The company has unveiled Anywhere Roaming Service as a preventative security feature set against threats brought in from outside the LAN when corporate users are surfing the web from public hotspots or home office broadband.
The service routes all traffic through Scansafe ‘safe towers’, which are hosted servers that run multiple scanning engines, Jay Barbour, ScanSafe VP, said.
Like other ScanSafe services, it is built on a heuristics engine known as Outbreak Intelligence, which ensures all web traffic is scrubbed and clean.
Barbour said administrators can use a web interface to configure the corporate browse policy at the hosted server. For remote and mobile users, they must also oversee the installation of a tamper-resistant thin client software element onto each laptop or PC to be secured. He said latency is not an issue. The service has been built to scale with the ease of deployment and ease of management being impacted, he said. ScanSafe charges for its services on a monthly per-user basis.
The company, which is venture-backed and London-based, claims to have almost 1,000 customers who are using the service to secure up to 2 billion web requests a month.
