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Find the Control for Your Risk

A proxy that only forwards traffic is not a security control. Each use case below closes one specific gap — encrypted-traffic blindness, credential misuse, DNS-layer evasion, sensitive-data exfiltration — with a policy you configure and can prove is enforced. Start from the risk you need to close, not from a feature list.

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Foundation

Controls most deployments configure first, because later use cases depend on them.

• SSL Inspection - decrypt and inspect HTTPS traffic; without it, every other control is blind to most of today’s web.
• Authentication - attribute every request to a user or group so policy and logs mean something.
• Profiling Engine - classify requests and responses so downstream controls act on the right traffic.

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Threat prevention

• DNS Security - block malicious and tunnelling domains before a connection is ever made.
• Malware Scanning - inspect downloads and payloads in the request path, not after the fact.

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Access control

• Access Restriction - allow or block sites, apps, and categories by user, group, or time window.
• Content Modifier - rewrite pages in flight to remove risky elements without blocking the whole site.
• Cookie Inspection - strip or filter cookies that leak session or tracking data.
• Header Rewrite - rewrite request and response headers to enforce corporate-account-only access to consumer services.
• URL Redirection - send a matched request to a different destination instead of blocking it outright.

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Data protection

• Data Leakage Prevention - stop sensitive content leaving over the web egress path, not just email.

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Visibility

• Audit & Forensics - preserve evidence an auditor or incident responder can actually use.

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Integrations

• Integrations - connect SafeSquid to ICAP scanners, SIEM, and VPN so existing tooling sees proxy-layer evidence.

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Operations and lifecycle

Day-2 operations for a control already in production — scaling, tuning, customisation, and upgrades.

• Scaling & High Availability - add clustering and failover once a single node is proven.
• Performance Acceleration - cache and tune so inspection doesn’t cost you latency.
• Customisation - adapt templates, startup parameters, and configuration sync to your environment.
• Upgrade - plan version and OS upgrades without an enforcement gap.

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Next steps

• SSL Inspection - close the encrypted-traffic blind spot first.
• Authentication - attribute traffic before you write policy against it.
• Deployment - plan sizing, installation, and rollout before configuring use cases.