloud based SWG to only offer the traditional SWG services (for example, URL filtering and basic malware detection). Enterprises that connect remote offices (and headquarters offices) directly to the Internet, without backhauling traffic to a centralized data center, will need cloudbased advanced threat services. Vendors that offer cloudbased SWGs, and only offer onpremises appliancebased advanced threat products, need to quickly port their advanced threat offerings to a cloud platform and deliver this functionality as a service. Vendors such as Blue Coat, Intel Security and others fall into this category.Magic Quadrant
Figure 1. Magic Quadrant for Secure Web Gateways EVALUATION CRITERIA DEFINITIONS Ability to Execute Product/Service: Core goods and services offered by the vendor for the defined market. This includes current product/service capabilities, quality, feature sets, skills and so on, whether offered natively or through OEM agreements/partnerships as defined in the market definition and detailed in the subcriteria. Overall Viability: Viability includes an assessment of the overall organization's financial health, the financial and practical success of the business unit, and the likelihood that the individual business unit will continue investing in the product, will continue offering the product and will advance the state of the art within the organization's portfolio of products. Sales Execution/Pricing: The vendor's capabilities in all presales activities and the structure that supports them. This includes deal management, pricing and negotiation, presales support, and the overall effectiveness of the sales channel. Market Responsiveness/Record: Ability to respond, change direction, be flexible and achieve competitive success as opportunities develop, competitors act, customer needs evolve and market dynamics change. This criterion also considers the vendor's history of responsiveness. Marketing Execution: The clarity, quality, creativity and efficacy of programs designed to deliver the organization's message to influence the market, promote the brand and business, increase awareness of the products, and establish a positive identification with the product/brand and organization in the minds of buyers. This "mind share" can be driven by a combination of publicity, promotional initiatives, thought leadership, word of mouth and sales activities. Customer Experience: Relationships, products and services/programs that enable clients to be successful with the products evaluated. Specifically, this includes the ways customers receive technical support or account support. This can also include ancillary tools, customer support programs (and the quality thereof), availability of user groups, servicelevel agreements and so on. Operations: The ability of the organization to meet its goals and commitments. Factors include the quality of the organizational structure, including skills, experiences, programs, systems and other vehicles that enable the organization to operate effectively and efficiently on an ongoing basis. Completeness of Vision Market Understanding: Ability of the vendor to understand buyers' wants and needs and to translate those into products and services. Vendors that show the highest degree of vision listen to and understand buyers' wants and needs, and can shape or enhance those with their added vision. Marketing Strategy: A clear, differentiated set of messages consistently communicated throughout the organization and externalized through the website, advertising, customer programs and positioning statements. Sales Strategy: The strategy for selling products that uses the appropriate network of direct and indirect sales, marketing, service, and communication affiliates that extend the scope and depth of market reach, skills, expertise, technologies, services and the customer base. Offering (Product) Strategy: The vendor's approach to product development and delivery that emphasizes6/22/2015
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Source: Gartner (May 2015)Vendor Strengths and Cautions
Barracuda Networks
Based in Campbell, California, Barracuda provides a broad array of costeffective network and application security products, as well as storage and productivity solutions. Barracuda's Web Filter appliances are complemented by its cloudbased proxy service (Web Security Service). Barracuda customers typically implement its appliances in transparent bridge mode to view all network traffic, but the appliances can also be implemented in proxy mode. Barracuda is transitioning the policy enforcement model of its cloud service from cloudbased enforcement to agentbased enforcement (based on a cloud lookup mechanism). Barracuda licenses Lastline's cloudbased sandbox technology and has integrated the solution with its firewall products. Integration with Barracuda's SWG products will be delivered later in 2015. This year, Barracuda moves from the Challengers quadrant to the Niche Players quadrant, due in part to its stagnant market share. Its 2009 acquisition of cloudbased SWG services vendor Purewire has added only marginal revenue growth. Barracuda's Web Filter appliances are good candidates for SMBs and costconscious enterprises. Strengths Barracuda's Instant Replacement program, which provides nextbusinessday shipping of replacement units, includes a free appliance replacement unit every four years. Application control is comprehensive and includes granular social media controls and social media archiving. Inline deployments of Barracuda's SWG enable it to filter all ports and protocols. Barracuda provides a free, lightweight mobile data management capability to simplify the deployment of its safe browser and the management of policies on mobile devices running Apple iOS and Android. Barracuda references commented favorably regarding the ease of deployment and management of the Web Filter appliances. Cautions Dedicated focus on SMBs typically results in solutions that are missing features favored by large enterprise customers. Lack of support for authentication via Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) is an example of this tradeoff. At the time of this writing, malware detection techniques on Barracuda's SWG appliances are primarily signaturebased. There is very little realtime analysis of Web content, such as static code analysis. Barracuda's advanced threat defense strategy is heavily dependent on the technology that it has licensed from Lastline, which is a small company. If Lastline gets acquired by another security vendor, then Barracuda may need to revisit its advanced threat defense strategy. differentiation, functionality, methodology and feature sets as they map to current and future requirements. Business Model: The soundness and logic of the vendor's underlying business proposition. Vertical/Industry Strategy: The vendor's strategy to direct resources, skills and offerings to meet the specific needs of individual market segments, including vertical markets. Innovation: Direct, related, complementary and synergistic layouts of resources, expertise or capital for investment, consolidation, defensive or preemptive purposes. Geographic Strategy: The vendor's strategy to direct resources, skills and offerings to meet the specific needs of geographies outside the "home" or native geography, either directly or through partners, channels and subsidiaries as appropriate for that geography and market.6/22/2015
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Blue Coat
Based in Sunnyvale, California, Blue Coat offers appliancebased SWGs and a cloudbased SWG service. In addition to its SWG solutions, Blue Coat also offers these appliancebased products: a network sandbox (Malware Analysis Appliance), a network forensics tool (Security Analytics Platform), and a malware detection appliance (Content Analysis System) that analyzes traffic forwarded to it by Blue Coat proxies. A partnership with AT&T enables the carrier to resell Blue Coat's cloudbased SWG service. In May 2015, private equity firm Bain Capital completed its acquisition of Blue Coat from Thoma Bravo (also a private equity firm) for $2.4 billion. Bain Capital's stated intent is to prepare Blue Coat for a return to public markets. Blue Coat's appliances are good candidates for most large enterprise customers, particularly those requiring highly scalable SWGs. Blue Coat's cloud service is a good option for most enterprises. Strengths The ProxySG is the strongest proxy in the market in terms of breadth of protocols and the number of advanced features. It supports a broad set of protocols as well as extensive authentication and directory integration options. Blue Coat's hybrid offering (cloud service and onpremises appliances) enables operations teams to manage policies from a single console (although policies can be pushed only in one direction — from the cloud to onpremises appliances). By integrating the detection capabilities of the Malware Analysis Appliance with the forensics capabilities of the Security Analytics Platform, Blue Coat gives security operations teams the ability to shorten the incident response window. Blue Coat provides strong support for SSL. All ProxySG models include SSL hardware assist to offload processing from the main CPU. The standalone SSL Visibility Appliance can be used to decrypt SSL traffic and feed it to Blue Coat and nonBlue Coat security solutions (for example, data loss prevention [DLP] and network sandboxes). Cautions Because Blue Coat's advanced threat defense solution requires multiple components, it is expensive. The ProxySG does not deposit suspicious files directly into the Malware Analysis Appliance. Customers must purchase the Content Analysis System if they want to automatically detect suspicious files and analyze them in the Malware Analysis Appliance. Blue Coat lacks a cloudbased sandbox. Customers that have migrated to a complete Blue Coat cloudbased SWG (no onpremises SWGs) are unable to use network sandboxing technology to detect threats and targeted attacks. The ProxySG cannot monitor all network traffic (which is useful for detecting outbound malware) when implemented in explicit proxy mode, which is how it is most commonly deployed.Cisco
Cisco, based in San Jose, California, is a leading supplier of networking infrastructure to large enterprises. It offers onpremises appliances, the Web Security Appliance (WSA) and a cloudbased service, Cloud Web Security (CWS). Recent acquisitions include Sourcefire (2013), Cognitive Security (2013) and ThreatGRID (2014). Sourcefire's primary focus was on intrusion prevention. Cognitive's focus was on threat analytics, and ThreatGRID was offering a cloudbased sandbox. This year, Cisco moved from the Leaders quadrant into the Challengers quadrant, due in part to its slow progress in developing a hybrid (onpremises equipment and cloudbased services) strategy. By not offering a true hybrid solution, Cisco is missing an opportunity to help its WSA customers selectively add cloud services and to provide a smooth transition to a hybrid or allcloud offering. Cisco also lost Completeness of Vision points due to nonuniform threat detection capabilities between its onpremises and cloudbased services. As noted in the Cautions section, Cognitive Threat Analytics (CTA) is integrated only with Cisco's cloud service. It has not yet been integrated with Cisco's appliances, even though Cisco acquired Cognitive Security in February 2013. Cisco's WSA is a good solution for most midsize or large enterprises, while the CWS service is a good option for most enterprises. Strengths The WSA provides multiple security layers on a single appliance. Adaptive scanning directs suspicious content to the antimalware engine that is best optimized to scan the content. Advanced Malware Protection (AMP) technology from Sourcefire provides file reputation, file analysis and retrospective alerts (to receive maximum value from AMP, Cisco recommends installing the FireAMP Connector agent on endpoints). The ThreatGRID technology will improve AMP's sandboxing capability once it has been fully integrated. The Layer 4 Traffic Monitor feature on the WSA enables visibility across all ports and protocols by connecting to a Switched Port Analyzer (SPAN) mirrored port on a LAN switch. By monitoring all traffic (not just Web traffic), Cisco improves its malware detection capability. The CWS service benefits from a number of traffic redirection options that are integrated into existing Cisco products. The Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) firewall, Integrated Services Router (ISR) Generation 2 and WSA all support Cisco's "connector" software, which directs traffic to the CWS service. Mobile platform support is a strength of the CWS service for customers that have already implemented Cisco's popular AnyConnect client. The cloud service supports Windows, Mac OS X, Apple iOS, Android, Windows Phone 8 and BlackBerry. Cautions Despite its obvious network expertise and relationships, Cisco has not demonstrated significant focus on the SWG market. Overall market share (onpremises appliances and cloud services) has been flat since 2009, the year that Cisco acquired ScanSafe. Cisco's cloud service has a6/22/2015
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surprisingly small global footprint (15 countries) given Cisco's resources and the number of years it has been in the SWG market. Newer rivals have been more aggressive in global expansion. Cisco has been slow to integrate its cloudbased SWG with its onpremises SWG (IronPort acquisition in 2007). Customers seeking a hybrid cloud/onpremises solution will need two consoles. The consoles lack automated policy synchronization (to share policies between cloud and onpremises users). The CTA service, which detects threats based on Web log analysis, is not available to WSA customers. Only CWS customers can use the CTA functionality.ContentKeeper
ContentKeeper is based in Australia, where it has many large government, education and commercial customers. It offers a family of SWG appliances, which deploy in transparent bridge mode, and it also provides a hosted cloudbased service. ContentKeeper's advanced threat solutions can be implemented onpremises or in its hosted cloud service. ContentKeeper has been expanding its presence in North America. Its solutions are a good option for midsize or large organizations and for K12 schools in supported geographies. Strengths The bridgebased Secure Internet Gateway has been designed for high throughput. Reference customers report throughput up to 5 Gbps. Strong support for mobile devices enables ContentKeeper to appeal to K12 school districts and other organizations that issue tablets to end users. ContentKeeper appliances support the ability to inspect SSL traffic. Reference customers commented favorably on ContentKeeper's service and support. Cautions ContentKeeper lacks a shared, multitenant, IPsecbased cloud SWG service. It provides a hosted cloud offering, where customers run virtual appliances hosted in Amazon's cloud service (and in some ContentKeepermanaged data centers). Hosted offerings do not scale as dynamically as shared multitenant clouds. ContentKeeper has yet to earn recognition as a leading advanced threat defense company. Prospective customers should carefully test the efficacy of its advanced threat capabilities against competing solutions. The workflow tools for responding to malware incidents need improvement. The lack of severity indicators on ContentKeeper's dashboard makes it difficult to prioritize malware alerts.iboss
Iboss is a privately held company based in San Diego, California. It offers a family of appliancebased platforms, which are typically deployed in transparent bridge mode. It also offers a cloudbased service. In 2014, iboss announced FireSphere, an internally developed cloudbased service for malware detection. Iboss is a good option for midsize or large enterprises and for K12 schools in supported geographies. Strengths The FireSphere service combines multiple malware detection capabilities, including NetFlow analysis and sandboxing technology. Full SSL content inspection is provided agentless at the gateway, or with an optional agentbased solution on endpoints. The agent is a scalable approach that relieves the iboss appliance of the burden of managing certificates and of terminating and decrypting SSL traffic. Bandwidth controls are very flexible. For example, bandwidth quotas can be applied to a specific organizational unit in Active Directory, and they also can be assigned to a specific domain. Iboss customers commented on the strength of its reporting capabilities. Cautions Prospective customers of iboss' cloudbased SWG service should test it carefully. Gartner rarely sees customers adopting iboss as a pureplay cloud service. Most implementations of the iboss cloud service are in hybrid mode (deployed in conjunction with an iboss appliance). The iboss cloudbased service lacks support for SAML, a popular authentication technique that many enterprises already have adopted to authenticate users to SaaS applications. Iboss has only a limited set of customers outside North America. Prospective customers outside North America should validate that iboss partners are qualified to provide sales and technical support.Intel Security (McAfee)
Intel Security, based in Santa Clara, California, offers a family of onpremises SWG appliances (McAfee Web Protection) and cloudbased SWG services (McAfee SaaS Web Protection). The SWG appliances are most commonly implemented as proxies, although they also can be deployed in other modes, including inline transparent bridges. Intel Security also offers an appliancebased sandbox (McAfee Advanced Threat Defense). This year, Intel Security moved from the Leaders quadrant into the Challengers quadrant, due in part to its lack of Completeness of Vision in building a strong sales and distribution channel for its cloudbased service. For example, it lacks strong partnerships with carriers and Internet service providers (ISPs), which have proved to be highly effective sales channels for cloudbased SWG services. Intel Security also lost Completeness of Vision points because it has been slow to emphasize networkbased traffic redirection to its cloud, while focusing more strongly on endpointbased6/22/2015
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redirection (via the McAfee Client Proxy agent). The industry trend is the opposite: The primary driver of cloudbased SWG services is for enabling directtonet connectivity from remote offices (via network based redirection), whereas protecting mobile devices is a distant secondary driver. Intel Security's appliance solutions are good candidates for most enterprise customers, particularly those that are already McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator users. Prospective customers of the cloud service should test it carefully. Strengths The McAfee Web Protection appliance integrates with the Advanced Threat Defense appliance. It automatically deposits suspicious files in the sandbox for analysis. McAfee Web Protection has strong malware protection due to its onbox browser code emulation capabilities. The solution provides the ability to adjust the sensitivity of malware detection. A rule based policy engine enables flexible policy creation. Intel Security has a good implementation of a hybrid cloud/onpremises solution. While policy synchronization is only unidirectional (from onpremises to the cloud), flexible controls enable some policies to be synced, whereas others are not. Log file synchronization can be configured in specified time intervals. Intel Security provides strong support for scanning SSL traffic with its McAfee Web Protection appliance and its cloudbased service. For example, the solutions can be configured to automatically enforce SSL certificate decisions so that end users don't have the option to accept an unknown or expired certificate. Cautions Intel Security lacks a cloudbased sandbox. Customers that have migrated completely to an all cloudbased service (no onpremises SWGs) are unable to use Intel Security's network sandboxing technology to detect threats and targeted attacks. Some of Intel Security's reference customers reported dissatisfaction with its cloud service. Adoption of the service has been slow due to Intel Security being late with key features, such as IPsec support (available since January 2015). Intel Security also has been slow to grow its global footprint (13 data centers as of 2014). Intel Security's preferred approach for protecting Apple iOS and Android devices via its cloud service uses proxy settings. This approach can be easily defeated by knowledgeable users. The lack of a strong partnership with a leading ISP or telecom carrier limits Intel Security's ability to target large enterprises with its cloudbased service.Sangfor
Sangfor is a network optimization and security vendor based in China. Approximately half of its revenue comes from its SWG products; the remaining revenue comes from its nextgeneration firewall, VPN, WAN optimization controllers and application delivery controller products. Sangfor's SWG comes in a hardware appliance form factor, and it is implemented as an inline transparent bridge. In 2014, Sangfor enhanced its SWG by adding DLP support and wireless networking functions and enhanced its application recognition capabilities. The company offers two versions of its SWG product: one aimed at the Chinese market, and one aimed at Englishspeaking countries. Nearly all the company's revenue comes from the Asia/Pacific region. Sangfor is a candidate for organizations that are based in China and in supported countries in the Asia/Pacific region. Strengths Sangfor has strong application control features. It can apply granular policies to Weibo, Facebook and other Webbased applications, and it also has developed network signatures to block port evasive applications like BitTorrent and Skype. Sangfor's SWG includes a wireless controller, which is capable of managing Sangfor wireless access points. The controller includes a feature to detect and block unauthorized WiFi hot spots in an enterprise wireless environment. Sangfor offers a cloudbased sandbox. Sangfor's SWG automatically feeds suspicious objects to the sandbox. Sangfor's inline transparent bridge mode enables flexible and granular bandwidth control capabilities. Bandwidth utilization parameters can be specified for uplink and downlink traffic. Cautions Sangfor does not offer a cloudbased SWG service. The console dashboard for malware detection is basic and lacks severity indicators to prioritize alerts.Sophos
Based in the U.K., Sophos provides a broad range of network and application gateways and an endpoint protection platform that it is converging into a unified security solution aimed primarily at small or midmarket enterprises. The Sophos Web Appliance (SWA) can be deployed in proxy or transparent in line bridge mode, and Sophos offers SWG functionality integrated into its UTM appliances. Sophos' acquisition of Mojave Networks (2014) forms the basis of its multitenant cloud Web filtering service. Midsize organizations, particularly those that are Sophos desktop customers, should consider Sophos' SWG solutions. Strengths Ease of use is a key design criterion for Sophos. Features include automated network and6/22/2015
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directory discovery, contextual help functions, and simple policy configuration. Sophos is an established player in the malware detection market. The SWA uses Sophos developed technology to perform a preexecution analysis of all downloaded code, including binary files and JavaScript. The appliance also provides outbound command and control (C&C) traffic detection with linkage to known malwareremoval tools. Sophos places strong emphasis on service and support. It optionally monitors customers' appliances and provides alerts for critical hardware conditions, such as high temperatures or faulty disk drives. Mobile users who are running the Sophos endpoint protection platform benefit from DNSbased enforcement of URL filtering policy and logging when clients are offLAN. The Mojave acquisition provides Sophos with a dedicated cloudfiltering network. Cautions Sophos' focus on ease of use and outofthebox functionality can be limiting for largeenterprise customers that value more granular controls. For example, the Mojave cloud is capable of integrating only with a single directory, and reference customers noted that advanced reporting and multidestination syslog support were lacking. Sophos is in midtransition to a more unified offering. Capabilities are vastly different between the three primary offerings (UTM, cloud and SWG appliances), and integration is still in development. For example, proxy appliances and cloud offerings are incapable of inspecting nonproxied traffic, while UTM appliances can inspect all ports and protocols, but have fewer advanced SWG functions. Sophos does not yet offer a sandboxing solution for advanced targeted threats.Symantec
Symantec is based in Mountain View, California. It has two offerings in the SWG market: (1) the Symantec.cloud service; and (2) the Symantec Web Gateway appliance, which may be deployed as an inline transparent bridge, as a proxy or in SPAN mode. Symantec continues to work toward delivering the advanced threat protection product and service suite that it announced in May 2014. In September 2014, Symantec announced the appointment of Michael A. Brown as the company's CEO (he had been serving as interim CEO). In October 2014, Symantec announced that it will split into two publicly traded companies — one selling security software, and the other providing data management. The security company will retain the Symantec name, and Brown will continue to lead it. Symantec's cloudbased SWG offering is a good option for SMBs that do not need a hybrid approach. Although the appliance may be appropriate for some SMBs, it has significant limitations for large enterprises. Strengths Symantec.cloud provides strong DLP support (a separate license is required) with the ability to configure flexible policies. Support for multiple languages broadens Symantec.cloud's appeal in many nonEnglishspeaking countries. Symantec's SWG offerings benefit from its strong malware research labs and its Insight file reputation engine. Cautions Symantec has not integrated its cloudbased SWG (MessageLabs acquisition of 2008) with its on premises SWG (Mi5 Networks acquisition of 2009). Customers seeking a hybrid cloud/onpremises solution will need two consoles, and the consoles lack policy synchronization and log synchronization. Symantec lacks a network sandbox and other technologies for detecting advanced threats and targeted attacks. Symantec's cloud service does not support IPsec or Generic Routing Encapsulation (GRE) tunnels, the two most common techniques for redirecting traffic from remote offices to an SWG cloud service. Symantec's strategy for supporting mobile devices needs improvement. Its Smart Connect agent is a strong solution for Windows laptops, but Symantec does not offer a similar agent for Mac OS X. Proxy autoconfiguration (PAC) files, which knowledgeable users can easily subvert, are needed to redirect traffic from Apple iOS, Android and Mac OS X devices to the Symantec.cloud SWG service.Trend Micro
Based in Tokyo, Trend Micro ("Trend") is a provider of endpoint protection, content protection and application gateway solutions. Trend offers an onpremises virtual appliance solution (InterScan Web Security Virtual Appliance [IWSVA]) and a cloud service (InterScan Web Security as a Service [IWSaaS]). IWS can be implemented as a transparent bridge or a proxy, and can be optionally enhanced by Trend Micro's Deep Discovery network sandbox. Trend Micro is a candidate primarily for organizations that already have a strategic relationship with the company. Strengths The IWSVA and IWSaaS solutions are strengthened by Trend Micro's global threat intelligence, script analyzer capabilities and botnet detection. Optional offerings include the Deep Discovery sandbox for onpremises malware analysis and the Damage Cleanup Services for remediation of compromised endpoints. A single licensing model allows customers to mix cloud and onpremises solutions, and a specific hybrid console provides an integration point for synchronizing policies and reporting for cloud and onpremises users.6/22/2015
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Application control is strong with IWSVA, and includes the ability to set timeofday and bandwidth quota policies. Trend Micro's cloudbased SWG service has good geographic coverage for the Asia/Pacific region. Cautions The IWSaaS cloud service is missing some enterpriseclass features, such as cloudbased malware sandboxing, security information and event management (SIEM) integration and DLP support. Data centers are limited to nine countries. Outbound malware detection lacks detailed information on threats. Trend Micro has three consoles for its SWG offerings: an onpremisesonly console for IWSVA, a cloudonly console for IWSaaS and a separate console for the hybrid offering. This approach adds operational complexity as enterprises grow and evolve with the Trend Micro offering.Trustwave
Trustwave is based in Chicago. It offers a diversified security product and managed security services portfolio, including application security, DLP, email security, Web application firewall, SIEM and network access control. In addition, it offers numerous managed security services, including incident response and penetration testing. Its Secure Web Gateway appliance is a proxybased gateway that specializes in realtime malware detection. Trustwave's SWG solutions are good options for customers that already have one or more Trustwave products or services, or for those that are seeking an SWGmanaged service. In April 2015, Singtel announced its intent to acquire Trustwave and operate it as a stand alone business. As of May 2015, the deal is pending regulatory approval. Strengths The Trustwave Managed AntiMalware Service provides deployment, policy management, security monitoring and alerting as a service for onpremises SWG installations. Research and insight from incident response investigations and penetration tests enhance Trustwave's strong realtime browser code emulation, which is the primary technology in its malware detection strategy. Application control support for instant messaging (IM) and social media allows granular policy options. Application control support for Dropbox, Google Drive, Microsoft OneDrive, Apple iCloud Drive and Box enables granular policy controls for uploading, downloading, sharing, and deleting files and folders. Trustwave's DLP engine is fully integrated with its Secure Web Gateway product. Cautions Trustwave does not offer a cloudonly SWG service. Trustwave lacks the network sandboxing capabilities that many SWG vendors offer as optional features. Support for mobile devices (iOS and Android) is weak due to Trustwave's lack of an IPsecbased multitenant gateway in its hybrid service offering. The dashboard console is weaker than many competing offerings. It lacks severity indicators to prioritize malware alerts. Dashboard panels provide only limited customization. The Secure Web Gateway product lacks the ability to block portevasive applications, such as BitTorrent and Skype. Portevasive outbound traffic to commandandcontrol centers cannot be blocked either.Websense
Websense, which is based in Austin, Texas, is owned by private equity firm Vista Equity Partners. Websense offers SWG appliances (hardware and software) and a cloudbased service. It also offers a cloudbased network sandboxing solution, known as the Web Sandbox Module, which was developed in house. Websense appliances are good options for midsize enterprises, and its cloud service is a good option for most enterprises. In April 2015, Raytheon entered into a definitive agreement with Vista Equity Partners to form a new company, combining Websense with its Raytheon Cyber Products business unit. At the time of this writing, the deal is pending regulatory approval. Strengths Websense has a strong offering for organizations that are interested in a hybrid SWG strategy (onpremises and cloudbased). Its Triton management console provides a common point for policy management, reporting and logging in hybrid environments. Websense's Triton APWeb automatically deposits suspicious files in the cloudbased Web Sandbox Module. Websense uses its DLP technology in its appliances and cloud service to inspect suspicious outbound traffic patterns. This feature uses deep packet inspection, and it does not require an additional licensing fee. Websense has a good strategy for mobile support. A Websense client for Windows and Mac OS X endpoints handles traffic redirection and authentication to the Websense cloud service. AirWatch customers will benefit from an integration with Websense that provisions certificates on mobile devices (Apple iOS and Android) and directs traffic to the Websense cloud (via IPsec) when the user generates Web traffic. Cautions The console for the cloudonly service (Cloud Triton Manager) is different from the console that is6/22/2015
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used to manage the hybrid and onpremises solutions (Triton Manager). Customers that begin with a cloudonly service and add VSeries appliances later would need to switch to the Triton Manager console. Gartner rarely sees Websense's X10G, a bladeserver appliance aimed at large enterprises, in competitive bids. Enterprises that are considering the X10G should carefully check references. The lack of a strong partnership with an ISP or telecom carrier limits Websense's ability to target large enterprises with its cloudbased service. As Websense forms a new company and integrates technology from Raytheon, its increased focus on threat defense may result in reduced focus on its core SWG functionality.Zscaler
Zscaler, which is based in San Jose, California, is a pureplay provider of cloudbased SWG services. In 2014, Zscaler added network sandboxing and nextgeneration firewalling services. Zscaler also offers a DNSbased Web filtering service. Zscaler continues to be the fastestgrowing vendor in this market, as well as one of the most innovative vendors. Zscaler is a good option for most enterprises that are seeking a cloudbased SWG. Strengths Zscaler applies all its malware detection engines to all content, including SSL traffic that it decrypts via SSL, regardless of site reputation. This approach yields uptodate malware ratings on websites. Zscaler has the largest global cloud footprint, with more than 100 enforcement nodes in 30 countries. Zscaler leads the SWG market in several cloud innovations, including colocating and direct peering with popular cloud services (such as Amazon, Microsoft, Salesforce and Akamai) in order to reduce latency. It provides flexible implementation options by offering a broad set of choices for traffic redirection and authentication. It was the first to expose its cloud uptime and event statistics to the public via its trust.zscaler.com portal. Zscaler's updated console display (based on HTML5) enables rolebased administrative access. Views can be customized according to administrative rights and privileges. An optional streaming log service provides nearrealtime export of logs from the cloud to on premises servers, where they can be analyzed by a SIEM solution. Enterprises that have more than one SIEM solution can filter log events from the Zscaler console and direct log entries to specific SIEM solutions. Cautions Zscaler encourages the use of PAC files for Windows and Mac OS X systems for mobile employees, but knowledgeable users can subvert PAC file traffic redirection. Also, portevasive applications (such as Skype, BitTorrent and some malware) will not be forwarded to the Zscaler network from endpoints that rely only on PAC files. The management console lacks severity indicators to prioritize outbound malware alerts. Also, information to aid in remediation is lacking. Zscaler offers a cloudbased nextgeneration firewall as an addon to its SWG service. The firewall service is not intended to replace enterprise firewalls protecting corporate data centers. It is primarily suitable for branch and remote offices and roaming laptops.Vendors Added and Dropped
We review and adjust our inclusion criteria for Magic Quadrants and MarketScopes as markets change. As a result of these adjustments, the mix of vendors in any Magic Quadrant or MarketScope may change over time. A vendor's appearance in a Magic Quadrant or MarketScope one year and not the next does not necessarily indicate that we have changed our opinion of that vendor. It may be a reflection of a change in the market and, therefore, changed evaluation criteria, or of a change of focus by that vendor.Added
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These criteria must be met for vendors to be included in this Magic Quadrant: Vendors must provide all three components of an SWG: URL filtering Antimalware protection Web application control capabilities Pureplay URL filtering solutions have been excluded. The vendor's URL filtering component must be primarily focused on categorizing Englishlanguage websites. Vendors must have at least $15 million in SWG product revenue in their latest complete fiscal years.6/22/2015
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Vendors must have an installed base of at least 2,000 customers or aggregate endpoint coverage of at least 5 million seats. UTM devices and nextgeneration firewall devices that offer URL filtering and malware protection have been excluded. This Magic Quadrant analyzes solutions that are optimized for SWG functionality. Vendors that license complete SWG products and services from other vendors have been excluded. For example, ISPs and other service providers that offer cloudbased SWG services licensed from other providers have been excluded.Evaluation Criteria
Ability to Execute
Product or service: This is an evaluation of the features and functions of the vendor's SWG solution. Malware detection and advanced threat defense functionality will be weighted heavily to reflect the significance that enterprises place on these capabilities. Overall viability: This includes an assessment of the overall organization's financial health, the financial and practical success of the business unit, and the likelihood that the business unit will continue to invest in the product. Sales execution/pricing: This is a comparison of pricing relative to the market. Market responsiveness/record: This criterion reflects how quickly the vendor has spotted a market shift and produced a product that potential customers are looking for; it is also the size of the vendor's installed base relative to the amount of time the product has been on the market. Marketing execution: This is the effectiveness of the vendor's marketing programs, and its ability to create awareness and mind share in the SWG market. Customer experience: This is the quality of the customer experience based on reference calls and Gartner client teleconferences. Table 1. Ability to Execute Evaluation Criteria Evaluation Criteria Weighting Product or Service High Overall Viability High Sales Execution/Pricing Not Rated Market Responsiveness/Record Medium Marketing Execution Medium Customer Experience Medium Operations Not Rated Source: Gartner (May 2015)Completeness of Vision
Market understanding: This is the SWG vendor's ability to understand buyers' needs and translate them into products and services. Sales strategy: This is the vendor's strategy for selling to its target audience, and includes an analysis of the appropriate mix of direct and indirect sales channels. Offering (product) strategy: This is an evaluation of the vendor's strategic product direction and its roadmap for SWG. The product strategy should address trends that are reflected in Gartner's client inquiries. Innovation: This criterion includes product leadership and the ability to deliver features and functions that distinguish the vendor from its competitors. Innovation in areas such as advanced threat defense and cloudbased services was rated highly because these capabilities are evolving quickly and are highly differentiated among the vendors. Geographic strategy: This is the vendor's strategy for penetrating geographies outside its home or native market. Table 2. Completeness of Vision Evaluation Criteria Evaluation Criteria Weighting Market Understanding Medium Marketing Strategy Not Rated Sales Strategy Medium Offering (Product) Strategy High6/22/2015
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Business Model Not Rated Vertical/Industry Strategy Not Rated Innovation High Geographic Strategy Low Source: Gartner (May 2015)Quadrant Descriptions
Leaders
Leaders are highmomentum vendors (based on sales and mind share growth) with established track records in SWGs, as well as with vision and business investments indicating that they are well positioned for the future. In addition to offering strong SWG products and/or services, Leaders have built effective sales and distribution channels for their entire product portfolio. Leaders that offer on premises and cloud services have recognized the strategic importance of a twopronged sales and distribution channel. They have established a traditional VAR channel to sell onpremises appliances, and they have also demonstrated the ability, usually through partnerships with ISPs and carriers, to sell cloud services.Challengers
Challengers are established vendors that offer SWG products. Challengers' products perform well for a significant market segment, but may not show feature richness or particular innovation. In the SWG market, Challengers may also lack an established distribution channel to optimally target customers for cloudbased services. Buyers of Challengers' products and services typically have less complex requirements and/or are motivated by strategic relationships with these vendors rather than requirements.Visionaries
Visionaries are distinguished by technical and/or product innovation, but have not yet achieved the record of execution in the SWG market to give them the high visibility of Leaders — or they lack the corporate resources of Challengers. Buyers should expect stateoftheart technology from Visionaries, but be wary of a strategic reliance on these vendors and closely monitor their viability. Visionaries represent good acquisition candidates. Challengers that may have neglected technology innovation and/or vendors in related markets are likely buyers of Visionaries' products. Thus, these vendors represent a slightly higher risk of business disruptions.Niche Players
Niche Players' products typically are solid solutions for one of the three primary SWG requirements — URL filtering, malware and application control — but they lack the comprehensive features of Visionaries and the market presence or resources of Challengers. Customers that are aligned with the focus of a Niche Players vendor often find such provider's offerings to be "best of need" solutions. Niche Players may also have a strong presence in a specific geographic region, but lack a worldwide presence.Context
The URL filtering aspect of SWGs has become a commodity, and enterprises are now focusing on security features as important criteria in vendor selection. Because of these market trends, this 2015 Magic Quadrant places a strong emphasis on malware detection, particularly advanced threat detection. Implementation options are another important consideration when selecting vendors. For example, enterprises that expect to remain completely with onpremises appliances can select from the largest set of vendors. Enterprises that expect to migrate completely to an allcloud service option have a slightly smaller set of choices. Enterprises that expect to require a hybrid approach have the smallest set of options because few vendors have truly integrated their onpremises products with their cloud based services.Market Overview
Although cloudbased SWG services are a source of innovation and rapid growth, the overall SWG market is still dominated by the sale of onpremises appliances. Gartner estimates that, in 2014, 72% of the revenue in the $1.44 billion market was attributed to appliances, and the other 28% was attributed to cloud services. In 2013, Gartner estimates that the 77% of the market was attributed to appliances and 23% was attributed to cloud services. The overall market grew approximately 10% during 2014, and we anticipate that the market will grow 8% to 10% in 2015. This year, the Visionaries quadrant remains empty again. Because of the growth in cloudbased SWG services, we heavily weighted these services when scoring the Completeness of Vision criteria. Vendors that have a strong strategy for their cloud service and that also have a cloudfocused sales and distribution channel scored well in Completeness of Vision. Strategies for SWG cloud services need to include a cloudbased advanced threat defense service. Successful sales and distribution channels include carriers and ISPs because they have proven to be effective partners in selling cloud SWG services. It's challenging for vendors to develop a strong cloud service strategy and a strong cloud sales and distribution channel. None of the Niche Players in the 2014 version of the Magic Quadrant improved enough in Completeness of Vision scoring to move into the Visionaries quadrant this year. © 2015 Gartner, Inc. and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Gartner is a registered trademark of Gartner, Inc. or its affiliates. This publication may not be reproduced or distributed in any form without Gartner’s prior written permission. If you are authorized to access this publication, your use of it is subject to the Usage Guidelines for Gartner Services posted on gartner.com. The information contained in this publication has been obtained from sources believed to be reliable. Gartner disclaims all warranties as to the accuracy, completeness or adequacy of such information and shall have no liability for errors, omissions or inadequacies in such information. This6/22/2015
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