Inclusion and Exclusion Criteria
These criteria must be met for vendors to be included in this Magic Quadrant:
Vendors must provide all three components of an SWG:
URL filtering
Anti-malware protection
Web application control capabilities
Pure-play URL filtering solutions have been excluded.
The vendor's URL filtering component must be primarily focused on categorizing Englishlanguage
websites.
Vendors must have at least $15 million in SWG product revenue in their latest complete fiscal
years.
Vendors must have an installed base of at least 2,000 customers or aggregate endpoint
coverage of at least 5 million seats.
UTM devices and next-generation firewall devices that offer URL filtering and malware protection
have been excluded. This Magic Quadrant analyzes solutions that are optimized for SW G
functionality.
Vendors that license complete SWG products and services from other vendors have been
excluded. For example, ISPs and other service providers that offer cloud-based SWG services
licensed from other providers have been excluded.