WebDefender …enforcing your Internet Acceptable-Use-Policy

Introduction:

The WebDefender appliance with managed service restricts access to undesirable and unwanted web material by providing high performance URL filtering, using policies and a current database of restricted sites. It is completely configured and installed in your DMZ or LAN to control web access and log user activity.

Benefits:

• Protects your organization and employees from embarrassment and liability of offensive material

• Increases employee productivity and system availability

• “Buys back” network bandwidth, computing resources and staff time for productive use.

• Leverages Open-Source tools and services for Lowest Cost of Ownership available.

Features:

• Popular SmoothWall application software with Anti-Virus (or Cymphonix Appliance)

• Policy-based filtering to enforce your Policy

• Restrict Access to Web Sites based on Domain Name, URL and Expressions

• Filtering based on specific words and phrases written and by the overall rating of the content

• Web page cache to boost performance

• Timely updates of websites with questionable content, from critical knowledge databases

• LDAP interface (Active Directory integration)

Description:

Typically, WebDefender will be installed in your DMZ or LAN and accepts all outbound HTTP traffic. Web pages are cached, then inspected.

The WebDefender database is automatically updated each day with new, websites, so that inspection is timely and current. You have the ability to over-ride (White-List) and add-to (Black-List) these automatic updates.

Web caching enhances the web browsing experience by caching commonly accessed web content and serving subsequent requests for the same content locally rather than requesting it from the actual web site.

Technical Features:

1. Host-based Denial of Service Prevention

2. Web-Based Administration Interface

3. Restrict Access to sites with Viruses (HTTP traffic)

4. User Tracking via Login & Password

5. User Authentication via LDAP or user database

6. Time of Day, User Controls if #4 and #5 is utilized

7. User Groups are supported

8. Forward Proxy with Cache

Filtering Process:

1. Checks the website to see if it is a banned site or not. Automatic daily updates are made to the database. Blacklisting and White-listing of websites is possible.

2. Checks to see if specific URL’s are banned. Daily updates are made to the database. Blacklisting and White-listing of URL’s is possible.

3. Keywords and Expressions are checked to see if they should be banned. There are 40 categories and user-definable categories for management controls. Black-listing and White-listing is possible.

4. Web pages of certain type can be blocked. User-defined Blacklist is maintained.

Sample Reports:

Top User – A report for each user broken down by sites visited, connections, and other info each day.

Top Sites – Top 100 sites visited by the users sorted by number of connections. This is a daily report.

Top 20 URLs Blocked - Because of virus, mime type, or category per day.

Top 20 Users Blocked - Because of virus, mime type, or category per day. The ranking is by number of blocked attempts.

Sites & Users Report – All sites accessed during the day and who accessed them.

Site Guard – All site access attempts that were blocked on a daily basis. This report includes the offending site, the user who made the attempt, the time of day, and the rule, which was violated (ie: porn, news sites etc.).

Daily User – this shows how much time a user is spending on the web hour by hour each day.

Blocked by Category – This simple report shows the number of blocked attempts for each category per day. Categories include gambling, porn, ads, news, etc.

Blocked by Virus or Mime Type - This simple report shows the number of blocked attempts that were blocked because they contained viruses, blocked by category, or mime type violations per day.