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 [...]
Tags: 8e6 · Blue Coat · Secure Computing · Web Filtering · Web Proxy · Webwasher
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 [...]
Tags: Malware · Security · Web Filtering · Web Proxy · Webwasher · podcast
Oliver Braekow, Webwasher product manager for Secure Computing, was the guest of the first Jon’s Network Podcast.
Oliver explains how, using their SSL scanner module, Webwasher prevents malware from using HTTPS to communicate. It will also prevent users from bypassing traditional web content filters using popular CGI proxies. This is important to keep sensitive [...]
Tags: Anti-Virus · Malware · Security · Web Filtering · Web Proxy · Webwasher · podcast
