Web Filtering

Today's Internet Creates New Challenges

Organizations initially deployed web filtering solution on firewalls or web proxies to reduce exposure to legal liabilities, prevent loss in productivity and manage bandwidth use by controlling access to various web sites. Today, the web also presents myriad security challenges to businesses - spyware, phishing scams, malicious code, rootkits, worms, and more. These web security risks are important drivers for web filtering solutions today.

The change in nature of Internet traffic, threats and business challenges has necessitated a next generation Internet security solution. Internet communications have evolved from point-to-point channels such as email to real-time, presence-oriented communications like IM, P2P file-sharing, Skype, and web conferencing - what FaceTime terms greynet applications. Many of these applications use evasive methods to communicate and often use the web as their transport medium. With Web 2.0 and social networking sites, the browser became a medium for the users to exchange information in real-time by integrating these collaborative technologies. There are hundreds of social networking site - with some of them evolved to delivering applications. Since existing security infrastructure often allows web traffic without performing deep inspection, HTTP has become an effective channel for greynet applications to circumvent company acceptable use policies.

• Web Filtering - monitor and control employee access to web sites without impacting network performance
• IM Security - manage and secure all public and enterprise IM use against external threats and information leakage
• Malware Prevention - stop spyware, rootkits, worms and blended threats at the Internet gateway before they impact the business
• Peer-to-Peer Control - block inappropriate use of P2P networks that consume bandwidth and create legal exposure

Available on FaceTime Unified Security Gateway, web filtering from FaceTime comes integrated with two industry leading databases - FaceTime WebFilter and Secure Computing's SmartFilter™ Web filtering databases operating on an appliance platform designed to detect and interpret all Internet activity with zero latency. Enterprises can manage employee use of all Internet channels-both greynets and the Web including granular control of social networking sites-with a single solution using unified policy management. With FaceTime, organizations can implement powerful policies to control and secure web traffic to prevent inbound malware threats, minimize information leakage and control employee Internet use. FaceTime web filtering offers:

• Single point of policy enforcement and management for web traffic and real-time Internet traffic
• Manage access to and use of applications within social networking sites like Facebook according to established acceptable use policies
  • Lower the risks from inbound threats and outbound data leakage
  • Meet employee needs without impacting productivity or security
  • Maintain regulatory compliance through logging and archival.
• Keep protection on track with dynamic updates of new social networking sites and applications hosted by those sites
• Industry leading URL database - FaceTime WebFilter with over 21 million sites in 54 predefined categories and SmartFilter from Secure Computing with over 7 million URLs in 73 predefined categories
• Integration with Active Directory to enforce web access policies at user and group levels using a single sign-on experience for end users
• Custom policies based on location, groups, users, file extenstions and content types
• Malware (spyware, phishing, blended treats, etc.) prevention at the gateway before they impact the business
• Automated malware signature updates from FaceTime Security Labs - industry leading greynet threats research team
• Powerful reporting available on-box and off-box using SmartReporter and other 3rd party reporting tools to generate pre-defined and customized reports

Learn more about Unified Security Gateway, FaceTime's purpose-built solution that enables the safe and productive use of web and greynet applications in the enterprise.