Perhaps I've mised updates and such, but, I was of the understanding that
all these sweet little content filters for the web were susecptable to url
obfuscations that allowed one to bypass them.
Thanks,
Ron DuFresne
On Wed, 6 Jun 2001, David Ishmael wrote:
> Richard,
>
> Are you looking for a stand-alone application or a combination of
> firewall/content filter? We ran a PIX firewall for a firewall and used (I
> think it was called) WebTrends. The speed was in how it worked. The
> firewall would get a packet destined for bad-site.com and would send the
> packet on as well as a packet to WebTrends asking for the acceptance policy.
> By the time the response came back from bad-site.com it had already gotten a
> response from WebTrends to either permit or deny responses from that site.
> If it was allowed the response passed through the firewall, if not the user
> was sent a custom URL that said that the site was restricted. Highly
> configurable and fast...
>
> I'm sure there are ton's of good stand-alone solutions out there...good
> luck! ;)
> David Ishmael, CCNA, IVCP
> Senior Network Management Engineer
> Windward Consulting Group, Inc.
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Richard Ginski
> Sent: Wednesday, June 06, 2001 2:11 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Content Filtering
>
>
> Hello Everyone,
>
> Sorry in advance for being slightly off topic.
> We are an organization of approximately 4000 users. I have been asked to
> find a technology which can prevent users from browsing bad sites. I am
> somewhat familiar with content filtering products. However, my biggest fear
> is latency. Can anyone recommend who I should check out regarding content
> filtering products?
>
> PS: If it also prevented the execution of harmful (only harmful) JAVA
> based and Active X based code..it would be a plus.
>
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