Sophos Web Filtering

Web Content Filtering

Web Filtering is a total business solution for employee Internet management, combining URL filtering, anti-virus, anti-spyware, content security and productivity management into a single, easy-to-manage solution. Web Filtering enables organizations to apply management policies for security, compliance, behavior and acceptable use to Internet activity – meeting their obligations to assure a safe and secure working environment for all employees.

SECURE

The Internet presents a serious dilemma for many organizations. It is an essential business tool, but it is also a vulnerable entry point for a range of security threats such as viruses, spyware and malicious code.

Web Filtering helps to maximize the benefit and limit the risk. Web Filtering offers a wide spectrum of security features.

Internet security is about keeping the bad things on the outside of your organization and ensuring that the good things remain within. Web Filtering performs thorough content security checks to secure your organization, carefully analyzing URL links, files and text to screen out unwanted or hazardous content.

PROTECT

Use of an organization's Internet access by employees is not only vulnerable to external security threats. It is also prone to misuse from within. Maintaining productivity, blocking offensive, pornographic or illegal content, monitoring levels of personal Internet use and ensuring appropriate use of bandwidth are all important issues for executive managers and system administrators. These issues are often addressed within organizations via their Acceptable Use Policies (AUP).

Web Filtering is able to monitor and enforce any corporate AUP for employee Internet use.

COMPLY

Throughout the world, corporate organizations face external requirements to safeguard electronic customer and transaction data. To meet these requirements, they must design and implement comprehensive written information security policies. Sarbanes-Oxley, Gramm-Leach-Bliley and the HIPAA Act are among recent examples where authorities are placing responsibility for compliance on businesses and their executives. Some of these regulations are specific to public companies, but executives, investors and governing boards of private companies are also prudently applying the same stringent requirements to protect their companies, personnel and assets.

Compliance with these standards has various meanings. Depending on the industry, there are often rules and standard protocols for protecting confidentiality, maintaining information privacy, levels of disclosure and auditing.

Sophos Web Appliance provides a range of functionalities to meet a broad set of compliance related requirements.

TOTAL SOLUTION

Sophos Web Appliance provides you with powerful, granular control over all aspects of employee Internet management. It ensures that the Internet is a convenient and efficient business tool.