Secure Web Gateway (SWG)

Employees access the internet from offices, homes, branches, and mobile networks, and every session is a potential entry point for malware, phishing, and data exfiltration. Orixcom SWG applies full proxy inspection to every outbound web session, blocking threats and enforcing policy before anything reaches the endpoint.

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Why choose SWG with Orixcom

URL Filtering

Control access to websites based on categories, risk profiles, and organisational policies. Enable safe browsing while blocking high-risk or non-compliant content across your environment.

TLS/SSL Inspection

Inspect encrypted traffic to uncover hidden threats and enforce security controls. Maintain full visibility into internet traffic without compromising performance.

Data Loss Prevention

Protect sensitive data from exposure over the web. Apply controls to prevent unauthorised uploads and reduce data loss risks.

Malware Anti-Phising Protection

Inspect encrypted traffic to uncover hidden threats and enforce security controls. Maintain full visibility into internet traffic without compromising performance.

Application Visibility and Control

Gain visibility into web and SaaS application usage, including shadow IT. Apply granular policies to allow, restrict, or monitor application access.

Sandboxing

Analyse suspicious files and activity in a secure sandbox environment. Identify and stop zero-day threats before they impact your business.

Remote Browser Isolation (RBI)

Isolate web sessions in a secure environment to prevent threats reaching endpoints. Enable safe access to unknown or high-risk websites without exposing users.

Cloud Secure Web Gateway

Deliver consistent protection through a cloud-based secure web gateway solution. Secure users across branches, remote environments, and hybrid work setups.

Where SWG delivers impact

Eliminate web traffic
blind spots

Inspect every outbound web session, including HTTPS, and identify risk before it materialises.

Inspect all web traffic including HTTPS, with full proxy and TLS inspection
Identify high-risk destinations before connections are established
Enforce consistent policies across offices, branches, and remote users

Stop web-borne threats
before the endpoint

Prevent web-based attacks before they impact users, with layered, cloud-delivered protection.

Block malware delivery and phishing attacks in real time
Sandbox suspicious files before they reach endpoints
Isolate risky web activity using RBI to eliminate browser-based threats

Simplify compliance and support investigations

Maintain complete visibility into web activity, policy enforcement, and security events across all users.

Log all web activity, policy decisions, and blocked threats
Generate compliance-ready reporting for acceptable use and data protection
Support faster investigations with full web session visibility and audit trails

Better together

Explore SSE Architecture

SWG is one part of a broader security edge. Explore how other SSE components
work together to secure users, applications, and data.

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FAQs

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What is a Secure Web Gateway?

Secure Web Gateway is a security control that sits between users and the internet, intercepting all outbound web traffic and applying policy before connections reach their destination. Operating as a full forward proxy, it applies URL filtering, decrypts and inspects TLS/SSL sessions, detects malware, controls application usage, and enforces DLP — providing visibility and control that network-layer firewalls cannot deliver.

How does an SWG work?

An SWG operates as a full forward proxy — intercepting every outbound web request and evaluating the destination against URL categories, reputation scores, and policy rules before allowing or blocking the connection. For HTTPS traffic, the SWG establishes separate TLS sessions with the destination server and the client, decrypts the content, applies all active security controls, then re-encrypts and forwards clean traffic.

What is the difference between a Secure Web Gateway and a firewall?

A firewall operates at the network layer (Layers 3–4), making decisions based on IP address, port, and protocol — it cannot inspect the content of encrypted HTTPS sessions. An SWG operates at the application layer, decrypting and inspecting what is inside web sessions, allowing it to block threats, enforce URL policy, apply DLP, and control application usage. Both are typically deployed together as complementary controls.

What is the difference between a Secure Web Gateway and a proxy?

A legacy web proxy was built for caching and bandwidth optimisation — it provides basic URL filtering but cannot decrypt TLS/SSL traffic. An SWG uses the same forward proxy architecture but adds malware detection, full TLS inspection, sandboxing, application control, and DLP. Same underlying mechanics, fundamentally different security capability.

What is the difference between SWG and CASB?

SWG secures all outbound web traffic — filtering URLs, blocking malware, and inspecting encrypted sessions. CASB focuses on cloud application usage- discovering shadow IT, enforcing SaaS data policies, and providing API-level visibility inside platforms like Microsoft 365. SWG provides web-traffic breadth; CASB provides cloud-application depth. In an SSE architecture, both are deployed together.

Will SWG affect user performance or experience?

Cloud-delivered SWG inspects traffic through distributed Points of Presence close to the user, minimising latency compared to routing through a central datacentre. TLS inspection adds some processing overhead, managed through bypass policies for trusted destinations to balance security coverage with user experience.

Secure every web session
from any user, any location, any device.

Secure users, control access, and protect data, without added complexity.

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