Clearswift Bluecoat Websense Ironport Barracuda Mcafee Sophos
AV yes yes no yes yes yes yes
Secondary Anti-spyware yes no no no no yes no
Reputation filtering no  no no yes no no no
URL filtering yes yes yes yes yes yes yes
Premium security group (malware) no  no yes no no yes no
File detection yes yes yes yes yes yes yes
Embedded file detection yes no no no no yes no
Text analysis Web page yes yes yes yes yes yes no
Text analysis Document yes no no no no yes no
Text analysis embedded Document yes no no no no yes no
NTLM authentication yes yes no yes yes yes yes
Kerberos Authentication yes yes no no yes yes No
Basic Authentication yes yes no yes yes yes No
HTTPS decryption yes yes yes yes yes yes yes
Reporting included as standard yes no yes yes yes no yes
Platforms hw/vm/sw hw hw/sw hw hw hw hw

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