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Proxy Agent
A proxy agent connects a management system to an unmanaged device, which allows management by proxy. The proxy agent serves as a middleman and appears to users as part of the server itself, making it much more secure.
What Small and Midsize Businesses Need to Know About Proxy Agent
SMBs benefit from using proxies in several ways. A proxy agent hides a company’s IP address, which makes it difficult four outside entities to hack their systems. Internet load times are often faster with a proxy agent and the administrator can program it to block questionable websites.
Related terms
- Haptics
- WAN (Wide-Area Network)
- Intranet
- SLO (Service-Level Objective)
- Security Orchestration, Automation and Response (SOAR)
- Scalability
- Service-Level Agreement (SLA)
- Software as a Service (SaaS)
- Identity and Access Management (IAM)
- Data Center
- Augmented Reality (AR)
- Synchronous
- Multitenancy
- Chief Information Officer (CIO)
- IT Services
- Authorization
- Service-oriented Architecture (SOA)
- Platform as a Service (PaaS)
- Managed Service Provider (MSP)
- Security Information and Event Management (SIEM)
