It's Hard To Keep Up--We Can Help

Thursday, January 22, 2009, 4:21 pm

Times have changed. There was a time when you could put up a big URL list and block every distracting or inappropriate website your employees or students could ever think of going to.

Well, you can still do that, but now all the surfers have to do is use httpS instead of http, and they're off and surfing the bad waves again. Plus, half the content your users are accessing isn't even browser-based. You've got Bit Torrent, You Tube, Hulu, Pandora, whatever. So now it's not just content, but it's also bandwidth.

Did you know that? And even if you did know that, what's the solution? Most Internet filters fix the secure site problem by simply blocking secure traffic. Which is great until you actually need secure web traffic. What about bank sites? What about 401k sites? What about, you know, ALL the secure sites you use every day? Blocking all SSL traffic could cripple you.

The ContentProtect Security Appliance does what other products can't—It filters secure traffic, and it shapes bandwidth and applications. No more easy bypass. Including Anonymous Proxies, which we not only block, but actually detect. Sure, we can block You Tube, but we can also give your users carefully selected access and bandwidth. For example, we can give your teachers full pipe access, while your students only get 100k. Or nothing.

Consider this scenario: You're the administrator for a school where the students have laptops or workstations in class. Your teachers use YouTube all the time to present actual, relevant lesson material. You want your teachers to have access, but not the students.

However, we've found that some students (or employees), if completely blocked from YouTube (or Bit Torrent, or Hulu), go immediately to a secure proxy site to get around the filter.

We can help you TWO ways: first, we block and detect anonymous proxies. But second, we let you set your students' streaming access bandwidth to something like, say, 200k. They're not going to load many movies at that speed, but they're not going to go running to a secure proxy site either.

The web isn't what it was 10 years ago. Don't use an Internet Filter or Web Secure Gateway that thinks it is.

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