iboss Cloud vs Squid

iboss Cloud is a cloud-native Zero Trust SASE platform aimed at enterprise, government, and K-12 education. Its capabilities include Secure Web Gateway, CASB, ZTNA, DLP, browser isolation, and SD-WAN. Zero Trust Core lists web filtering, URL categorization, basic CASB controls, HTTPS decryption, device posture checks, and SAML or OIDC integration. Advanced adds private access to internal applications, adaptive access policies, identity-based micro-segmentation, SIEM log forwarding, and advanced threat protection. That protection includes malware sandboxing, behavioral analysis, phishing protection, and more than 100 real-time threat feeds. Complete adds AI-powered CASB, SSPM and DSPM, advanced DLP policies, OCR for DLP, and intrusion prevention. Cloud Connector agents are listed for Windows, Mac, iOS, Chromebooks, Linux, and Android. Identity integrations include Azure AD, Okta, Ping, and SAML- or OIDC-compatible providers. Pricing is on request, and the pricing page directs prospective customers to request a demo rather than displaying plan prices.

Squid is a self-hosted caching proxy for web traffic. It keeps commonly requested pages and other supported data available for reuse, helping reduce bandwidth and improve response times. Squid handles HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, and gopher data; supported cache engines also include ICP and HTCP. Administrators can apply access controls and use full request logging. Squid can accelerate servers, direct content among web servers, and organize content clusters for load balancing. Multiple caches can be connected as a mesh or hierarchy through parent and sibling links. Proxy authentication options include Basic, NTLM, Digest, and Negotiate, with bundled helpers for LDAP, SQL databases, PAM, RADIUS, and Windows domains. Basic authentication encodes credentials with Base64 rather than encrypting them, so credentials are effectively cleartext between browser and proxy. Squid is free to download, use, and modify, and is distributed under GPL version 2, with some components under compatible open-source licenses. It is available for Linux, macOS, and Windows, with installation through operating-system packages, source releases, and binaries. Documentation, a wiki, bug tracking, and mailing lists are available.