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There are four major kinds of Internet threats, each introducing a different danger to a network:
- Inappropriate content. The most prevalent threat with the widest variety, inappropriate content ranges from offensive sites like porn, gambling, and illegal downloads which open your company up to lawsuits to personal shopping, browsing, and social networking which waste thousands of man-hours, and dollars.
- Identity theft and scams. Thieves and con artists try to entice users to willingly give them personal data through links in fraudulent emails or sites which imitate legitimate sites.
- Viruses and spyware. Network security is usually strong enough to keep hackers and viruses from penetrating from the outside. Viruses and other malicious software are often uploaded through instant messages or fringe sites opened by the user, appearing as legitimate outbound traffic to the existing web filtering and content management system.
- Peer-to-peer applications. P2P isn’t a threat in itself, but it acts as a gateway to viruses, illegal downloads, scams, and high-bandwidth usage and can initiate connections on random ports to trick most stratified solutions, like a web filtering and content management system.
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Some threats, like viruses and peer-to-peer applications, take advantage of holes in browsers to circumvent network security and begin uploading malware or downloading files. iPrism web filtering and content management system works at the perimeter of the network to filter every single packet of web traffic, regardless of protocol or port. This is more effective than trying to use software-specific solutions, like a web filtering and content management system, or web server software because filtering is applied consistently and equally to every computer across the network.
The iPrism web filtering solution business features make filtering simple to implement, yet effective for mixed environments, different types of user access, and all kinds of Internet threats with two distinct advantages:
- Category-based filters. iGuard web filtering and content management system is the only fully human-reviewed database in the web filtering solution business. Millions of individual URLs, in multiple languages, are divided into one of iGuard’s 63 categories. The web filtering and content management system determines what type of content are allowed and blocks only individual pages, not entire sites.
- User profiles.Web filtering and content management system profiles set what categories are monitored and blocked, time ranges, and overrides. There can be multiple profiles for different users, so web filtering solution business can be adapted for different uses.
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