Tutorial: Cisco Routers Add Web Security with Cisco ScanSafe IOS adds in proxy features to forward web traffic to cloud web security offering Cisco launched this feature to the market at Interop. In a nutshell, it provides IOS routers with intelligent, identity aware, traffic redirection to the Cisco ScanSafe web security cloud offering. ScanSafe provides the following web security features as a cloud service: •
URL Filtering
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Scanlets analyze all elements of a web request including HTML, JavaScript, Flash and even obfuscated active scripts
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Zero-day malware prevention
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Protection against Phishing attacks
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Granular Reporting with a multi-tenant design
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100% uptime over the last 8+ years
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Heuristic Malware identification
Here is a graphical look at how each web request is processed in the cloud: