Cisco Cloud Web Security

Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) Delivery of Security

Cisco Cloud Web Security (CWS) delivers exceptional web security and control for organizations of all sizes, with multiple deployment options and tight integration into your Cisco data center, network, or branch office.

Features and Capabilities

Web security threats have become more sophisticated, targeted, and harder to avoid. Yet the use of personal devices and cloud-delivered services limit your visibility and control. With Cisco Cloud Web Security, customers gain a highly distributed security perimeter that can enable new applications. CWS also protects against advanced persistent threats (APTs), and supports granular policy control, all delivered as a software service.

Reduce Costs

Move to an operating expenses (OpEx) model that lowers complexity for IT, while getting more out of your existing Cisco investment:

Reduce costs by 30 to 40 percent, compared with on-premises products, with best-in-class malware defense
Get built-in connector capability for WSA appliances, ASA firewalls, ISR G2 routers, and Cisco AnyConnect Secure Mobility clients
Lower OpEx by letting Cisco manage the back-end infrastructure, with instant access to the latest threat and application intelligence

Scale Your Solution with High Availability

Don't worry about adding another box for your web security challenges:

Achieve 99.999 percent uptime
Right-size your web security investment with per-user subscriptions that scale as your business grows
Support a distributed enterprise across headquarters, branch offices, and roaming devices with unified policy enforcement, management, and reporting

Defend Against Advanced Persistent Threats

Get near-real-time web protection, plus granular application visibility and control.

Zero-day defense through advanced heuristics engines, signatures, and other anti-malware technologies in a single cloud-delivered service
Analysis of more than 100 TB of security intelligence and 13 billion web requests per day to detect and mitigate the latest advanced threats
Granular visibility and control of more than 150,000 applications and micro-applications

Connect to the Cloud with Flexibility

Easily authenticate and redirect traffic to the Cisco Security Cloud with flexible network connectors. Cisco Security Cloud delivers a simple web security solution that does not require any additional hardware.

Simplify deployment on existing Cisco infrastructure. Customers get:

Cisco ISR G2 Router with CWS Connector – Saves bandwidth, money, and resources by redirecting traffic from branch offices directly to the cloud
Cisco ASA Firewall with CWS Connector – Integrates with the Cisco ASA Software Release 9.0 to provide security at firewall performance without adding data center or network complexity
Cisco Web Security Appliance with CWS Connector – Takes full advantage of content processing in the cloud with centralized management and policy enforcement
Cisco AnyConnect Secure Mobility Client – Safeguards web-based transactions on roaming mobile devices to enforce distributed security policy anywhere your users go