Cisco announced the other day their intent to acquire ScanSafe:
http://newsroom.cisco.com/dlls/2009/corp_102709.html
ScanSafe was sold by Google, Verizon, Sprint and a host of others, and was generally regarded as a good in-the-cloud web filtering service for small businesses. Over the past year or two, I’ve heard some reports of their inability to perform in larger enterprises.
If this Cisco announcement doesn’t validate the space, I don’t know what would. For now, I still like the Zscaler offering for the large enterprise, and expect that Websense will have a stronger offering soon for large companies with their hosted offering. Purewire (acquired by Barricuda) and Secure Computing (now part of McAfee) I don’t know enough about, but seem a bit behind Zscaler in ability to scale.
Let me know your thoughts.
