Anywhere+ is ScanSafe’s Web security-as-a-service for real-time protection and policy enforcement for your roaming employees. With Anywhere+ it is finally possible to protect your roaming employees wherever they are working – at home, at a client office, in an airport lounge or hotel hotspot.
The number of employees who work outside the traditional office is rapidly increasing and perhaps surprisingly now constitutes the majority for many businesses. According to Gartner, 50-70% of the US workforce may now be classified as roaming or remote workers. This trend, coupled with the need for ‘always-on’ connectivity, means the network boundary is now ‘elastic’ and the traditional fixed network perimeter is becoming irrelevant.
However, the benefits of employees working the outside the office are tempered by some obvious problems, chief of which is lower levels of security and increased vulnerability to Web malware. As a result, cyber criminals are now increasingly targeting laptop users, encouraged by research showing that laptop computers with business information store an average of $525,000 worth of sensitive data.
Employees then return to the office with malware infected machines, which then spreads through the network with ease. IT administrators also have little or no control over roaming employees’ access to inappropriate web content. This situation is not helped by the fact that roaming employees are five times more likely to access inappropriate content on the road than in the office.
Traditional approaches to these problems include extending Web security software and appliances out to endpoints through client agents. This increases cost, management overheads and can require backhauling, which results in latency and increased bandwidth costs.
Anywhere+ removes these problems by offering Web Security as a Service for complete security, reduced complexity and simplified user management.
Your security perimeter is now anywhere you want it to be.
Founded in 1999, ScanSafe is the leading global provider of Web Security-as-a-Service, ensuring a safe and productive Internet environment for businesses. ScanSafe solutions keep viruses and spyware off corporate networks and allow businesses to control and secure the use of the Web and instant messaging. As a fully managed service, ScanSafe's solutions require no hardware, upfront capital costs or maintenance and provide unparalleled real-time threat protection.