Web Filtering
Today's Internet Creates New Challenges
Organizations initially deployed web filtering solutions 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 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 changing nature of Internet traffic,
threats and business challenges has necessitated a next generation web filter
solution for several reasons:
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Internet communications have evolved from point-to-point channels such as email
to real-time, presence-oriented communications applications like IM, P2P
file-sharing, Skype, and web conferencing.
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Many of these applications use evasive methods to communicate and often use the
web as their transport medium
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With Web 2.0 and social networking sites, the browser has become a medium for
users to exchange information in real-time by integrating these collaborative
technologies, many of which deliver applications
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Since existing security infrastructure often allows web traffic without
performing deep inspection, HTTP has become an effective channel for these
applications to circumvent company acceptable use policies
Available on Unified Security
Gateway, FaceTime provides two industry leading web filtering databases
- FaceTime WebFilter and Secure Computing's SmartFilter™ - 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--including web browsing, web applications and social networking
sites--using unified policy management to prevent inbound malware threats,
minimize information leakage and ensure productive employee Internet use.
FaceTime’s Unified Security Gateway provides web filtering and more:
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Single point of policy enforcement and management for web, real-time Internet
and Web 2.0 application traffic
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Manage access to and use of applications within social networking sites like
Facebook according to established acceptable use policies
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Lower the risks from inbound threats and outbound data leakage
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Meet employee needs without impacting productivity or security
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Maintain regulatory compliance through logging and archival
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Automated updates of new social networking sites, applications and malware
signatures to stay protected
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Industry leading URL databases - 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
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Integration with Active Directory to enforce web access policies at user and
group levels using a single sign-on experience for end users
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Custom policies based on location, groups, users, file extensions and content
types
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Malware (spyware, phishing, blended treats, etc.) prevention at the gateway
before it impacts the business
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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 in the enterprise.
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