For us it's the obvious - stop people from getting to certain sites and categories of sites. The 2nd most important reason is logging/reporting.
From: Stu Sjouwerman [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, April 22, 2010 2:28 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Web filtering solutions - Additional Question Allright - make that 'web filter' instead of "we filter" LOL !! Warm regards, Stu Sjouwerman Co-Founder, Publisher, Sunbelt Media P: +1-727-562-0101 ext 218 F: +1-727-562-5199 [email protected] From: Stu Sjouwerman [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, April 22, 2010 5:21 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Web filtering solutions - Additional Question James, (and all) What is your Number One most important reason to have a we filter in place? Warm regards, Stu Sjouwerman Co-Founder, Publisher, Sunbelt Media P: +1-727-562-0101 ext 218 F: +1-727-562-5199 [email protected] From: James Rankin [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, April 21, 2010 12:19 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Web filtering solutions 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/> ~
