Jon's Network

The McAfee Web Gateway was formerly Webwasher, which was bought by Secure Computing, which was then bought by McAfee. I interviewed the product manager for Webwasher here and here. I think most, if not all, of the information still stands. Webwasher was one of the pioneer secure web proxies.

I was enamored with this type of solution a couple years back because I was looking for a way to gain more visibility and control over SSL traffic. At the time, Blue Coat and Webwasher were the only games in town that addressed the problem to some degree. (I don’t think either of them made it particularly easy to use.) The SSL visibility problem has since been recognized by product managers from many vendors and most of them address it at least enough to put it on their datasheets.

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