Web Filtering
Why Web 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
Web Filtering is more than just making sure employees aren't wasting time. It's about making sure they don't put the organization at risk.
Search engines are an essential tool in the workplace, yet they can also be an Achilles' heel in corporate Web filtering policies. One in five result pages contained either malware or offensive content. If not managed correctly, Web use can cause productivity loss, bandwidth congestion and also represent risk vectors for information leakage and legal threats.
ScanSafe Web Filtering is a comprehensive and fully managed service that puts you in control of how your employees use the Internet. We provide you with easy-to-use tools to create, enforce, and monitor the right Web usage policy for your organization.
How It Works
Our Web Filtering service includes SearchAhead, the industry's first safe search tool that allows companies to alert employees before they visit unsafe search results. SearchAhead scans results from popular search engines Google, Yahoo! and MSN, providing advance warning of any malware and guidance on acceptable or unacceptable websites, based on the customer's Web filtering policies.
By layering granular, easy-to-implement Web filtering policies onto multiple, industry leading and proprietary databases, Web Filtering is 100% safe, effective and educational in promoting responsible Web usage for employees.
Web Filtering Checklist
- Millions of 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 multiple Web categories
- Separate policies for filtering HTTPS Web traffic
- Allow/block lists for specific Web sites
- Control or block unclassified sites
- Dynamic Classification scans the content of new websites in real-time
- Over 40 predefined file types and over 20 predefined MIME types and customizable file types
- User-definable block screens
- Early warning filtering and real-time scanning of search results through SearchAhead
- Over 20 preset summary reports, as well as multiple reports created on-the-fly and preset scheduled reports emailed as PDF
- User auditing by allowed and blocked traffic
- Monitor administrator policy changes through extensive auditing
- Privacy feature for anonymized logging