What is Content Filtering?

With the Content Filter you can control what type of traffic is allowed to flow on your network.

Example if you want to block torrents, Skype, Whatsapp, Network sharing tools or instant messaging tools.

 

Why is Content Filtering needed?

It is important to control the content on your network and know how your resources are being used.

Often, employees will tend to do private or illegal things in the work hours, due to boredom or other reasons.

This will waste valuable work hours and can possibly put you at risk if your network is being abused for downloading copyrighted materials.

Deploy a content filter on your corporate network to control in and outgoing traffic.

Set up a policy to determine what is allowed and by who. Easy setup with group policies and Active Directory LDAP User Management.

 
 

What does the Content Filtering consist off?

Included modules in the SecPoint Content Filter are:
 

Content Filtering technology is the best way to gain full control of what is allowed on your network and by who.

Setup time based policy to control fully who has access to the network in specific given times.

Web Content Filter

Web content filtering—also known as Internet content filtering or simply content filtering—is a process wherein online materials are either allowed to pass or blocked altogether based on the examination of its actual content instead of its source or other related filtering criteria.

This technique is most commonly used online to filter web access and email; it literally decides what a user can or cannot view according to how it's been configured.

Enable Parental control to block pornography and other x rated content

Content filters typically make use of mail headers like the subject of a message, the information contained within the message body, or the overall content of a given email to classify, reject, or accept a message.

The statistics-based Bayesian filter is incidentally the most popular type of content filter available.

The term "content filter" is wide-ranging in the sense that certain anti-virus approaches can be considered as content filtering as well, since some of them scan abridged versions of either HTML content or the binary attachments of email messages.

Parental control programs that examine data and then either restrict or change it (as with chat filtering) can also be considered as a content filter type as well.

Web Content Filter can protect from spyware, Trojans, malware

Creating complex and intelligent content filters with the cooperation of the majority of ISPs and a definite security standard may be the best solution to this manmade online epidemic.