Well, I am testing out the SessionWall from CA recently. It seems to be a
pretty good tool with all the features you need for Intranet/Internet security,
which includes Constent filtering/Session block features. I think it might fit
to your requirement. The tool logs down all the http/ftp/icq/email activities,
if you have a big hard drive.
Anyone else has experience of implementing SessionWall would like to
share with us?
Roland Wang
China Websecurity.com Ltd
http://www.websecurity.com.cn
"Miss Yvette Seifert Hirth, CCP, CDP" wrote:
> Hi everybody!
>
> I would like to posit a question regarding content filtering. We have had
> several employees use IRC, ICQ, etc. as well as rather disgusting porno-type
> sites on company time. We'd like to prevent this.
>
> It changes the office environment severly and disrupts productivity when
> management is put in a position of cop/father and has to walk around
> snooping over what one would expect to be "professional" shoulders checking
> out what's on their terminal. The bottom-line is we'd like to trust people,
> but sadly, we can't. Some commentary on corporate operations, huh. I'm
> sure we're not the only site where this has occurred nor continues to occur.
> A friend of mine told me that this is "a harbinger of a much more serious
> problem", but he can't find office staff that don't have a tendency to
> behave like this either! Seems like a sign of the times, I guess.
>
> We've even gone so far as to consider DOS-based email and then deny people
> the use of Mozilla, MS's Outlook Express, Netscrape, etc. We turned
> thumbs-down on that, as once they get email, they can download any browser
> they want, thanks to sites like "netbutler", etc.
>
> What I'm asking is - does anyone have any experience with content filtering
> software? I've seen these "screening" programs, and wonder what kind of
> effectiveness they produce. Are they a bear to maintain? Are any sites
> victims of "false-positive" testing (i.e., screened when they shouldn't have
> been)? How many sites, percentage-wise, continue to slip through?
>
> Is there something better, like softs that run on firewalls? The problem
> with most of these screening programs is that they install on a user's PC,
> which would imply, to me, that they could be disabled. Installing a
> filtering mechanism on a firewall that's locked up with a password only a
> handful of people know would seem to be more "indefeatable".
>
> I'd really appreciate any experience anyone had; we're growing, and the
> problem is getting worse!
>
> TIA,
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