Bob,
We use the Surf Sentinel web content filtering product with our Gnatbox
firewall. I am running the firewall with content filtering on an old
Pentium 75, but we are a small office with only ten employees. I believe
that when the firewall receives a web request, the url is checked
against an external database (not sure of the company), and then either
allowed or denied.
We've had one hickup in the service in the two years we have been using
it. The one hickup was that the external database couldn't be reached
for a couple of hours. From what I remember, this did not prevent users
from accessing pages. The url request just couldn't be rated against the
external database.
We have the basic Surf Sentinel which doesn't provide us any reporting
capabilities regarding the use. In other words, we just have filtering
capabilities. There is a fairly extensive set of categories of different
web sites that you can either allow or deny access. There is also a
custom white list and a custom black list that you can use for the
occasional exception to the category rule. We have only one content
filtering rule that all users go through, however, I believe that you
have the capability of customizing the content filtering rules
(including categories) for different groups of users as you see fit. You
could do a lot more with it than we have.
They do offer a 30-day trial of the service. I know you said you tried
it a while back, but I'm sure that you could talk them into another free
trial. Hope some of this information helps.
Sincerely,
Mason Landrum
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From: Reasoner, Bob (PHES) [mailto:breasoner_at_harriscountyhealth_dot_com]
Sent: Wednesday, September 28, 2005 9:01 AM
To: gb-users_at_gta_dot_com
Subject: [gb-users] Product query
I have used the GnatBox product for years and even played with their web
content filtering a while back.
Just curious if one or more of you might have comments on the AV and Web
content filtering offerings available for use with the GBWare 3.7.0
product?
I'm growing increasingly frustrated with the lack of growth on our
current web content filter provider and would like opinions of
performance with GTA's offerings. I have nearly 600 users that pass
through the GBWare 3.7.0 product currently. Is the Database hosted
locally or on someone else's sites?
Thanks for any info you can provide!
________________________________
Bob Reasoner
Harris County Public Health & Environmental Services
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