SmartFilter Web Filtering Product Family

WEB FILTERING
Product Overview
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SmartFilter Products
Secure Computing’s Web filtering solution
Secure Computing has been
solving the most difficult
network and application
security challenges for over
20 years, and is uniquely
qualified to be the global
security solutions provider
to organizations of all sizes.
Specializing in securing connections between people, applications, and networks, Secure
Computing® offers its SmartFilter® Web filtering product line to protect organizations from
risks associated with employee Internet use. SmartFilter products help reduce legal liability and
limit exposure to security risks such as viruses and malware, while increasing productivity and
preserving your bandwidth for business related activities.
The Web you want. The control you need.
While the Internet expands your organization’s reach, unlimited access to the Web can negatively
impact individuals, network performance, and your bottom line. SmartFilter products enable
organizations to understand and monitor their Internet use, while taking effective steps to provide
appropriate control over outbound Web access. The SmartFilter filtering line includes SmartFilter,
Bess®, and Sentian™ products.
Protect your entire organization with effective Web filtering
Filtering is becoming increasingly important for many groups within your organization:
• Employers must create a non-hostile workplace – blocking access to pornographic, violent,
or prejudicial content.
• Managers need to keep staffs productive, eliminating unnecessary distractions of online
shopping, gambling, instant messaging, and so on.
SMARTFILTER PRODUCTS
BENEFITS
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Reduce legal liability,
security risks, loss
of productivity, and
wasted bandwidth
Protect against
viruses and malicious
software invading
your network through
employee downloads
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Rely on the industry’s
best-rated URL database
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Understand your
organization’s Web
usage with powerful
reporting capabilities
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Save time with filtering
solutions that are
simple to install and
easy to administer
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Deploy a filtering solution
that fits directly into your
network architecture
SFPB-03-C
• Educators must keep schools and libraries safe and comply with regulations such as the
federal Children’s Internet Protection Act (CIPA).
• IT administrators need to guard against the security risks and bandwidth drains of
unrestricted access to peer-to-peer (P2P) sites, unauthorized downloads of files, or visits to
sites where PCs and networks can be exposed to viruses and malicious software.
SmartFilter products meet the needs of all of these groups with a system that is powerful, easy to
use, simple to manage, and highly affordable.
Rely on the industry’s best URL database
Internet access is managed through the dynamic SmartFilter Control List, a database of many
millions of Web sites organized into different categories for flexible policy enforcement options.
We have increased the number of categories significantly to provide even more comprehensive
and granular coverage, including security (spyware, malware, P2P), confidentiality (chat, IM), and
bandwidth management (Internet radio/TV, streaming media).
Your purchase of SmartFilter includes comprehensive coverage of all our categories, with no
premium charges or additional costs.
Our Control List database is screened and updated by our highly experienced team of Web
Analysts, who use automated tools and multi-lingual skills to review Web sites in over 60
languages. The Control List is updated daily and automatically downloaded by your
SmartFilter product.
Understand your organization’s
Web usage with our powerful
reporting solution
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SmartFilter categories
Alcohol
Anonymizers
Anonymizing Utilities
Art/Culture/Heritage
Auction
Business
Chat
Computing/Internet
Consumer Information
Criminal Skills
Dating/Personals
Drugs
Educational/Reference
Entertainment/Recreation/Hobbies
Extreme
Finance
Forum/Bulletin Boards
Gambling
Games
General News
Government/Military
Hacking
Hate Speech
Health
Humor
Instant Messaging
Internet Radio/TV
Job Search
Malicious Sites
Media Download
Mobile Phone
Non-Profit Organizations/Advocacy
Groups
Nudity
P2P/Personal Network Storage
Personal Pages
Politics/Opinion
Pornography
Portals Sites
Profanity
Provocative Attire
Religion and Ideology
Remote Access
Resource sharing
School Cheating Information
Search Engines
Sexual Materials
Shareware/Freeware
Shopping/Merchandizing
Sports
Spyware
Stock Trading
Streaming Media
Tasteless/Gross
Tobacco
Travel
Usenet news
Violence
Visual Search Engine
Weapons
Web Ads
Web Mail
Web Phone
Reporting is a key element of any Web
filtering solution, and SmartFilter products
include powerful reporting capabilities. With
SmartReporter, you can quickly understand how
your organization is using the Web, monitor
bandwidth use, isolate problems, document
inappropriate Web activity, and tailor your
filtering settings to effectively enforce your Web
usage policies.
SmartReporter provides an easy-to-use Webbased interface that delivers immediate
access to the information you need. Drill-down
capabilities provide real-time feedback and
instant snap-shots on your organization’s Web
usage and trends by category, location, or
individual. Management, HR, or other staff can
run full color charts without any IT involvement.
When users log in to SmartReporter, they are
presented with a top-level overview of recent
Web activity – and can readily access more
detail – even without running a report. Or,
when reports are desired, they can be scheduled
and distributed via email to specific staff.
Simple to install–easy to manage
Quick View appears each time you open SmartReporter and displays
actionable data on recent Web activity without running a report.
Users can drill down for greater detail or request specific reports.
Numerous sub-reports are accessed simply by clicking on an active
link. From this report, users can sort by filtering action and drill down
within each category to view users, sites accessed or attempted, and
the time the activity occurred.
Installation is fast and simple with any SmartFilter product you choose. For On-Box™
implementations, no additional hardware or network configuration changes are required. For offbox installations, you can select the platform that best fits with your existing infrastructure. With
all SmartFilter products, you save time and money, increasing your value of ownership.
An intuitive graphical user interface makes policy creation in
SmartFilter fast and easy.
The intuitive interface lets you pick and choose the
categories you wish to implement, and customize
your policies according to users and groups you
specify. For example, you can deny access to
gambling and pornography sites for your entire
organization, while allowing access to travel or
sports sites to certain departments or users during
lunch hours. You can also easily create userdefined categories that allow you to filter sites not
included in the Control List, or exempt any site
that you would like specific groups or individuals
to access.
SmartFilter products give you the complete flexibility you want and total control you need to
manage your individual Web access policy.
Deploy a filtering solution that fits directly into your network architecture
SmartFilter products fit seamlessly into almost any network environment. With over 30 supported
platforms, SmartFilter products offer the widest range of deployment options to match your exact
network needs.
Many SmartFilter configurations are embedded into a host platform and run On-Box with
the most popular proxy servers, caching appliances, and firewalls, providing unrivaled speed,
reliability, and scalability. In fact, SmartFilter On-Box is the leading OEM choice with partners,
listed on the last page of this overview.
Additionally, SmartFilter is available as an On-Box component of Secure Computing’s Sidewinder G2
Security Appliance, which offers a variety of protective features in one appliance, including antivirus and anti-spam filters, intrusion prevention, and more. For more details on the Sidewinder G2
Security Appliance, visit www.sidewinder.com.
SmartFilter products are also run off-box, providing additional flexibility and deployment
options with a minimum impact on your network. See page 4 for more information on our
deployment options.
SmartFilter is one of the
most widely deployed
filtering solutions in
corporate environments.
Thousands of companies
use SmartFilter products
every day to safeguard their
work environments from
offensive content, limit
legal liability, and protect
against malicious code that
can enter networks when
employees use the Internet.
This diagram represents typical configurations for SmartFilter products.
Other configurations as possible.
Supported operating systems
SmartFilter
• Windows 2000/2003
• Solaris
• Linux
Sentian
• Windows 2000/2003
• Linux
Bess
• Windows 2000/2003
• Linux
Supported platforms
SmartFilter (For supported OEM partner platforms, see page 4)
• Microsoft ISA Server
• Check Point FireWall-1
• Sun ONE (iPlanet) Proxy Server
• Novell Volera Excelerator XL
• Squid Proxy server
Sentian and Bess
• Check Point FireWall-1NG
• Cisco Content Engine
• Cisco PIX Firewall
• Cisco Routers
• Microsoft ISA Server
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Microsoft Proxy 2.0
Novell Border Manager
Nortel ACC
Nortel ASF
SonicWALL
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Squid Proxy
Stratacache
3Com SuperStack 3
Volera Excelerator
Secure Computing’s
SmartFilter and Bess products
are the #1 choice for K-12
schools to cost-effectively
protect students from
inappropriate Web content
and comply with regulations
such as the Children’s Internet
Protection Act (CIPA).
CIPA requires public schools
and libraries to certify that
they have Internet safety
policies and technology
protection measures in place
(such as software filtering
technology) in order to qualify
for applicable discounts.
SmartFilter products help
these organizations comply
with these requirements.
SmartFilter products — combined features and benefits
SmartFilter is primarily an On-Box filtering solution for organizations and enterprises of all sizes.
Bess is the #1 Web filtering application for education.
Sentian is primarily an off-box filtering solution for corporate environments.
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Industry’s best Control List
• Rated most accurate by independent studies; many millions
of entries and growing daily
• Enhance productivity and maximize the effectiveness of your
policy by relying on the industry’s most accurate list
• Screened and updated by highly experienced, multi-lingual
Web Analyst team; covers over 60 languages
OEM partner platforms
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Blue Coat ProxySG
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Cisco Content Engine
Content Engine
Network Module
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Computer Associates eTrust
Secure Content Manager
• Comprehensive and granular category coverage
• Expanded number of categories gives you increased flexibility
when implementing your policy—you can fine-tune your policy
much more granularly to best fit your organization’s needs
• Tightly compressed list data storage
• Reliable performance—Control List size does not impact server
Flexible policy management
• Custom policies by user, group, IP and IP range
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Computer Associates eTrust
Intrusion Detection
• Filtering options by time-of-day, day-of-week, file type
(.jpg, .mp3, etc.); URL/IP addresses; HTTP/HTTPS traffic
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CrossBeam Systems C series, X series
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eSoft InstaGate
• Deny, allow, coach/soft-block options; create custom
categories, block lists, allow lists, and redirect pages
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Finjan SurfinGate
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Hewlett Packard TRU64
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• Easily implement your organization’s Internet access policy
according to your specific needs; Improve bandwidth
management
• Powerful filtering functionality with point-and-click simplicity
makes administration quick and efficient
Ease-of-use
• Simple installation
• Efficient, fast setup and installation
Netopia Parental Controls
• Central management capabilities
• Simplifies administration of large-scale installations
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Network Appliance
NetCache
• Dynamic querying of directories for user/group info
• Supports popular directories: Active Directory, LDAP, NTLM, etc.
• Default filtering policies available
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Sidewinder G2™
Security Appliance
• If policy needs match default filter, filtering is ready to go ‘out-ofthe-box’; or start with default settings and customize as needed
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Secure Computing
Sidewinder® G2 Firewall™
• Automatic Control List downloads—daily list updates
available
• Saves time by streamlining maintenance; highly effective policy
implementation based on the most up-to-date list
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Vericept VIEW Filter
SECURE COMPUTING
CORPORATION
Precision reporting with SmartReporter
• Investigative reporting by user or IP
• Quickly pinpoint Internet abuse
• Extensive drill-down capabilities; configurable, full-color
charts and tables
• Gain quick insight to detailed employee Web use data; receive
cleaner, more targeted reports
• Monitor-only capabilities for surveying Web use
• Better understand your organization’s use of the Internet and
adjust policy according to actual use
• Scheduled, automatic report delivery
• Simplify ongoing administrative reporting tasks
• Intuitive Web-based interface
• Easy to use: non IT personnel can readily administer reporting;
Exports report data to many popular applications
• Real-time reporting
• Up-to-the minute data keeps you informed
Deployment flexibility—over 30 options
• On-Box installation — run filtering on same server as the
proxy server, caching device, or firewall
• Save money by eliminating the need for additional servers with
On-Box implementations
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• Embedded partner solution — purchase a platform from
one of our OEM partners with Secure Computing filtering
natively integrated
• Choose from numerous implementations that directly and easily
integrate with your environment
• Off-box — run filtering on separate server
• Flexible configurations support small to large organizations
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Simple pricing model
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• Volume-priced per user; 1-, 2-, and 3-year subscriptions
• Secure Computing is the value/price leader
• Single price includes subscription, software,
24x7 support, and SmartReporter
• Comprehensive coverage of all categories for no additional cost
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Hong Kong
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• No additional charges for multiple servers, support, upgrades, or
reporting solutions
Award-winning service and support
• 24x7 phone/email support; comprehensive documentation
• Support is always available from us to keep you up and running
For more information about these products, please visit www.smartfilter.com
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