Enterprise gateway security firm Secure Computing boosted its reporting capabilities today with the launch of a new tool to help firms gain greater insight into their web traffic and improve security, compliance and performance.

Secure Web Reporter is comprised of the firm's SmartReporter and Content Reporter tools and enables administrators to view enterprise data, such as web surfing and downloading activity and amount of malware blocked, in real-time.

With this information, firms can then change security policies and investigate potential problems, according to Secure's Mike Smart.

"There's been a massive surge in threats targeted at the web," he said. "A lot of people are struggling to make sense of it – but this tool helps you to do this."

The Premium version of the product also features distributed reporting functionality to help spread the reporting burden throughout an organisation, and the ability to produce highly configured reports, said Smart.

In related news security vendor Kaspersky Lab has expanded its hosted offering to include web and instant messaging security.

Kaspersky Hosted Security Services previously contained just anti-spam and anti-virus capabilities.