ScanSafe Web Filtering

Overview:

As the amount of time spent browsing the Internet continues to rise, the problems associated with providing unmonitored and unregulated Internet access steadily increase. The concern surrounding this increase is compounded by a fundamental shift in the type of content being accessed - rather than traditional static content, dynamic and user generated content now makes up a large percentage of content being accessed.

Dynamic or user generated content is normally authored by the owner of the website that displays it, and therefore, traditional methods of filtering based purely on website categorization can no longer be considered sufficient to maintain web usage policy and prevent inappropriate content from entering the network.

Why Web Filtering?

• Protect your network and your staff from undesirable Web content
• Drive productivity by limiting time spent on recreational surfing
• Optimize network resources by reducing bandwidth congestion
• Monitor online activity with comprehensive reporting

Cloud-based Web Filtering

Cloud-based Web Filtering, the award-winning solution from ScanSafe empowers organizations of all sizes to implement an effective Web policy to help limit legal liability, enhance user productivity, and improve network performance by preventing inappropriate, bandwidth intensive or non-business related content from entering the network.

Enabled in-the-cloud, ScanSafe Web Filtering enables businesses to implement granular control for both inbound and outbound communications while realizing cost savings of up to 40% by eliminating the need to purchase, deploy and maintain hardware required for onpremise solutions. ScanSafe Web Filtering allows businesses to be in complete control of how end users access content on the Internet by providing intuitive tools to create, enforce, and monitor effective inbound and outbound web policy.

Fast and Accurate

ScanSafe Web Filtering offers granular control over all Web content, including SSL encrypted communications, utilizing multiple techniques including real-time dynamic web content classification, an industry-leading URL filtering database, file type filters and early warning filtering and real-time scanning of search results with SearchAhead. With categorization of websites into over 50 categories with global coverage and multi-language domain support, ScanSafe Web Filtering offers a truly effective solution for managing Web access regardless of location or how end users access the Internet.

As well as offering granular inbound web policy, ScanSafe Web Filtering enables an integrated outbound policy to help prevent leaks of confidential or personal data to the web, which in turn limits the potential exposure to bad press, lawsuits and financial penalties. Policy can be constructed around multiple factors including dictionaries, preconfigured IDs and regular expressions.

ScanSafe Web Filtering integrates seamlessly with existing Active Directory infrastructure, allowing administrators to easily create different access policies to suit different areas of the organization.

Centralized Management & Reporting

ScanSafe Web Security is managed through an intuitive web-based interface, ScanCenter, which integrates all management and reporting capabilities. Through ScanCenter, a global web security policy can be created and enforced across the organization, even down the group or user level and any edits to the policy are rolled-out in real-time.

ScanCenter offers reporting with overview data, ongoing trending and forensic audits.

Complete Protection from Remote Workers

ScanSafe Web Filtering also offers centralized policy for the whole organization, regardless of locatio. As well as protecting end users that reside within corporate offices, remote workers can be protected to the same level using Anywhere+, whether they are working from home, from a hotel or even from a coffee shop. Anywhere+ automatically redirects users to the closest datacenter, ensuring that performance is always optimized.

Optional Protection against Zero-Day Threats and Web Malware

ScanSafe Web Filtering can be augmented by the addition of Web Malware Scanning which analyzes every Web request to determine if the requested content contains any malicious threat or intent and prevents this content from reaching the network. This will help ensure the security of confidential and personal data and eliminate the time and resources required to remediate any infected computers.

Secure Search

Our SearchAhead feature scans search result Web pages in real-time and overlays an organization’s Web usage policy to educate employees on the safe and responsible use of the Web. For the first time, users are protected while searching the Web and warned of any unsafe links before they click, ensuring they do not inadvertently visit inappropriate or infected sites.

Features and Benefits:

Benefits

• Limit legal liability by controlling access to inappropriate Web content
• Optimize network resources by reducing bandwidth consumption
• Enhance productivity by limiting non-business related Web activity
• Limit exposure to financial and other penalties related to the loss of confidential data
• Understand and control how your network resources are being utilized

Features

• Control all Web-based traffic including SSL encrypted communications
• Prevent confidential data from leaving the network
• Ensure safe search engine results
• Granular reporting on all aspects of Web usage

How It Work:

Our Web Filtering service includes SearchAhead, the industry's first safe search tool that allows companies to alert employees before they visit unsafe search results.  SearchAhead scans results from popular search engines Google, Yahoo! and MSN, providing advance warning of any malware and guidance on acceptable or unacceptable websites, based on the customer's Web filtering policies.

By layering granular, easy-to-implement Web filtering policies onto multiple, industry leading and proprietary databases, Web Filtering is 100% safe, effective and educational in promoting responsible Web usage for employees.

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Documentation:

Download the ScanSafe Web Filtering Datasheet (PDF).