Web caching with security as a service

Logic encoded in one or more non-transitory computer-readable media that includes code for execution and when executed by a processor is operable to perform operations comprising:

• receiving, within a network, identity-based security information from a security as a service server outside the network;
• receiving, from an identified source, a request for content cached within the network;
• determining that the content is cached within the network, the cached content comprising content filtered by the cloud-based security as a service;
• verifying, with the identity-based security information, that the identified source is allowed access to the filtered content cached within the network;
• and
• providing the content to the identified source.

A method comprising:

• receiving, at a security service processor, a request for content from a host in an enterprise network;
• requesting the content from a web server;
• receiving from the web server the content in response to the request;
• filtering, by the security service processor, the content received from the web server;
• adjusting a freshness setting of the content, the freshness setting corresponding to caching;
• transmitting the content with the adjusted freshness setting to the enterprise network as a response to the request;
• and
• transmitting an identity-based security policy to a cloud connector in the enterprise network for providing the content from cache within the network using the identity-based security policy.