Trustix™ Content Filtering Gateway Overview
20 minutes 'harmless' surfing per day costs businesses $8000 per week in lost productivity for a company employing 100 people.
Combine this with the cost of wasted bandwidth, the increased exposure to internet borne viruses and the fact that some content should never enter your network for legal and decency reasons, and it is clear that an effective content filter is fast becoming an essential productivity and security component of modern IT infrastructures.
Trustix™ Content Filtering allows you to easily set filters to control who can access web pages and when. The powerful online semantic content analyzer provides intelligent, real time analysis of target web pages and of the URL itself.
This is integrated with a database driven list based blocking service, enabling administrators to allow or deny access according to over 20 predefined categories. (-with the freedom to create your own, custom categories!!).
Ally this with the ability to define group and user access timetables and profiles, filtering by file type, filtering by protocol, pop-up blocking and custom URL black/white lists and you have the industry's most effective Web content protection.
Filtering policies are centrally managed from an intuitive and friendly web based interface, allowing you to deploy and configure settings in moments from any point on your network.
The Need For Effective Content Filtering
The internet has transformed the way we do business today. Unfortunately, it also presents a fresh set of challenges for administrators to deal with:
- Cumulative cost- 20 minutes per day 'harmless surfing' costs businesses $8000 per week in a company employing 100 people
- Business dilemma- denying unproductive/non- professional surfing whilst retaining access to essential online services
- Employee litigation- certain content should never be allowed to enter your network/business. You are liable to litigation should your employees be exposed to unsuitable material
- Multiple Content Examination- content can be delivered in to employees in many ways and needs to be classified effectively in order to allow/prohibit it - eg Trojans, viruses, spyware needs to be detected in a page/file and not inadvertently downloaded
- Defeat Browser based attacks- These attacks are unleashed when someone visits a web page that appears harmless, but actually contains hidden malicious code intended to sabotage a computer or compromise privacy. The result of the attack may be as simple as a crashed browser; or as serious as the theft of personal information or the loss of confidential proprietary data.
- Service Model Benefits- in order to filter the burgeoning, ever growing amount of web sites a company needs to out source its content filtering to a service model. They have huge databases and massive infrastructures that are better equipped to cope with such large demands. An individual company has neither the time nor the resources to handle such an undertaking (1000's of websites created daily)
Multiple Filtering Technologies
In order to successfully eliminate non-productive surfing, Trustix™ Content Filtering leverages several security technologies:
- 24 predefined categories- filter sites by selecting the category you wish to exclude
- Category Timetables - Define the times of the day that your selected categories can be accessed
- Limitation of maximum browsing time - define timetables that prescribe the maximum time a certain category can be browsed.
- Filtering by file type- eg audio, movie, .exe, images- your discretion as to what is allowed
- Filtering by- IP, IP range , users and user groups
- Authentication in Windows domains or by LDAP and Active Directory protocol.
- Filter using personal lists- specify your own list of excluded burls/ filter profiles
- Internet access withdrawal- ability to block access to internet after repeated attempts to access blocked categories/ burls/ imps/ restricted websites
- Extensive reports and logs- generation of detailed reports on attempted access and user activity reports
Trustix™ Content Filtering allows businesses to eliminate non-productive surfing whilst retaining access to essential online services. It has an industry leading filtering effectiveness of 97%, has minimal resource overhead, is scaleable to your needs and generates near immediate ROI.
