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:

• 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.
• 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 has become a medium for users to exchange information in real-time by integrating these collaborative technologies, many of which deliver applications
• 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:

• Single point of policy enforcement and management for web, real-time Internet and Web 2.0 application 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
• Automated updates of new social networking sites, applications and malware signatures to stay protected
• 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
• 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 extensions and content types
• Malware (spyware, phishing, blended treats, etc.) prevention at the gateway before it impacts the business
• 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.