This software provides internet security by acting as a proxy server with antivirus and web filtering capabilities. It offers features such as cache, IP based access control, authentication, and blocking website access with URL blacklist and keywords. Additionally, it blocks music, YouTube, SSL, java applets, messengers, cookies, and activex.
SafeSquid has an SMP-aware multi-threaded architecture that efficiently meets the most challenging requirements of a Secure Web Gateway. Each instance of SafeSquid can serve hundreds of concurrent users, and the solution can be easily scaled up by increasing hardware resources.
You have the flexibility to create LAN / WAN-based Web Filtering clusters with SafeSquid, and it offers a redundant level of security to users by augmenting its in-memory virus scanner. You can also supplement SafeSquid's auto-incrementing categorized URL database with custom lists of web-sites.
SafeSquid has a PCRE based re-programmable protocol and content analysis engine, which makes it possible to create exact-fit solutions for complex requirements. The unique download-and-deploy technology of SafeSquid gives you the freedom to set up your Secure Web Gateway on a dedicated physical host, virtualized guest, or a typical cloud instance.
What sets SafeSquid apart is its highly optimized design and very tiny resource utilization foot-print. It is a 100% software-based alternative to any sophisticated hardware-based web-filtering appliance. SafeSquid offers top-of-the-line features, performance, and advanced capabilities, and its application control engine is fully re-programmable via the intuitive WebUI.
Version 2015.0121.1850.:
Enhancements and Bug-fixes. To know more please visit -
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