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title: Network Security
url: https://www.broadcom.com/products/cybersecurity/network
description: Effective web and network security requires balancing security, performance, complexity and cost. Learn how Symantec creates solutions to address these factors.
---

# Network Security

## Your network is the lifeblood of your organization
One wrong click can put it at risk. Protect it with comprehensive, advanced web and email security.

[View Solution Brief](https://docs.broadcom.com/docs/symantec-network-security)

## Currently viewing:

### Encrypted Traffic Management

### [All-Around Visibility and Protection](https://players.brightcove.net/6415665063001/Vh8ALpkmx_default/index.html?videoId=6328968825112)
Users are everywhere and need quick access to data and cloud applications around the clock. In the cloud, on-premises, or both, you need to stop inbound and outbound threats that target your end users, information, and key infrastructure. Today’s web & email protection must account for this new reality while balancing security, performance, complexity, and cost.

Our Network Security portfolio includes the solutions you need to do just that:
- Secure Web Gateway
- Advanced Threat Protection
- Web Isolation
- [Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA)](https://www.broadcom.com/products/cybersecurity/network/network-protection/zero-trust-network-access)
- [Cloud Firewall Service](https://www.broadcom.com/products/cybersecurity/network/network-protection)
- [Application Visibility and Control](https://www.broadcom.com/products/cybersecurity/network/network-protection)
- Encrypted Traffic Management
- Messaging Security

## Security Service Edge
Learn more about [Symantec Network Protection](https://www.broadcom.com/products/cybersecurity/network/network-protection) or click directly to the solution you’d like to explore.

![Zero Trust Network Access](https://www.broadcom.com/media/blt4ac44e0e6c6d8341/blt23ff8a9f639a2ecf/6035498252e77741ec966418/Secure_Access_Cloud-circle.png)

### [Zero Trust Network Access](https://www.broadcom.com/products/cybersecurity/network/network-protection/zero-trust-network-access)
Enable secure access to all corporate resources, on-prem or cloud, with ZTNA.

![Web Isolation](https://www.broadcom.com/media/blt4ac44e0e6c6d8341/blt991cbda43fc96e9f/604f5d1fdbfbf461456cc659/sed_web_isolation-circle.png)

### [Web Isolation](https://www.broadcom.com/products/cybersecurity/network/network-protection/web-isolation)
Isolate potentially risky traffic to prevent malware and phishing threats.

![Cloud Sandbox](https://www.broadcom.com/media/blt4ac44e0e6c6d8341/blte85615251197f483/6312962c8bdc107d4a01d885/ICON_SED_Sandbox_Detonation-circle.png)

### [Cloud Sandbox](https://www.broadcom.com/products/cybersecurity/network/network-protection/sandboxing)
A powerful combination of malware sandbox tools, including virtualization and emulation captures more malicious behavior across a wider range of custom environments.

![Cloud Secure Web Gateway](https://www.broadcom.com/media/blt4ac44e0e6c6d8341/bltf80eb8dc5f62b21b/604f5d206d5c68613f2685e6/sed_web_security_service-circle.png)

### [Cloud Secure Web Gateway](https://www.broadcom.com/products/cybersecurity/network/web-protection/cloud-secure-web-gateway)
Get cloud-delivered web security to protect users and ensure compliance.

![Deep File Inspection](https://www.broadcom.com/media/blt4ac44e0e6c6d8341/blt2eeec5a9408f98d6/632a4f9e258fb55f6b217dde/ICON_SED_Content_Analysis-circle.png)

### [Deep File Inspection](https://www.broadcom.com/products/cybersecurity/network/web-protection/deep-file-inspection)
Innovative multi-layered inspection and customizable sandboxing block advanced malware and zero-day threats that elude traditional analysis.

![Intelligence Services](https://www.broadcom.com/media/blt4ac44e0e6c6d8341/bltd658c49534123250/604f5d1e6a79a820bf6e8563/sed_intelligence_services-circle.png)

### [Intelligence Services](https://www.broadcom.com/products/cybersecurity/network/web-protection/intelligence-services)
Intelligence Services implements a defense-in-depth approach and delivers insight into the latest threat landscape, along with CASB capabilities, such as application visibility and control over 45,000 cloud applications and management of shadow IT.

## Secure Web Gateway
Enforce Consistent Security & Compliance with an Advanced Network Security Solution

Symantec Secure Web Gateway (SWG) solutions draw on a unique proxy server architecture to effectively monitor, control, and secure traffic for a safe web and cloud experience. Whether on-premises, in a private cloud, in the public cloud, or a hybrid mix of each, users get an advanced network security service that enforces consistent Internet security and compliance policies for all users, regardless of location or device.

Secure Web Gateway customers benefit from:
![Stronger Security](https://www.broadcom.com/media/blt4ac44e0e6c6d8341/blt28ad177c2581d979/6051c106dc354f71b5469f71/icon_sed_cyber_security.png)

### Stronger Security
Sitting between employees, wherever they are located, and the Internet, the Secure Web Gateway protects the enterprise from external cyber threats while preventing leakage of sensitive data.

![Better Compliance](https://www.broadcom.com/media/blt4ac44e0e6c6d8341/blt197150a094b11f99/6051c96fc07b057ba8ec1a92/icon_sed_control_compliance.png)

### Better Compliance
Granular access and security policies manage web usage by app, device, user, or location. Universal Policy Enforcement allows administrators to define policies once and distribute to all gateways.

![Deployment Flexibility](https://www.broadcom.com/media/blt4ac44e0e6c6d8341/bltabc183db2f63a4a6/6051c44f6a79a820bf6eb48f/icon_surrounding_technologies.png)

### Deployment Flexibility
Options for a complete cloud-delivered service, physical and virtual appliances in data centers, or deployment in your own cloud environment help meet diverse enterprise requirements.

![Improved Performance](https://www.broadcom.com/media/blt4ac44e0e6c6d8341/blt10c2ebbfe87ad014/6051c5e762dca518e88abef8/modernize-icon.png)

### Improved Performance
Content caching, acceleration, optimized hardware, content peering, and our Google Cloud backbone are some of the many ways our SWG solutions deliver a better user experience.

## Advanced Threat Protection
Get Preventative Protection, Detection, Investigation, & Resolution

Symantec Advanced Threat Protection solutions detect unknown malware through deep content inspection and efficient sandboxing, arming your incident response team with tools to swiftly identify and remediate advanced threats targeting your enterprise. Efficient investigation and remediation processes are critical in today's high stakes security world. Symantec provides the telemetry and threat intelligence that feeds our targeted attack detections, the deep forensic records that speed investigations, and powerful tools to quickly remediate breaches. Built on strong preventative protections in endpoint, network, email, and cloud infrastructure.

Symantec Advanced Threat Protection customers benefit from:
![Stronger Threat Intelligence](https://www.broadcom.com/media/blt4ac44e0e6c6d8341/blt48933cdd1b1c5bbc/6051c58f4a81855e86fae914/icon_sed_intelligence_services.png)

### Stronger Threat Intelligence
Symantec Global Intelligence Network offers the broadest and deepest threat intelligence in the industry, leveraging insight from endpoint, email, and web traffic.

![Better Detection](https://www.broadcom.com/media/blt4ac44e0e6c6d8341/blt0719e1de76031c93/6051bbd5ecfce635e9a342b1/icon_sed_advanced_threat_protection.png)

### Better Detection
Multi-layered threat detection and dynamic sandboxing detect more threats and reduce the workload of incident response teams.

![Faster Remediation](https://www.broadcom.com/media/blt4ac44e0e6c6d8341/blte0aad85ebb91a777/6051c34500b4d402d3f339ff/icon_sed_content_analysis.png)

### Faster Remediation
Network Traffic Analysis and deep packet inspection give incident response teams the full details and evidence of an attack to enable laser-focused response.

![Advanced Prevention](https://www.broadcom.com/media/blt4ac44e0e6c6d8341/bltb5a60919bd7bb61d/6051bd0504c74419639c4033/icon_sed_atp.png)

### Advanced Prevention
Symantec Web Isolation protects your employees from risky web traffic, eliminates threats targeting browser vulnerabilities, and ensures a productive user experience.

## Our Advanced Threat Protection Solutions
![Security Analytics](https://www.broadcom.com/media/blt4ac44e0e6c6d8341/bltc6f50c2a1f3498c0/604f5d1c426f54426c68a613/sed_network_forensics-circle.png)

### [Security Analytics](https://www.broadcom.com/products/cybersecurity/network/forensics-security-analytics)
Gain security visibility and real-time threat detection with full packet capture and advanced network traffic analysis and forensics.

![Deep File Inspection](https://www.broadcom.com/media/blt4ac44e0e6c6d8341/blt2eeec5a9408f98d6/632a4f9e258fb55f6b217dde/ICON_SED_Content_Analysis-circle.png)

### [Deep File Inspection](https://www.broadcom.com/products/cybersecurity/network/web-protection/deep-file-inspection)
Innovative multi-layered inspection and customizable sandboxing block advanced malware and zero-day threats that elude traditional analysis.

![Web Isolation](https://www.broadcom.com/media/blt4ac44e0e6c6d8341/blt991cbda43fc96e9f/604f5d1fdbfbf461456cc659/sed_web_isolation-circle.png)

### [Web Isolation](https://www.broadcom.com/products/cybersecurity/network/network-protection/web-isolation)
Isolate potentially risky traffic to prevent malware and phishing threats.

![Email Threat Detection Response](https://www.broadcom.com/media/blt4ac44e0e6c6d8341/blt060bb8a54f780179/604f5d65442e9d4cb1e63afd/sed_email_threat_detection-circle.png)

### [Email Threat Detection Response](https://www.broadcom.com/products/cybersecurity/email/threat-detection-and-response)
Extend Symantec Email Security.cloud with advanced detection, post‑delivery protection, isolation, and analytics to combat targeted, evasive email threats and support SOC‑driven response.

## Encrypted Traffic Management
Stop Threats That Hide in Encrypted Traffic

Symantec provides comprehensive, policy-based visibility into encrypted traffic through SSL and TLS Visibility and SWG solutions. Whether exposing previously hidden advanced persistent threats (APTs), offloading the performance burden on existing security appliances by giving them visibility into formerly encrypted traffic, or simply protecting data from loss and exfiltration, Symantec helps organizations of all sizes manage encrypted communications.

**Symantec Encrypted Traffic Management delivers:**
![Strong Crypto Support](https://www.broadcom.com/media/blt4ac44e0e6c6d8341/blt6ffbb6f2dc10598e/6051c3f90985431b61da84f2/icon_sed_encryption.png)

### Strong Crypto Support
We offer strong SSL/TLS protocol support and a large choice of native Cipher Suites. Our solutions include Perfect Forward Secrecy (PFS) Cipher Suites, such as RSA, DHE, ECDHE, ChaCha, and Camilla.

![Superior Security](https://www.broadcom.com/media/blt4ac44e0e6c6d8341/blt7d2f2d95d46151d8/6051bfa6339f6a6b3576da6a/icon_sed_control_compliance_suite.png)

### Superior Security
Symantec Encrypted Traffic Management solutions mirror browser/client preferences, support the industry’s leading Ciphers, and don’t downgrade cryptography levels or weaken your organization’s security posture.

### All Port/Protocol Coverage 
Our solutions feed active and passive devices simultaneously, perfectly complementing your existing security solutions (such as data loss prevention, intrusion protection systems, next-generation firewall, and sandbox) without breaking your budget or hindering their performance.

![Better Compliance](https://www.broadcom.com/media/blt4ac44e0e6c6d8341/blt7d2f2d95d46151d8/6051bfa6339f6a6b3576da6a/icon_sed_control_compliance_suite.png)

### Better Compliance
Enabled by the unprecedented insights of the Global Intelligence Network, the Selective Decryption capabilities help you create granular policies that balance your organization’s data privacy and security requirements.

## Our Encrypted Traffic Management Solutions
Learn more about [Symantec Encrypted Traffic Management](https://www.broadcom.com/products/cybersecurity/network/encrypted-traffic-management) or click directly to the solution you’d like to explore.

![SSL Visibility Appliance](https://www.broadcom.com/media/blt4ac44e0e6c6d8341/blt600a371cb76435f7/604f5cab91c90f4740ec5bb5/sed_ssl_visibility_appliance-circle.png)

### [SSL Visibility Appliance](https://www.broadcom.com/products/cybersecurity/network/encrypted-traffic-management/ssl-visibility-appliance)
Improve the ROI of your security tools with our purpose-built encrypted traffic management solution to ensure every tool has full visibility into all traffic.

![Edge Secure Web Gateway](https://www.broadcom.com/media/blt4ac44e0e6c6d8341/bltca5295b1bf30b6a4/604f5d160daa0c1e83c4d24a/sed_secure_web_gateway-circle.png)

### [Edge Secure Web Gateway](https://www.broadcom.com/products/cybersecurity/network/web-protection/proxy-sg-and-advanced-secure-gateway)
Your high-performance secure web gateway can be delivered on-premises on Symantec hardware and virtual appliances, or in private cloud infrastructure such as AWS, Azure or Google Cloud.

![Cloud Secure Web Gateway](https://www.broadcom.com/media/blt4ac44e0e6c6d8341/bltf80eb8dc5f62b21b/604f5d206d5c68613f2685e6/sed_web_security_service-circle.png)

### [Cloud Secure Web Gateway](https://www.broadcom.com/products/cybersecurity/network/web-protection/cloud-secure-web-gateway)
Get cloud-delivered web security to protect users and ensure compliance.

## AppNeta for Network Security
Gain end-to-end performance visibility into your network security defenses

AppNeta for Symantec Network Security provides active synthetic network and application testing combined with packet visibility to proactively address performance issues for any environment.

- [View Solution Brief](https://docs.broadcom.com/docs/appneta-for-symantec-network-security-sb)

## Recognition
- [KuppingerCole Buyer’s Compass, Security Service Edge: Broadcom](https://www.broadcom.com/company/industry-analyst-report/kuppingercole-buyers-compass-security-service-edge-broadcom)

Symantec Email Security.cloud removes unwanted/malicious email before it gets anywhere near users’ mailboxes, and the new URL isolation capabilities ensure malicious website links are neutralized—but our users can still see the website.  
Graeme Hackland, Chief Information Officer ROKiT Williams Racing

## Services and Support

### Services

![Professional Services](https://www.broadcom.com/media/blt4ac44e0e6c6d8341/blt9c07758c26601905/60d1d55d3f413c1713cfe50e/professional_services_100x100.png)

Find a partner to help implement, upgrade or expand your Broadcom software solution.

- [Partner Services](https://expert.broadcom.com/)

### Education
Symantec offers a full range of training solutions to advance your technical skills, demonstrate technical competency, and maximize your investment in Symantec solutions—and your career.

- [Broadcom Software Education](https://www.broadcom.com/support/education/software)

### Discover Our Community
Find answers and share knowledge with your peers through interactive forums.
- [Join the conversation](https://community.broadcom.com/symantecenterprise/home)

### Need Help?
Access the latest product news, product life cycle information, and support information.
- [Get Help](https://support.broadcom.com/security)

## Resources

### Solution Brief

![Network Security Solution Brief](https://www.broadcom.com/media/blt4ac44e0e6c6d8341/bltb37d38293f91fd6c/6051bfb0b4a5c332e76323d8/network-security-solution.jpg)

[Network Security Solutions Overview](https://docs.broadcom.com/docs/symantec-network-security)

### White Paper
[Enabling Remote Work and Modern Business Practices](https://docs.broadcom.com/docs/idc-enabling-remote-work-and-modern-business-practices)

### [Network Security Video](https://players.brightcove.net/6415665063001/Vh8ALpkmx_default/index.html?videoId=6328968825112)

## More

- [Buy via Partner](https://www.broadcom.com/how-to-buy/partner-distributor-lookup)
- [Contact Us](https://engage.broadcom.com/ESG-contact-us)

## Also of Interest

- [Symantec™ Edge Secure Web Gateway (SWG)](https://www.broadcom.com/products/cybersecurity/network/web-protection/proxy-sg-and-advanced-secure-gateway)
- [Symantec™ Cloud Secure Web Gateway](https://www.broadcom.com/products/cybersecurity/network/web-protection/cloud-secure-web-gateway)
- [Symantec™ WebFilter and Intelligence Services](https://www.broadcom.com/products/cybersecurity/network/web-protection/intelligence-services)
