Web Filtering Moves to the Cloud

Zscaler, a new security company by a noted serial entrepreneur, brings Web filtering into the cloud, allowing employers to more easily manage which Web sites workers can visit and what they can download to the corporate network.

Web filtering software is moving to the cloud — that all-knowing, pervasive, sometimes unreliable cluster of computers in the digital ether — and it’s going to watch your every move online and tattle to your boss.