Content Filtering

This area has evolved not only to monitor employee usage but also to prevent against threats, provide application authorization and compliance, as well as generate relevant reports for telecom, security, senior management, and audit teams.  Current enterprise solutions provide the following features:

• Easily establish flexible internet use policies while being able to provide settings for: Allow, Block, Continue, Quota, Block by Bandwidth, and Block by File Type options for managing web access; filter sites based on time of day.
• Set policies for file types and over 80 application protocols, including email, file transfer, remote access, streaming media, instant messaging (IM), and peer-to-peer (P2P) protocols.
• Rules based by Directories exist such as:  Microsoft Windows Active Directory, Sun Java System Directory Server, and Novell eDirectory accessed via Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP), RADIUS, and even in Citrix environments.
• Industry-leading reporting tools analyze and track internet use throughout the organization.
• Helps ensure compliance with privacy policies, union regulations, and other laws by maintaining the privacy and anonymity of users when logging their activities.
• Enables organizations to optimize their network bandwidth by prioritizing and managing traffic in real-time.

Allows role based access for administrative tasks across departments, groups, or locations to increase visibility within individual areas and to reduce the burden on IT.