A new company is offering a defense filter in the cloud. Zscaler, a Santa Clara, Calif.-based company headed by a veteran safety measure entrepreneur, unveiled its hosted filtering service on Monday.

With the Zscaler service, companies don’t need to maintain their own Web filtering and protection software on their servers. Instead, as with many other areas of business software, the filter is based “in the cloud” — that is, on the World Wide Web.

Enforcing Company Policies

Zscaler

said its service “will change the way businesses allow users to access the World Wide Web by providing the right access to the right users, from any place and on any device.”

As with a Web proxy, the globally-based infrastructure screens all HTTP traffic incoming and outgoing, looking for malicious software. It can additionally scan for activity that could run counter to a company’s stated policies.

A company’s IT agency can use […]

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