Bob, We use the Surf Sentinel web content filtering product with our Gnatbox firewall. I am running the firewall with content filtering on an old Pentium 75, but we are a small office with only ten employees. I believe that when the firewall receives a web request, the url is checked against an external database (not sure of the company), and then either allowed or denied.
We've had one hickup in the service in the two years we have been using it. The one hickup was that the external database couldn't be reached for a couple of hours. From what I remember, this did not prevent users from accessing pages. The url request just couldn't be rated against the external database. We have the basic Surf Sentinel which doesn't provide us any reporting capabilities regarding the use. In other words, we just have filtering capabilities. There is a fairly extensive set of categories of different web sites that you can either allow or deny access. There is also a custom white list and a custom black list that you can use for the occasional exception to the category rule. We have only one content filtering rule that all users go through, however, I believe that you have the capability of customizing the content filtering rules (including categories) for different groups of users as you see fit. You could do a lot more with it than we have. They do offer a 30-day trial of the service. I know you said you tried it a while back, but I'm sure that you could talk them into another free trial. Hope some of this information helps. Sincerely, Mason Landrum CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION: Pursuant to State and Federal Law, the information that is being transmitted in this e-mail is confidential and legally privileged information and may not be reviewed by unauthorized parties. It is intended only for the use of the person listed as the recipient. If this information has been transmitted to you in error, please immediately notify the sender. -----Original Message----- From: Reasoner, Bob (PHES) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, September 28, 2005 9:01 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [gb-users] Product query I have used the GnatBox product for years and even played with their web content filtering a while back. Just curious if one or more of you might have comments on the AV and Web content filtering offerings available for use with the GBWare 3.7.0 product? I'm growing increasingly frustrated with the lack of growth on our current web content filter provider and would like opinions of performance with GTA's offerings. I have nearly 600 users that pass through the GBWare 3.7.0 product currently. Is the Database hosted locally or on someone else's sites? Thanks for any info you can provide! ________________________________ Bob Reasoner Harris County Public Health & Environmental Services ------------------------------------------------------ To unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://archives.gnatbox.com/gb-users/ ______________________________________________________________________ This email has been scanned by the MessageLabs Email Security System. For more information please visit http://www.messagelabs.com/email ______________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________ This email has been scanned by the MessageLabs Email Security System. For more information please visit http://www.messagelabs.com/email ______________________________________________________________________ ------------------------------------------------------ To unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://archives.gnatbox.com/gb-users/
