Secure Web Gateway

Stop web threats without slowing your team down

Cloudflare Secure Web Gateway is a cloud-native, low-latency solution that inspects browser traffic without introducing latency, providing secure browsing without disruptions. It protects employees' Internet browsing from threats and offers holistic visibility into Internet traffic across all users, devices, and locations. With Cloudflare Secure Web Gateway, you can ensure secure browsing and protect your organization from cyber threats.

Faster Internet Access

Cloudflare Secure Web Gateway is 50% faster than SWG alternatives, with single-pass inspection that eliminates traffic backhauling, ensuring secure browsing without disruptions. This results in faster Internet access for users and improved productivity.

Comprehensive Threat Protection

Cloudflare Secure Web Gateway blocks both known and unknown threats using advanced threat detection, DNS and HTTP telemetry, and threat detection models to catch more risks. This provides comprehensive protection for your organization against cyber threats.

Holistic Traffic Visibility

Cloudflare Secure Web Gateway provides holistic visibility into Internet traffic across all users, devices, and locations, allowing for streamlined policy building and auditing with predefined categories. This enables you to make informed decisions about Internet traffic and security policies.

Cloudflare Secure Web Gateway

A cloud-native, low-latency Secure Web Gateway that inspects browser traffic without introducing latency, providing secure browsing without disruptions.

How Cloudflare Secure Web Gateway Works

Global Traffic Inspection

Cloudflare Secure Web Gateway runs everywhere in Cloudflare's global network, allowing it to inspect traffic no matter where employees are working, without disrupting their work. This global presence ensures secure browsing without disruptions and provides comprehensive protection.

Accelerated User Internet Access

Cloudflare Secure Web Gateway provides single-pass inspection, which is 50% faster than SWG alternatives. This means no more traffic backhauling, resulting in faster Internet access for users and improved productivity.

Network Traffic Monitoring

Stack in-line Zero Trust services to provide holistic Internet traffic visibility across users, devices, and locations. This allows for comprehensive protection and monitoring of Internet traffic, enabling you to identify potential security risks.

Remote and Guest User Protection

Cloudflare Secure Web Gateway protects 'work-from-anywhere' users from malware, ransomware, and other online cyber threats. It also defends against cyber threats, enforces acceptable use, and optimizes visitor experiences on guest WiFi networks, providing secure browsing for all users.

Secure Web Gateway Use Cases

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Sensitive Data Protection

Regain full forward-proxy visibility and control over sensitive data and source code across web, SaaS, and private applications. This ensures that your organization's sensitive information is safeguarded from potential threats and data breaches, providing comprehensive protection.

Recursive DNS Filtering

Filter by security or content category to block malicious traffic and ensure secure browsing. Deploy via our device client or via routers for locations, providing a flexible and scalable solution for your organization and protecting against cyber threats.

Remote Browser Isolation

Render all browser code at the edge, instead of locally, to mitigate threats. Deploy with or without a device client, and selectively control what activity to isolate and when, providing an additional layer of security for your users and protecting against cyber threats.

Shadow IT Visibility and Control

Track usage and review approval status across applications end users visit, providing visibility into shadow IT and helping you to identify potential security risks. This enables you to make informed decisions about which applications to allow or block, ensuring secure browsing and protecting your organization.

Secure Web Gateway Code Examples

Implement Cloudflare Secure Web Gateway to protect your organization

addEventListener('fetch', event => {
  event.respondWith(handleRequest(event.request))
})

async function handleRequest(request) {
  const response = await fetch(request)
  const gatewayResponse = await cloudflare.gateway.inspect(response)
  if (gatewayResponse.blocked) {
    return new Response('Blocked by Cloudflare Secure Web Gateway', { status: 403 })
  }
  return response
}

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Knowing that we don’t have to worry about DDoS attacks against our API and gateway servers gives us the peace of mind to focus on improving our product. "

Stanislav Vishnevskiy CTO

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