Forcepoint Web Security Cloud – Announcing Localized Google Services

PRODUCT
Forcepoint Web Security Cloud
WHAT’S HAPPENING?
Forcepoint is pleased to announce the release of Localized Google Services usingX-Forwarded-For (XFF) header.

WHAT PROBLEM DOES THIS SOLVE?
In the past, Forcepoint Web Security Cloud customers located in a country that does not have a Forcepoint Point of Presence would receive Google search results that are not localized to their country.  With Forcepoint’s Localized Google Services, now their Google search results will be localized to the country in which the request was originated.

Example: A user in Korea would, in the past, see Google results in Japanese, localized to Japan, because their web traffic is proxied by the Forcepoint Tokyo Point of Presence.  Now, with Localized Google Services, that customer will see their results in Korean, localized to Korea.

HOW DOES IT WORK?
With Release 6 of Forcepoint Web Security Cloud (released November 14),Forcepoint inserts the user’s connection IP address address (usually the internet address of their firewall) into the X-Forwarded-For (XFF) header.  In addition, Google has agreed to use our XFF header for localization purposes.  Thus, Google services will be localized to the user’s IP address.

WHAT DOES THE CUSTOMER NEED TO DO TO ENABLE?
The customer needs to enable decrypting of https traffic for web categories that match Google sites, such as “Search Engines and Portals”.  Many customers do this already.  No browser changes are needed.

COMPETITIVE NOTE
This technology gives us an advantage over Symantec/BlueCoat and Cisco, who do not have this capability.  Zscaler appears to be the only competitor who has this capability with Google. 

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