I’m sure you’ve read by now that we have agreed to acquire Fireglass—the leader in the fast-growing Threat Isolation security category. The acquisition, which is expected to close in this Fall, adds valuable new capabilities to our Secure Web Gateway and Email Gateway offerings that increase your customer’s protection against web-borne threats.
What Does Fireglass Do?
Fireglass’s core technology, delivered as a cloud-service or on-prem, intercepts and executes web requests in an isolated secured environment. It gives users safe access to uncategorized and potentially risky websites, without risk of malware infection to the operating system since these types of website interactions are simply isolated from the user’s browser. The experience for users is seamless as they will interact with websites just as they would normally while the isolation process happens in the background when interactions occur with unknown or risky web locations. All the user simply sees is the website they were expecting and with any risky content isolated from their browser.
Did you know that according to Gartner’s recent Strategic Planning Assumption predicted that by 2021, 50% of enterprises will adopt browser isolation and, as a result, will experience a 70% reduction in attacks compromising end user systems? Any CISO in any size company would love to see that level of protection in his or her own organization.
Where is the Opportunity for Partners?
There is a very big opportunity to sell Fireglass along with ProxySG and Web Security Service as a cross-sell. Fireglass adds a significant layer of protection beyond the powerful resources of ProxySG and Web Security Service.
On their own, both our Secure Web Gateway and Mail Security solutions provide excellent protections against advanced threats. Content Analysis and Malware Analysis scan files within proxy deployments as well as for Secure Mail Gateway (introduced last quarter). Both the cloud-delivered Web Security Service and Email.cloud Security have options for advanced malware sandboxing in the cloud as well. Tied together with our unmatched Global Intelligence Network (GIN), we have an excellent portfolio to protect organizations from threats.
Millions of hosts (Domains, Subdomains, or IP Addresses) pop up every day and many of these have lifespans of less than 24 hours. Many organizations choose to set Secure Web Gateway policies to block users from going to uncategorized sites because of the risk they represent, even though many may be legitimate destinations for business purposes.
With the integration between our Web and Mail Security with Fireglass, organizations will be able to set policies to send any traffic deemed risky or uncategorized by Global Intelligence Network down a Threat Isolation path. Businesses can let their users interact with these sites to accomplish their tasks, knowing that any malware introduced via these sessions will remain isolated from their network and not infect their network environment. What makes Fireglass unique is the Fireglass True Isolation™ technology that delivers 100% visual stream. This is critical because competitors use only a document object model (DOM) which still sends rendering information such as CSS, fonts, and other HTML elements. These elements bypass isolation and can still be exploited for vulnerabilities—but not with Fireglass. This new capability results in a productivity boost for customers without incurring any additional risk.
With this acquisition, Symantec aims to further strengthen our Integrated Cyber Defense Platform and dramatically extend our leadership in Secure Web Gateway and Email protection delivered both on premise and in the cloud.
If you have proxy refresh opportunities in your pipeline, consider adding Fireglass to help increase your deal size and give your SWG customers even more protection. Any customer with on-prem proxy deployments will benefit greatly as Fireglass integrates with on-prem proxies right now.
We will communicate timelines for use of Threat Isolation with Web Security Service (WSS) and Email.cloud security at a later time. Customers already testing Isolation and in final negotiation/procurement process should conduct business as usual with Fireglass.
Where can I learn more?
We encourage you to join one of the live webinars below where you can learn more about this incredible technology and why we are so excited about what it means for the future of advanced threat protection.
Webinars on “Integrating Threat Isolation with Secure Web Gateway and Secure Mail Gateway”:
July 11th 11 am EDT / 8 am PDT / 3pm UTC
https://www.symantec.com/about/webcasts?commid=269353&mkt_tok=70138000001QM33AAG
July 13 2 pm Tokyo / July 12th 1 am EDT / 5 am UTC
https://www.symantec.com/about/webcasts?commid=269361&mkt_tok=70138000001QM38AAG
July 14th 12 Noon EDT / 9 am PDT / 4 pm UTC
https://www.symantec.com/about/webcasts?commid=269363&mkt_tok=70138000001QM3DAAW
July 19th 1 pm EDT / 10 am PDT / 5 pm UTC
https://www.symantec.com/about/webcasts?commid=269365&mkt_tok=70138000001QM3IAAW
Additional Resources:
Click Here to download the Fireglass Field Datasheet
Click Here to download the Fireglass Sales Presentation
Click Here to download the Fireglass Threat Isolation Demo