The TMG URL filtering is pretty good, but I doubt it will be any less costly than SmartFilter.
There are cloud-based filtering options these days; McAfee offers a SmartFilter cloud and AT&T has one too. -Malcolm -----Original Message----- From: Joseph Heaton [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, April 21, 2010 09:43 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Web filtering solutions Microsoft Threat Management Gateway is the new name for ISA... could look at that. >>> James Rankin <[email protected]> 4/21/2010 9:19 AM >>> We are looking to cut costs at the minute and the issue of our web filtering solution has come up. Currently we use WebSense Enterprise in a mixed Citrix / Xen / VMWare View environment which makes the WebSense implementation a little challenging at the best of times. We're not bothered about whether it is a hardware or software solution, but ease of setup is probably a primary factor in our needs. Does anyone have any particular recommendations, or know of any solutions that we should avoid like the plague? All of our users are on Windows of one sort or another, and we'd probably like something that had half-decent reporting - but as I said, the ease of setup is most likely the biggest factor in our equation. TIA for any suggestions, JRR -- "On two occasions...I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
