Web Content Management/Filtering/Behaviour Blocking Reviews
Apr 14, 2006
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This unit is an appliance and is very complex from the moment you take it out of the box and plug it in.
Apr 14, 2006
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Clearswift's MIMEsweeper for Web applies the company's email filtering system to the internet. It will install on a single Windows 2000/2003 server and works as a web proxy, scanning all requests.
Apr 14, 2006
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This venerable product is, as one would expect from one with its pedigree, fully loaded with features. As well as a full-service customizable URL filter, SurfControl contains an anti-spam agent, spyware shield, instant messaging and peer-to-peer shields, anti-virus, and games protection. The differences between this product and our Best Buys are minimal and we rate SurfControl highly recommended.
Apr 14, 2006
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WebMarshal lacks documentation and an intuitive interface, which makes it very difficult to work with and configure.
Apr 14, 2006
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This is a very popular product and you can see why from the moment you insert the CD, all the way through to having it completely up and ready for use. Websense is easy to use and configure. The set-up wizard has very clear steps and leaves no doubt to the installer that the program is installing correctly.
Apr 14, 2006
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This was the second of our Best Buys. It is very simple to set up and work with.
Apr 14, 2006
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The sheer number of security threats to today’s businesses make a centralized approach to messaging and content security by far the most desirable, because it provides administrators with a more easily managed solution.
Aug 25, 2005
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The 2100 CF is a dedicated content filtering appliance. It has three Fast Ethernet ports – two sit transparently inline with your internet, the third is a dedicated management port.
Aug 25, 2005
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Fortinet's FortiGate-800 is the company's mid-range firewall. It uses FortiOS 3.0 (this is a correction from the incorrect v2.5 printed in the original article) and comes with antivirus and intrusion prevention as standard, both regularly updated.
Aug 25, 2005
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St. Bernard's iPrism 1200 is a 1U rack-mountable appliance. With clearly labelled network ports, it is very simple to connect to the network. St. Bernard also sells the iPrism 3000, which is aimed at larger organizations, with Gigabit Ethernet.
Aug 25, 2005
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Finjan Software's NG-5100 can be deployed as a single box, but the system supports a distributed environment where one appliance serves as a policy server, while others can scan through load balancing. It can sit as either a standard web proxy, in which case you have to reconfigure all client computers, or as a transparent web proxy.
Aug 25, 2005
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Clearswift's MIMEsweeper for Web applies the company's email filtering system to the internet. It will install on a single Windows 2000/2003 server and works as a web proxy, scanning all requests.
Aug 25, 2005
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NetIQ's WebMarshal now supports all versions of Windows server. The installation is simple, but you need an SQL server on the network. While this means that you have to factor this cost into the purchase, it means you can distribute the WebMarshal install for better performance and scalability. You can also run the database on the same PC, as we did for our test.
Aug 25, 2005
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Pearl Software's Echo 6 works in a slightly different way to the other products on test. Rather than blocking web traffic at the gateway, Echo uses a client/server approach. The server dictates the policy, while clients installed on each PC control internet access locally. While the server is very quick and easy to install, there's quite a lot of leg work involved in distributing the client to all of your network's computers.
Aug 25, 2005
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SurfControl's Web Filter is, perhaps, the best known web filtering product on the market. We reviewed the Windows version of the product, but there are also versions available for Cisco CE, Check Point, Microsoft ISA and several third-party appliances, including Blue Coat and Finjan, both in this test. The standard Windows version is flexible – but you will need one copy of the filter per network.
Aug 25, 2005
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Websense's Web Filtering application is part of its Websense Enterprise suite of tools. It requires a copy of Windows 2000/2003 Server and a compliant web server. We used it with Microsoft's IIS, but you can also use Apache.
Jul 4, 2005
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St Bernard Software's iPrism Model 3000 is as large and rugged as its canine namesake. Its 2U-height chassis has plenty of power available from its 3.20GHz Pentium 4 processor and 2GB RAM, so its bite is worse than its bark. Filtering up to 30Mbps of HTTP traffic, this is the big brother of the smaller iPrism 1200, reviewed previously.
Dec 21, 2004
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Radware's CertainT 100 device offers a variety of configurations in a standard 1U rack-mountable unit. Fiber and copper gigabit connections can be provided as required. Our unit had one 10/100 Base-T connector and one 1000 Base-TX connector, but a 10/100/1000 Base-SX connector could have replaced the copper connection if needed.
Jul 1, 2003
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The SmartFilter product from Secure Computing was one of the earliest products to perform category-based URL filtering. Now in version 3.2, the basic principles of the product remain, with performance and management improvements aimed at making the task of controlling web access as simple as possible.
SmartFilter is intended to sit on a web proxy behind a firewall, or on the firewall itself. The product comprises agents that reside on the gateways, a management server that runs on Windows, Solaris and Linux servers, and a management console which can run on the same platforms. The server and console components are both Java based.