Web Content Filtering with Spyware & Malware Protection - SaaS

Enforcing an Internet Acceptable Use Policy

Content Filtering is only available as an add-on to the Spyware and Malware Protection Service.

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As the amount of time spent browsing the Internet continues to rise, the problems associated with providing unmonitored and unregulated Internet access steadily increase.

Web Filtering is a fully managed service that brings control to how your employees use the Internet, providing tools to create, enforce, and monitor the right Web policy for your organization. By layering granular, easy-to-implement filtering policies on a best-in-class URL database, you are able to enforce your acceptable usage policy, protecting you from the legal liabilities of inappropriate content, reducing bandwidth congestion, and improving employee productivity.

How it Works

By installing a small client program on each PC or by configuring each computer to use a Proxy Server, all the Internet traffic for Web and FTP are re-routed via the Content Filtering Servers. To utilise this Content Filtering module, you must first subscribe to the Malware Filtering Service see Malware filtering service.

Fast and Accurate

Web Filtering includes a comprehensive, industry-leading URL filtering database. Undesired content of any kind can be managed within the multiple categories of the filter database with Web sites placed in multiple categories where appropriate (e.g., Yahoo! films, Yahoo! shopping).

Millions of multi-lingual entries are updated and validated daily to ensure 100% accuracy. International domain names are fully supported and a breakdown of 53 categories ensures granularity and manageability. Updates are handled by our managed service with no effort, interruptions, or downtime for you, and a site notification system ensures accurate coverage of any customer-specific Web sites.

Web Filtering integrates seamlessly with your existing Active Directory infrastructure, allowing administrators to easily create different access policies to suit different areas of your organization - based on URL categories, content, and file types. You can audit and review comprehensive Web activity reports by user, department, or the entire organization - you choose the level of detail from high-level traffic and bandwidth statistics to a granular list of every URL accessed by each user. Administrators can control recreational access at defined times of the day and even ensure privacy compliance making user information disclosure optional.

Why use Web Content Filtering

• Protect your network and your staff from undesirable Web content
• Drive productivity by limiting time spent on recreational surfing
• Optimize network resources by reducing bandwidth congestion
• Monitor online activity with comprehensive reporting
• Ensure confidentiality by masking your usage to sites that collect information

Benefits of Web Filtering

• Over 20 million URLs individually categorized – 10% categorized as URL prefixes and 40% non-English
• Policy management by custom grouping, LDAP, and time-based policies
• Quota support by surfing time, bytes transferred, and number of connections
• Restrictions by over 50 Web categories
• Separate policies for filtering HTTPS Web traffic
• Allow/block lists for specific Web sites
• Control or block unclassified sites
• Over 40 predefined file types and over 20 predefined MIME types and customizable file types
• Early warning filtering and real-time scanning of search results through SearchAhead

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