| Content Filtering
- Productivity enhancement service
Today's businesses understand the
value of providing always-on Internet connections
for employees. At the same time, companies should
be concerned with where and how long employees
are surfing the Internet. ClearPath Networks'
URL and Content Filtering service, iGuardian,
provides a seamless shield of protection that
is secure, powerful, easy to manage and cost-effective.
With iGuardian, you can ensure that limited bandwidth
is reserved for approved activities while minimizing
liability risks and lost productivity of unregulated
surfing.
ClearPath maintains and updates
data tables with hundreds of thousands of URL
addresses that are classified by category type.
These definitions and all future updates are
incorporated within each SNAP
VPN or network-based
iVPN subscriber’s service.
Standard features include:
- White List filtering - web access is restricted
to specific URL addresses
- Black List filtering - free web surfing
access, except to specific URL addresses
Productivity enhancements:
- Usage
limits by the time of day (example: during
regular business hours)
- Usage limits by how much time per day (example:
limit personal surfing to 1 hour per day)
- Wildcard key word blocking (example: block
all sites with "sex" in the address)
- Flexibility to establish rules at individual
user level, or by user group (example: managers
provided wider access)
- Block downloads by file type (example: exclude
.MP3 downloads)
As part of an overall risk-management strategy,
iGuardian can play an important role in ensuring
that your employees are in compliance with your
company's Acceptable Use policies, and complement
the below generally accepted Internet usage policies:
- disclaimers warning against
the dangers of the Internet to prevent the
company from being held liable for material
viewed or downloaded
- a 'no expectation of privacy' statement
that waives privacy rights over any materials
sent or created using the company's computer
network
- documentation of network usage limitations that
outlines appropriate and inappropriate uses
of the computer network resources
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