Deploying Cloud SWG

Cloud SWG solution enables web traffic filtering when a SmartEdge agent cannot be deployed on the end user's machine, such as for Guest users or IoT devices or when the organization does not want to deploy an agent.

Forcepoint ONE SSE Cloud SWG supports following proxies to forward traffic from known locations to Cloud SWG:

• Transparent Proxy - In order to filter the web traffic, the Cloud SWG routes the customer's web traffic from one or more known location(s) over the tunnel to the Forcepoint cloud, where SWG functionality is implemented. The Cloud SWG implements a transparent proxy meaning that a PAC file is not required on the end user devices to forward traffic to it.
• Explicit Proxy - In order to filter the web traffic, PAC file installed on end user device is used to forward the web traffic from one or more known location(s) to the Forcepoint cloud, where Cloud SWG Explicit Proxy functionality is implemented.