Blue Coat - Security Blog: Is Anti-Malware Redundant When You Have URL Filtering?

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October 11, 2011
By Tim Chiu

A common misconception is that URL filtering is enough protection on the Secure Web Gateway, and that there's little need for anti-malware (anti-virus) scanning. Before we explain why you really need both WebFilter (URL filtering) and ProxyAV (anti-malware) in your Secure Web Gateway deployment, let's first explain what each one of these features actually does.

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