Jon's Network

Web filtering vendor 8e6 Technologies merged with email security vendor Marshal in late 2008. They promptly changed the name to Marshal8e6. They just changed it again to M86 Security, which is much, much better.

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The 8e6 Professional Edition offers high-performance, enterprise-level filtering with the R3000 Internet Filter. An appliance optimized for speed and scalability, the R3000 provides 90+ categories and millions of Web sites in the 8e6 Database. Deployed in “pass-by” or transparent mode, the R3000 sits outside the flow of network traffic to “watch” rather than “stop and check”, delivering unmatched network compatibility and performance.

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Interesting limitation on the 8e6 AD integration For the AD Agent, it is currently has only been released for Active Directory environments with 2200 users or less.

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Stan Trevena, IT director for Modesto City Schools, penned The Internet Filtering Battlefield and describes the constant struggle to keep student and faculty behavior inline with the acceptable use policy. This is important to keep students safe and to keep the district out of legal trouble. It is a great article that explains exactly how [...]

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I’m working with a midsize business looking to ditch their Surfcontrol/ISA setup. They want an inline filtering appliance and have already looked at Barracuda and 8e6 Technologies. The problem is they want most of the users filtered transparently (bridge mode proxy) and some using an explicit proxy. Barracuda needs two boxes to do this (one [...]

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