Best Secure Web Gateways for Freelancers
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What are Secure Web Gateways for Freelancers?
Secure web gateways protect users and organizations from online threats by monitoring and controlling web traffic between internal networks and the internet. They filter malicious websites, block unauthorized access, and prevent data leaks by enforcing security policies in real time. These gateways use technologies such as URL filtering, malware scanning, sandboxing, and data loss prevention to safeguard users across devices and locations. Cloud-based versions extend protection to remote and hybrid workforces without relying on traditional network perimeters. Ultimately, secure web gateways ensure safe, compliant, and controlled internet access while maintaining high performance and user productivity. Compare and read user reviews of the best Secure Web Gateways for Freelancers currently available using the table below. This list is updated regularly.
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Check Point SASE
Check Point Software
Check Point SASE is a cloud-delivered Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) platform that combines networking and cybersecurity capabilities into a unified solution for modern enterprises and hybrid work environments. The platform integrates Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA), Secure Web Gateway (SWG), Cloud Access Security Broker (CASB), SD-WAN, and secure internet access to protect users, devices, applications, and data from a centralized system. Built on a global private backbone network, Check Point SASE helps organizations provide secure, low-latency connectivity for remote employees, branch offices, and distributed workforces. The platform simplifies deployment and management by consolidating networking and security operations into a single interface, reducing complexity and administrative overhead.Starting Price: $8 per user per month -
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WebTitan
TitanHQ
WebTitan is a DNS Based Web content filter and Web security layer that blocks cyber attacks, malware, ransomware and malicious phishing as well as providing granular web content control. WebTitan DNS filtering filters over 2 billion DNS requests every day and identifies 300,000 malware iterations a day. Our intelligent AI driven real time content categorization engine combines industry leading anti-virus and cloud based architecture. This makes the WebTitan Cloud DNS filter an ideal solution for organizations needing maximum protection and minimal maintenance. This cloud based web filtering solution provides complete protection from online threats such as viruses, malware, ransomware, phishing and comprehensive content filtering. WebTitan Cloud is a low maintenance solution that can be set up in five minutes to stop your users from accessing inappropriate content online. Start your free Trial of WebTitan today, with full support included. -
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SKUDONET
SKUDONET
SKUDONET Enterprise Edition is an Application Delivery and Security Platform built on Linux Debian 12.5 LTS for critical enterprise environments. Formerly known as Zevenet, it provides advanced L4/L7 load balancing, integrated WAF, TLS management with Let’s Encrypt and wildcard support, and protocol-aware traffic inspection across on-premises, hybrid, or cloud deployments, including SkudoCloud SaaS. A free trial is available for evaluation on the SKUDONET website. Key Features & Benefits: • High Availability: Clustering and failover to minimize downtime. • Advanced Security: WAF, L7 filtering, DoS protection, TLS with Let’s Encrypt and wildcard support. • Scalability: Optimized for high-throughput workloads with multi-core processing and efficient packet handling. • Traffic Control: Session persistence, custom routing rules, and granular L4/L7 inspection. • Centralized Management: Unified dashboard for configuration, monitoring, and policy automation.Starting Price: $1736/year/appliance -
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Zscaler
Zscaler
Zscaler, creator of the Zero Trust Exchange platform, uses the largest security cloud on the planet to make doing business and navigating change a simpler, faster, and more productive experience. The Zscaler Zero Trust Exchange enables fast, secure connections and allows your employees to work from anywhere using the internet as the corporate network. Based on the zero trust principle of least-privileged access, it provides comprehensive security using context-based identity and policy enforcement. The Zero Trust Exchange operates across 150 data centers worldwide, ensuring that the service is close to your users, co-located with the cloud providers and applications they are accessing, such as Microsoft 365 and AWS. It guarantees the shortest path between your users and their destinations, providing comprehensive security and an amazing user experience. Use our free service, Internet Threat Exposure Analysis. It’s fast, safe, and confidential. -
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dope.swg
dope.security
Your new SWG. Eliminate the datacenter and perform security checks directly on endpoint for stronger privacy, reliability, and up to 4x performance speeds. The Fly-Direct architecture means all the functionality takes place on-device, without sacrificing performance. Users will find speed, reliability and privacy have all increased when migrating from a legacy SWG. dope.swg features integrated URL filtering, Anti-malware, Cloud Application Controls, Shadow IT, and user/group-based policies. It’s fully customizable: you decide where users can go. In the rare event the dope.cloud is down, fail-safe features allow access to trusted company-defined websites while blocking new requests for user safety. dope.swg’s endpoint-driven proxy solves the reliability, performance, and privacy issues that customers face every day with legacy SWGs. Instantly trial and install the proxy onto your device with a few clicks.Starting Price: $60 per month -
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Lookout
Lookout
Our mission is to secure and empower productivity in a privacy-focused world, where work and play can happen anywhere. With everything now in the cloud, it’s critical that cybersecurity follows you wherever you go, securing your data from the endpoint all the way to the cloud. Mobility and cloud technology have become essential, as most of us now work and manage our personal lives digitally. With a platform that integrates endpoint and cloud security technologies, Lookout solutions can be tailored for any industry and any company size, from individual users to large global enterprises and governmental organizations. Cloud access doesn’t have to be all or nothing. Security shouldn’t interrupt productivity or impair the user’s experience. With visibility and insights into everything, we enable you to secure your data by dialing in precise access and providing a seamless and efficient experience. -
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Barracuda Web Security Gateway
Barracuda Networks
The Barracuda Web Security Gateway lets organizations benefit from online applications and tools without exposure to web-borne malware and viruses, lost user productivity, and misused bandwidth. As a comprehensive solution for web security and management, it unites award-winning spyware, malware, and virus protection with a powerful policy and reporting engine. Advanced features ensure that organizations adapt to emerging requirements like social-network regulation, remote filtering, and visibility into SSL-encrypted traffic. Unlimited remote user licenses are included to enforce content and access policies for mobile devices outside of the corporate network. The Barracuda Web Security Gateway is also available as a virtual appliance. For hosted web security, see Barracuda Content Shield. -
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Cato SASE
Cato Networks
Cato enables customers to gradually transform their WAN for the digital business. Cato SASE Cloud is a global converged cloud-native service that securely and optimally connects all branches, datacenters, people, and clouds. Cato can be gradually deployed to replace or augment legacy network services and security point solutions. Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) is a new enterprise networking category introduced by Gartner. SASE converges SD-WAN and network security point solutions (FWaaS, CASB, SWG, and ZTNA) into a unified, cloud-native service. In the past, network access was implemented with point solutions, managed as silos that were complex and costly. This hurt IT agility. With SASE, enterprises can reduce the time to develop new products, deliver them to the market, and respond to changes in business conditions or the competitive landscape. -
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Barracuda Content Shield
Barracuda
Make web browsing safe for business. 18.5 million websites are infected with malware at any given time. Protect your users and business from malicious links, websites and downloads. Protect local and remote users from accessing malicious websites and files. 40% of internet activity is non-work related. Stop unproductive or inappropriate web browsing with granular access policies. Get started in minutes with no client software to install. Barracuda Content Shield Plus is a cloud-based service that combines robust content filtering, file-based protection, granular policy enforcement and reporting, simple centralized management, and real-time threat intelligence to protect your users, your organization, and your brand. Its proxy-free architecture ensures minimal latency. Barracuda Content Shield delivers advanced web security with a more limited feature-set. Content Shield provides advanced DNS filtering and URL filtering that’s always up to date, and uses agent-based filtering. -
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Netskope
Netskope
Today, there’s more data and users outside the enterprise than inside, causing the network perimeter as we know it to dissolve. We need a new perimeter. One that is built in the cloud, and follows and protects data — wherever it goes. One that provides protection without slowing down or creating friction for the business. One that enables fast and secure access to the cloud and web using one of the world’s largest and fastest security networks, so you never have to sacrifice security for performance. This is the new perimeter. This is the Netskope Security Cloud. Reimagine your perimeter. That’s the vision of Netskope. The organic adoption of cloud and mobile in the enterprise presents challenges for security teams when it comes to managing risk without slowing down the business. Security has traditionally managed risk by applying heavy-handed controls, but today’s business wants to move fast without having velocity throttled. Netskope is redefining cloud, network, and data security. -
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iPrism Web Security
EdgeWave
iPrism Web Security offers a unique combination of fine-grained content filtering combined with threat detection and mitigation methods to assure powerful protection from Advanced Persistent Threats, including botnets, malware, viruses and others. iPrism Web Security is designed to be “set it and forget it” easy to use, self-contained to provide advanced threat protection and policy enforcement, yet require nearly zero maintenance. And our comprehensive on-box reporting makes managing your network a snap. iPrism uses our unique combination of iGuard automated intelligence and expert human analysis to block things like malware, Crypto-Locker and inappropriate sites. It also provides improved user productivity with low latency and false positive rates. This innovative approach ensures you have the most updated, advanced web protection 24/7 that is backed by world-class customer support. -
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Menlo Security
Menlo Security
Our platform invisibly protects users wherever they go online. So threats are history and the alert storm is over. Explore the key ingredients that make the Menlo Security platform so secure, seamless, and simplified. Fueling our unique approach to security, the Elastic Isolation Core protects against known and unknown threats, and isolates them before they get to users. Zero Trust isolation provides 100% protection with no need for special software or plug-ins, so users experience no impact on performance or interruption in workflow. Cloud-native and high performance, the Elastic Edge is built to scale globally on demand. It dynamically scales to meet enterprise-level growth—from 1000 users to over 3M— with no performance hit, and is easily extendible with a rich set of APIs and integrations. -
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MONITORAPP AISWG
MONITORAPP
Secure Web Gateway(SWG) AISWG, we can’t see with our eyes what sites pose threats to undermine corporate assets and the secure working environment for internal users. AISWG is a secure web gateway that blocks harmful sites and prevents the information from being leaked. AISWG is a vital solution to protect corporate assets from various threats. As we work more and more through the Web, we are exposed to many web sites that threaten asset and business productivity. Accessing non-business sites wastes valuable business hours, and visiting harmful websites with malicious codes may result in valuable corporate assets being taken away. In addition, improper web uploads information and leaks company assets easily. Secure Web Gateway (SWG) is the security solution for effectively controlling the use of the web itself to reduce corporate productivity and protect business assets. AISWG increases business efficiency by monitoring internal client web access. -
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AT&T Secure Web Gateway
AT&T Cybersecurity
Web and cloud security for today's mobile workforce. Unified protection against web-based threats for office and roaming users. Protect users against web-based threats, including zero-day, and restricts what content can be accessed. Enable rapid adoption of SD-WAN and cloud-based applications as well as the ability to provide security for mobile users. Reduce upfront capital expenditure in favor of a more predictable operational expense model. Perform deep packet inspection of encrypted web traffic with minimal effect on network performance. Provide centralized visibility and reporting across all locations. Allow administrators to grant access to specific cloud-based applications without providing access to the entire network. Safeguard against data loss and provides the ability to control the use of cloud-based applications. Empower organizations to quickly scale security to support new locations or acquisitions. -
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FortiGate SWG
Fortinet
Secure Web Gateway (SWG) solutions, enterprise-class protection against internet-borne threats. Secure Web Gateway (SWG) solutions use web filtering to enforce company Internet access policies. They also filter unwanted software, especially malware, from user-initiated Internet connections. SWGs are hugely important as enterprises have continued to evolve their WAN Edge. Applications are rapidly migrating to the cloud, and the attack surface at remote sites and branch locations continues to increase. Security risks are especially high for web-based traffic, and as attack techniques become more advanced, organizations need an integrated approach to secure against external and internal risks. An SWG solution should include URL filtering, application control, deep HTTPS/SSL inspection, data loss prevention and remote browser isolation capabilities. Fortinet's SWG provides flexible deployment options, including explicit, transparent, and inline modes. -
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FortiProxy
Fortinet
As attacks become more versatile, organizations need an integrated approach to secure from malicious web traffic, websites, and viruses. Fortinet's secure web gateway, FortiProxy, addresses these issues with one, unified product to protect against web attacks with URL filtering, advanced threat defense, and malware protection. Defend end-users from internet-borne threats and enforce policy compliance. Secure Web Gateway addresses a set of overlapping security problems within one product. Using one solution which protects against web attacks with URL filtering, advanced threat defense and malware protection to defend users from internet-borne threats and help enforce internet policy compliance. FortiProxy is a secure web proxy that protects employees against internet-borne attacks by incorporating multiple detection techniques such as web filtering, DNS filtering, data loss prevention, antivirus, intrusion prevention, and advanced threat protection. -
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Sangfor Athena SWG
Sangfor Technologies
Sangfor Athena SWG is a secure web gateway designed to protect organizations from threats arising through user internet access behavior, especially as cloud adoption and hybrid work increase. It provides visibility into encrypted traffic and identifies proxy avoidance attempts that bypass traditional security perimeters. The platform offers precise application control, intelligent traffic management, and gateway decryption to monitor and manage internet usage effectively. Athena SWG integrates with endpoint security to enforce proxy avoidance protection, ensuring comprehensive defense against bypass techniques. It supports centralized network-wide management and bandwidth optimization, improving productivity by controlling non-work-related applications. Trusted across industries, Athena SWG helps organizations secure user internet access while maintaining compliance and operational efficiency. -
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Trustwave Secure Web Gateway
Trustwave
Delivers real-time protection against malware and provides strong policy enforcement, with the added option of having the technology handled by our experts and augmented by our intelligence without you ever losing control. Your employees rely on the web and email to do their jobs, but cybercriminals are lurking in the background 24/7. A Secure Web Gateway responds by keeping your staff's endpoints free of internet-borne malware infections, while enforcing your company's policies. Reap the rewards of continuity, scalability and reduced costs with a cloud deployment that can extend across your enterprise to remote offices and roaming users. Retain control of the data in your environment with an on-premises solution that comes equipped with multi-layered anti-malware and behavior-based security engines to drive performance and scale. Our experts take the work out of your hands, designing and updating security and control policies based on your needs and direction. -
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Zecurion SWG
Zecurion
Control access to web resources and protect against mixed threats with Zecurion Secure Web Gateway. Neither affects the network performance nor slows down existing processes. Neither affects the network performance nor slows down existing processes. Enterprise-level performance and rich functionality. Operates in networks with up to 200K workstations. Prevents attacks with the built-in IDS/IPS module. Supports HTTP, HTTPS, FTP over HTTP and other protocols. Native integration with DLP. Integration with any other software through ICAP. The most accurate and up-to-date content filtering database. Sites are categorized manually by a person rather than by a robot. Daily database updates. More than 100 resource categories. Fast categorization of new and unknown web sites. Policies with per-user granularity. Over 5 million URLs in the database. A single solution for monitoring the entire corporate threat landscape. Try zecurion SWG together with zecurion dlp! -
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iboss
iboss
iboss is a cloud security company that enables organizations to reduce cyber risk by delivering a Zero Trust Secure Access Service Edge platform designed to protect resources and users in the modern distributed world. Applications, data, and services have moved to the cloud and are located everywhere, while users needing access to those resources are working from anywhere. The iboss platform replaces legacy VPN, Proxies, and VDI with a consolidated service that improves security, increases the end-user experience, consolidates technology, and substantially reduces costs. Built on a containerized cloud architecture, iboss delivers security capabilities such as SWG, malware defense, Browser Isolation, CASB, and Data Loss Prevention to protect all resources via the cloud instantaneously and at scale. The iboss platform includes ZTNA to replace legacy VPN, Security Service Edge to replace legacy Proxies, and Browser Isolation to replace legacy VDI. This shifts the focus from protecting -
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Sangfor Athena SASE
Sangfor Technologies
Sangfor Athena SASE is a cloud-native Secure Access Service Edge platform that combines advanced security features with wide-area network agility. It provides seamless, secure access to cloud resources, on-premises applications, and the internet for today’s distributed and hybrid workforce. The platform integrates Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA), Secure Web Gateway (SWG), Firewall as a Service (FWaaS), Data Loss Prevention (DLP), and Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) into a unified solution. Athena SASE simplifies network and security management through a single, centralized console, reducing complexity and operational overhead. Its global architecture supports fast, reliable connectivity anywhere, enabling smooth geographic expansion and regulatory compliance. This platform empowers organizations to secure hybrid work environments while optimizing performance and cost. -
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IBM® Sterling B2B Integrator helps companies integrate all their complex B2B and EDI processes across partner communities in a single gateway. It provides a flexible platform, available on-premises or through hybrid cloud, that supports data transformation and most communication protocols; secures your B2B network and data; provides certified container support; and achieves high availability for operations with IBM Sterling Global Mailbox. B2B Integrator enables you to reduce costs by consolidating on a single platform and automating B2B processes across enterprises while providing governance, adherence to standards and visibility for those processes. High-availability gateway platform built for the most demanding environments, with global mailbox options for geographic distribution and real-time data replication. Significantly reduce installation and patch time from hours to minutes by deploying your solution with a certified container that has all required components.
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Clearswift’s Secure Web Gateway (SWG) gives organizations the ability to enforce consistent internet security through flexible and granular policy management across web traffic, web-based applications, and cloud collaboration platforms. Prevent accidental data leaks with real-time content and context aware scanning that can detect and modify sensitive information being shared across the web such as social posts or document uploads to websites or cloud based applications. With SWG, monitor web traffic and prevent access to inappropriate or malicious sites as well as remove suspicious scripts or harmful executables from downloaded content. SWG empowers you to balance the need to protect critical information entering and leaving your organization with the ability to continuously collaborate with customers, suppliers, and partners across the web.
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Check Point URL Filtering
Check Point Software
Web access is a predominant route for attacks on enterprises. Check Point URL Filtering controls access to millions of web sites by category, users, groups, and machines to protect users from malicious sites and enable safe use of the Internet. URL Filtering employs UserCheck technology, which educates users on web usage policy in real time. Protects users with cloud-based categorization and UserCheck technology. Enable on any Check Point security gateway reducing total cost of ownership. Unified security across all aspects of the web with full application control integration. Security teams must be able to isolate, secure, and control every device on the network at all times. Check Point solutions provide you with the ability to block infected devices from accessing corporate data and assets, including employees’ mobile devices and workstations, IoT devices and industrial control systems.
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