Jon’s Network

I know a company that recently paid a premium for Websense because of a single feature: An alert is sent to an administrator each time a user visits an unauthorized website.

Most (all?) filters can report on such activity after the fact, but many don’t have the real-time alerting feature that this customer felt was so valuable.

This is an example of using feature vectors rather than feature matrices to compare products. Comparing a single most important feature across products is simple, fast and minimizes distraction by features that aren’t relevant to the problem at hand.