Jon’s Network

Along the lines of the free filtering you get when you use OpenDNS (that I mentioned here and here), Blue Coat has a free client designed to run on home computers:

K9 Web Protection - Free Internet Filtering and Parental Controls Software

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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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Web Filtering by Bloxx - Internet Monitoring Products

This company looks like they have combined Vericept-like analysis with URL filtering in a single solution, but instead of merely logging everything, they actually block based on content. Not sure how well it works yet.

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A school district just told me about this anonymizer proxy that uses Flash. This URL is in the Websense database (I didn’t test it against any others) but I’m wondering if any vendors can detect this technique without blocking Flash altogether.

flashform

UPDATE: The thing doesn’t work right now, so never mind.

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Some interesting new research out of ETH Zürich showed that Firefox’s Auto-Update mechanism works the best at keeping users updated with the latest and safest version compared to all other major browsers. The report, Understanding the web browser threat, used Google’s browser data from the last 18 months to figure out a lower bound [...]

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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 users [...]

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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 [...]

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It was a while ago, but Alice LaPlante lamented the run-in her daughter had with a porn site squatting on a typo of craigslist.com. While it wasn’t available at the time, concerned parents like Alice can use OpenDNS to protect you from inadvertently accessing porn sites and phishing sites. It also speeds your web [...]

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In June, OpenDNS announced a partnership with St. Bernard Software to offer OpenDNS users the option to filter their network traffic for phishing sites and various adult categories using St. Bernard’s iGuard URL filtering. All you have to do is point to the OpenDNS servers and they do the rest.

This is a perfect [...]

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How do we protect companies from malware that no one has ever seen before?

In this podcast we touch briefly on the well-known malware problem and how Webwasher tackles it at the gateway with their Anti-Malware Module. Using a combination of signatures, heuristics and behavior analysis (proactive detection in marketing lingo), they can stop more [...]

 

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