Benefits:
- Allows organizations to establish flexible internet use policies. Choose between Allow, Block, Continue, Quota, Block by Bandwidth, and Block by File Type options for managing web access; filter sites based on time of day.
- Enables organizations to set policies for file types and over 80 application protocols, including email, file transfer, remote access, streaming media, instant messaging (IM), and peer-to-peer (P2P) protocols.
- Permits organizations to set policies based on users/groups defined in Microsoft Windows Active Directory, Sun Java System Directory Server, and Novell eDirectory accessed via Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP), RADIUS, and even in Citrix environments.
- Provides powerful, industry-leading reporting tools to analyze and track internet use throughout the organization.
- Helps ensure compliance with privacy policies, union regulations, and other laws by maintaining the privacy and anonymity of users when logging their activities.
- Enables organizations to optimize their network bandwidth by prioritizing and managing traffic in real-time.
- Allows organizations to distribute administrative tasks across departments, groups, or locations to increase visibility within individual areas and to reduce the burden on IT.
- Scales from 50 to 250,000+ users with full reliability and accuracy and is designed to work in networks of virtually any configuration. Three deployment options are available:
- Integrated deployment on a separate server that is tightly integrated with the network gateway platform to offer pass-through filtering that maximizes stability, scalability and performance.
- Embedded deployment on an appliance or gateway product to reduce hardware expense and enhance ease-of-use, particularly in remote locations.
- Standalone deployment utilizing a network agent to deliver pass-by filtering capabilities in any network environment.