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?

• Anti Free Mail

  This blocks access to official free email providers such as Hotmail, Yahoo Mail, Google's Gmail, and so on. The use of free email providers can often indicate employees checking their private email during working hours

• Anti Game

  It is often a tempting to play network games such as Counter Strike CS GO, doom or other network games during work hours.

• Instant Message Recording

  This provides monitoring of the usage of MSN Instant Messaging to see if your employees are communicating with your business customers or with their friends.

• Anti Instant Message

  If your security policy disallows all sorts of instant messengers, then this module can be used to block programs such as MSN Instant Messenger, Yahoo Messenger, Google Chat, Skype Chat, and so forth.

• Anti VoIP

  This allows the blocking of services like Skype, Yahoo Talk, Google Talk, VoIP usage, and lots more. Employees can be talking to non-work-related contacts during work hours or even leak sensitive information without your knowledge.

• Anti P2P

  If your security policy requires you to block all P2P file sharing services like BitTorrent, eDonkey2000, Emule, Kazaa, and Napster, then you should enable this module. Those programs are often used to share copyrighted materials such as music or movies. If this is done in your corporate perimeter, you will become responsible for this dilemma once a raid is started. In some countries, ISPs will outright close down the Internet connection of a guilty business, so such a case can become a very costly affair.

• File Filter

  This option blocks downloading of specific file formats such as *.exe, *.zip, or *.rar files depending on the supervisor’s choice. This applies to emails, web browsing, and other protocols.

• Protocol Filter

  This allows blocking of specific protocols in your network. In some locations, POP3 traffic is forbidden since this is often used by employees to check their private email in working hours. You can customize which protocols to block as well.

• Block Websites

  This allows blocking of websites of your choice. Often, employees will spend hours daily to read news sites, gossips, and websites of personal interest during working hours.

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.