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Zscaler Delivers Immediate 'Safe Search' Protection for Bing
SUNNYVALE, California, June 29 /PRNewswire/ --
Zscaler, Inc., the market leader in cloud-delivered multi-tenant Security
as a Service (SaaS), today announced the immediate availability of Safe
Search for Microsoft Corp.'s newly-released Decision Engine, Bing. With a
Safe Search solution like Zscaler's, companies can further enforce
appropriate access to Web content--including explicit images and videos.
Without properly controlling access to search content, organizations invite
risk and liability. And whereas with traditional software or hardware
appliances similar deployment would have taken months, Zscaler was able to
add this protection to its service within days of the availability of Bing.
Safe Search is an important feature for search engines on many counts.
The Bing Smart Motion Preview was designed to enable consumers to preview
video content before clicking on the video itself, helping them to more
easily navigate vast amounts of video content on the Web to find something
that best meets their needs. Corporations raised concerns with this feature,
as it enabled people to access explicit content without leaving the Bing
domain. Microsoft moved quickly to address this, however Zscaler Safe Search
provides businesses with even more flexibility to enable people to use the
Bing video preview while enforcing appropriate access policies.
Delivery of Safe Search for Bing also illustrates the benefits of SaaS
security over traditional appliances. Adding Safe Search for Bing required no
software or proxy changes by customers; it was entirely transparent to
end-users.
"Zscaler shares our passion to protect a world full of Internet users,
which is why we are working with them to advance and improve security," said
Mark Miller, director of Trustworthy Computing Product Management at
Microsoft. "Microsoft continues to work internally and with partners like
Zscaler to deliver the best possible security protection to our mutual
customers."
"As popular new Web services emerge, SaaS is the only way to keep up with
securing them," said Jay Chaudhry, Zscaler CEO. "Zscaler Safe Search for Bing
was something customers asked for, and our SaaS platform enabled us to
transparently deliver and implement it within days. It's great to be able to
keep coming back to customers with information that our security services are
extending beyond what they initially signed up for!"
About Zscaler
Through a multi-tenant, globally-deployed infrastructure, Zscaler
enforces business policy, mitigates risk and provides twice the functionality
at a fraction of the cost of current solutions. It enables organizations to
provide the right access to the right users, from any place and on any
device - while empowering the end-user with a rich Internet experience. For
more information, visit us at www.zscaler.com.
Zscaler(TM), and the Zscaler Logo are trademarks of Zscaler, Inc. in the
United States. All other trademarks, trade names or service marks used or
mentioned herein belong to their respective owners.
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