Web filtering

Managing internet usage

Using the internet for personal reasons, or visiting dangerous sites, can be very unproductive for a business. Facebook, email and Twitter have a habit of eating into your staff's productivity. We can make it simple to deploy solutions that reduce legal liability, boost your productivity, and conserve precious bandwidth for business activities.

At a glance

• Flexible control and monitoring of internet usage
• Specific sites, times, or types of usage controlled
• Defend against subtle attacks on your IT security

Benefits of controlling internet usage

Applying appropriate controls on your staff's use of the internet can eliminate wasted time and allow you to monitor it. These controls can also help avoid tricky HR issues and legal action arising from inappropriate material in the workplace.

Restricting staff from disreputable and compromised web sites reduces security risks and downtime from viruses.

Appropriate usage

Whilst most companies don't want to restrict staff completely from personal internet usage, many want to limit it to appropriate levels. Our web filtering system can be set to restrict access to certain sites during certain hours, apply different rules to different people or computers, or set quotas. This can cover browsing web sites, chatting on instant messenger clients, or even Twittering.

Security

The most common means of attacking a company's IT security is now through web sites. Web pages can hold viruses, password stealers, and other malware, and can install them without the user noticing. Whilst some disreputable sites are obvious - those with adult or illegal content - the latest generation of hackers have breached some very reputable and high profile sites and booby-trapped them for unsuspecting visitors.

Our systems can block sites that are known to be bad and filter web content to defend against compromised ones.