Wednesday, August 18, 2010
Protect your Office with Content Filtering
A high end firewall with content filtering will allow you to limit your staff’s internet usage. These devices physically block your computers from communicating with malicious computers/sites. The firewall content filtering subscription will update its malicious website definitions in real time and will not allow your computers to visit these sites. It will also allow you to block potential time wasters such as social networking and shopping websites. It is our observation that many staff members waste untold hours each year on social networking, shopping and other personal web sites. Not only is this a waste of resources it puts your computers and data at risk. You will be able to block websites by category and specific sites. A nice firewall also lets you choose which computers are monitored.
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Along this topic, a good and inexpensive option to consider is OpenDNS. They allow you to reroute all Internet site requests to their Directory Name Servers (that is the DNS part of their name), and if the sites are not approved the request then (virtually) never leaves your building. There are various options: you can use their basic free service which offers some content filtering and corrects basic mistakes such as typing "ww." instead of "www." They also offer accounts where you can choose greater control over what is secured. And there are options to protect single computers or install on the router to apply settings the entire network.
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