License
| Number of years |
2 year(s) |
| License quantity |
500 - 999 user(s) |
Webwasher URL Filter for ProxySG Appliances, 500-999 Users, 2 Years
URL filtering is a business imperative
According to IDC, up to 40% of Internet use in the workplace is not business related. And in a recent
FBI study, 78% of the companies surveyed reported that employees had abused Internet privileges
by downloading pornography or pirated software. (Source: ComputerWorld.) The inappropriate or
unauthorized use of Internet resources can seriously impact your business.
Decreased productivity while employees browse entertainment, news, and eCommerce sites.
Increased costs for your IT infrastructure to accommodate the non-productive bandwidth
consumed for personal browsing.
Legal exposure and fines due to copyright infringement or employee visits to inappropriate Web sites.
Webwasher URL Filter benefits
Secure Computing’s Webwasher helps you reduce non-business related surfing to a minimum.
Boost productivity:
- “Blocking” certain categories of Web sites (for example, pornography, gambling or extreme);
- Preventing malware and spyware from entering your network and blocking “phone-home” traffic;
- Suppressing distractions such as banner ads and targeted ads;
- Preventing downloads of bandwidthintensive files such as MP3, AVI, and MPEG.
Curb IT costs – Webwasher URL Filter can sharply reduce the use of bandwidth-intensive files, such as streaming media. This can significantly improve the performance of your business
applications while optimizing the use of network resources.
Minimize legal risks – Webwasher URL Filter effectively suppresses offensive sites and prevents downloads of inappropriate files, minimizing the risk of legal liabilities.
Comprehensive database provides numerous advantages
- Millions of entries – With millions of entries, Webwasher’s URL database is one of the
most comprehensive in its coverage of Web sites. A team with dozens of multi-lingual Web
analysts adds thousands of new URLs daily and validates existing entries on a regular basis;
- Quality counts – Webwasher is renowned for the quality of its database, which is generated
using unique analysis algorithms and continuously refined to ensure 100% accuracy;
- International domain names – Webwasher provides full support for the new international
domain names that include special characters (such as accents and umlauts);
- 64 categories – Webwasher’s tried-and-tested categorization schema of 64 categories
allows for a granular but manageable category-based Internet usage policy;
- Custom categories – Add your own entries to any one of Webwasher’s 64 categories or
create and populate your own user-defined categories;
- Frequent updates – Updates to your URL database are automatic, incremental, and nonintrusive.
Schedule updates hourly to ensure you receive the latest URL Filter changes from
the Webwasher servers without interrupting the service;
- Online feedback system – Webwasher provides a secure, online feedback system ensuring
accurate coverage of customer-specific Web sites;
- Cover all your bases – Along with the high quality and comprehensive database, we
provide a comprehensive set of tools and filters to meet your URL-filtering requirements;
- Real-Time Classifier – Identifies content that might evade other URL classification
methods. The combination of URL database filtering and real-time analysis ensures the most
accurate and scalable category enforcement.
Content filters
- Keyword filter – Restrict Web content based on user-defined words or phrases;
- Advertising filter – Eliminates pop-up windows and removes banner ads that reduce
productivity and consume bandwidth;
- Privacy filter – Protects against cookies, webbugs and referrers that can be used to spy on
your surfing habits and to gather personal information;
- Media-type filter – Enables you to prevent the download and execution of any file types you
choose, (for example MP3 files or executables). For additional security, you can allow or block
specific media types originating from untrusted sources (for example, to permit javaScript use
with an authorized banking site only).
Uploads can be blocked too, thereby stopping the dissemination of sensitive data. The files to
be blocked are thoroughly checked since file-type extensions may have been manipulated.
Easy to use for administrators
- One-click lockdown – Lets you instantly seal-off your network without affecting businesscritical
applications. At the first sign of a network attack, use one-click lockdown to activate a
secure, user-defined policy. For example, you can respond to a potential worm outbreak by
permitting access to business-critical applications and Web sites while blocking all other uses
of JavaScript and ActiveX controls;
- Time and volume quotas – Restrict Web site viewing by time of day (for example,
limiting personal surfing to after working hours), or set time-based quotas that permit
only a predefined amount of personal surfing (for example, to allow 15 minutes of
online shopping each day). You can also set limits on the size of downloaded files to reduce
network congestion;
- Coaching – Reduce the number of employee requests for policy exceptions by informing
users when potential violations are detected while allowing them to proceed if they believe
their activity is work-related;
- Straightforward remote configuration and management – Setup and manage your URL
filtering policy from a central browser-based console or a secure command line interface.
Webwasher’s unique intelligent security configurator guarantees optimal security settings.
This is especially useful in managing large and complex system environments;
- Unmatched flexibility for administrators – Define granular roles and permissions for
administrators and sub-administrators for deployments in hosted environments or ISPs;
- Proven scalability and performance – With Webwasher URL Filter, robustness and scalability
are not an afterthought. They are built right into the product. Large corporations choose
Webwasher for its ability to handle huge volumes of traffic at sites with up to 300,000 users;
- Fits smoothly into your IT landscape – Webwasher URL filter is designed to integrate
seamlessly into your IT environment, protecting investments in your existing network
infrastructure;
- Statistics at your fingertips with Content Reporter – Effectively securing and managing
enterprise networks requires an understanding of the peaks, trends, and events relating
to all network activity. Webwasher URL Filter includes one of the most powerful Internet
reporting facilities available—Webwasher Content Reporter—giving you a comprehensive
and actionable view of Internet activity;
- High performance – Webwasher Content Reporter is database-driven, processing huge
volumes of log data efficiently to generate reports at lightning speed;
- Complies with data privacy laws – If needed, personal data in reports (e.g., employee
names), can be made anonymous and encrypted so your company is protected against
potential labor law risks relating to the monitoring of private Internet surfing.
