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Web sites are increasingly being used as vehicles to transmit viruses, spyware and adware, and malicious software. Network performance suffers if users open high-bandwidth sites like streaming video or download large files. The biggest threat from web browsing isn’t from the web at all; it’s users, wasting time browsing, shopping, viewing offensive or explicit content, or illegally downloading music or software.
IT admins need to take control over Internet content by controlling what users can access. Most web filters identify specific domains or IP addresses to block. LivePrism is a hosted Internet filter software package that grants administrators detailed control over what kind of sites users can
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view. The LivePrism hosted Internet filter uses a URL database, iGuard, that classifies individual URLs by content. iGuard has eleven different categories of dangerous or undesirable content which can be blocked to protect your network.
LivePrism’s hosted Internet filter applies controls effortlessly, with clear-cut configuration:
- Category-based filtering. iGuard is 100% fully human-reviewed for superior accuracy; it accounts for page text, images, media, and context so the hosted Internet filter isn’t misapplied. LivePrism iGuard has eleven categories: adware, hate, audio/video, drugs, gambling, hacking, mail, pornography, pirated software, violence, and proxy.
- Blacklisting and white listing carried out by the hosted Internet filter to limit access to specific domains.
- Virus scanning. Every Internet request is virus-scanned by the hosted Internet filter before completing, so no malware is uploaded to your network. The virus scanner is automatically updated every ten minutes.
- Group profiles so different categories of sites can be blocked or allowed for different users. The hosted Internet filter groups are tied to the email and instant message groups, so all employee Internet use is managed centrally.
- Reporting to track usage, sites visited, and bandwidth usage.
- Notifications sent automatically by the hosted Internet filter software whenever a page or download is blocked.
LivePrism’s hosted Internet filter offers advantages to administrators for any size business because it is a hosted service. There is no software or hardware to install, and updates are invisibly applied to the software and hosted Internet filter database, so LivePrism is low maintenance. There is a single-source configuration through an intuitive, straightforward interface for both setup and reporting. And implementing LivePrism hosted Internet filter software is easy; simply set up LivePrism as a proxy server and block standard HTTP ports (80 and 443). The hosted Internet filter can be enforced for any kind of web browser using existing Active Directory group policies.
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