SurfControl

SurfControl - The World's No.1 Web and Email Filtering Company

All Internet Content you Read, Send or receive Carries a Risk

• Spam & Junk EMail
• Confidential Information
• Viruses & Malicious Code
• Porn and other Inappropriate Web Content
• Instant Messaging and Peer to Peer
• Recreational Surfing

SurfControl helps companies top unwanted content

	TOTAL FILTERING SOLUTION
	SURFCONTROL WEB FILTER
	SURFCONTROL EMAIL FILTER
	SURFCONTROL INSTANT MESSAGE FILTER

Total Filtering Solution

All Internet content you read, send or receive carries a risk. Firewalls, passwords, and encryption can't protect you. The consequences could range from lost business, to lost productivity, to lawsuits. Content violations cost billions of dollars each year. They are the network threats that destroy or waste more resources than any other. They are also the threats against which most organizations are least protected and include:

• Viruses in e-mails
• Malicious code downloaded from websites
• Leaked trade secrets
• Recreational surfing and e-mail
• Spam that wastes bandwidth, time, and disk space
• Gender and minority harassment
• Instant message and peer-to-peer communications

Companies are vulnerable for only one reason: they send and receive inappropriate content over the Internet.

SurfControl helps your company stop unwanted content. SurfControl offers Web, e-mail, and Instant Message filtering, the most comprehensive list of suspect URLs, and they employ intelligent, policy-driven technology that lets you manage the content on your network - even if you don't know exactly what that content will look like ahead of time.

SurfControl - the security of a total filtering solution

SurfControl Web Filter

The Total Threat. Your company faces four basic web content threats:

Productivity Threats
Just 20 minutes of recreational surfing a day can cost a company with 100 employees over $8,000 per week. (At $50/hour/employee.)

Legal Threats
Employees can sue if you don't provide a work environment free of gender and minority harassment. That means taking reasonable care to block offensive Internet content.

Network Threats
An employee can crash your network just by logging into the wrong website. Other activity like recreational surfing and downloading MP3 files can divert valuable bandwidth from critical business needs.

Security Threats
Many viruses enter networks through web-based e-mail accounts or through other files downloaded from the web. That means you need to manage what files users can download.

The Total Solution
SurfControl helps stop unwanted content, as defined by your policy. Managing this content can significantly reduce the risks of productivity threats, network threats, legal threats and security threats.

• Platform - SurfControl works in any environment and is scalable to any size organization
  
• Content Range and Customization - SurfControl employs the largest, most-thoroughly customizable database of high-risk web content - classified by website or by page into 40 easy-to-manage categories
  
• Rule Criteria - apply any web usage criteria: content type, file type (downloaded or streamed), bandwidth allocated, time-of-day, time spent online, groups or employees affected - it's up to you
  
• Dynamic filtering - An available Virtual Control Agent employs neural network technology to block access to questionable sites not yet classified

Total Risk Management & Reports
SurfControl gives you the information you need to make the content risk decisions that are important to your business. It offers more than 55 standard reports, an unlimited number of customized reports, plus comprehensive real-time monitoring.

Reports Include:

• Internet usage summaries and trends
• Individual employee online activity
• Reports in 14 formats including PDF, HTML, and MS Word
• Reports accessed remotely via the web

Real-Time and User/Site monitoring includes:

• Seeing network traffic and problematic surfing as it happens
• Multi-level parameters including page, category, allow/deny pages, and user
• Color-codes to help quickly identify web activity by content category
• Case-building for repeat offenses using individual-level monitoring

Save time and help enforce content policies with customizable filtering and scheduling.

You can automatically:

• Generate and distribute reports
• Update URL Category List, daily, weekly, or monthly
• Schedule database maintenance such as archiving, purging and compression
• Receive instant notifications of content policy violations
• Notify users when a requested site is blocked

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SurfControl Email Filter

Organizations are exposed to risk each time an employee sends or receives an e-mail. Those risks can include

• Viruses in e-mail attachments
• Productivity and bandwidth losses from spam
• Leakage of confidential information
• Lawsuits in response to offensive content

E-mail Filtering lets you automatically and intelligently manage the threats in e-mail as defined by your policy. By managing e-mail traffic, the risks to productivity, network resources, legal liability and security can be significantly reduced.

Only SurfControl gives you:

A Total Solution
Targeting both e-mail and Web content and source, all e-mail - incoming, outgoing and internal.

Content Range and Customization
User-customizable dictionaries pre-populated by our experts with keywords and phrases found in risk e-mail - covers 15 categories ranging from "adult" to "finance". It also supports Boolean language filtering.

Viruses and malicious code are serious and constant threats that plague all organizations. Viruses can run rampant through an e-mail network and a successful attack can cost an organization a great deal in lost network resources and user productivity. SurfControl's Anti-Virus Agent used in conjunction with SurfControl E-mail Filter provides complete e-mail security management.

Protect your company from junk e-mails such as chain letters, jokes, image files and screen savers that can clog your network and decrease your employee productivity. Anti-Spam Agent's unique digital signature filtering ensures near 100% accuracy and efficiency thus reducing time and resources in reviewing false triggers and provides scaling performance. The single click configuration saves your time and resources.

Adaptive Reasoning Technology
Objectionable content can emerge overnight - putting your organization at risk. To prevent this, SurfControl's Adaptive Reasoning Technology dynamically updates your filtering tools as new content appears. Here's how:

• Virtual Learning Agent
  Protects confidential and critical information from security risks that arise from accidental or malicious leakage with this unique content development tool. VLA's automated process makes content understanding easier, more cost effective and more accurate.
  
  
• Virtual Image Agent
  Reduce potential legal liabilities by filtering out inappropriate adult images from your e-mail network. Using intelligent scanning technology, the VIA's sensitivity settings enable filtering based on your standards.
  
  
• Extensive Reporting
  Precise, detailed, fully customizable and easy to use and understand. Remote capabilities, too!

Flexible, Easy to Use Rule Criteria
Apply any e-mail usage criteria: content type, file type, bandwidth allocated, time-of-day, time spent online, groups or employees affected - it's up to you!

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SurfControl Instant Message Filter

Instant message and peer-to-peer (P2P) communications - the latest in software applications your employees are using to communicate over the Internet. SurfControl's Instant Message Filter can help your company manage these free and publicly available technologies and the risks associated with them, including:

• Virus infiltration
• Bandwidth consumption
• Legal liability
• Productivity loss

Understanding the Risks:

All Internet content carries a risk. Though seemingly innocuous, instant message and P2P programs can allow destructive viruses to penetrate your network, in addition to providing a backdoor for hackers to access your company's confidential information-and that of your customers.

You can also optimize your network performance by redirecting your bandwidth to more important business-related traffic instead of large music files or unlicensed software downloads.

We help minimize your exposure to the legal liability resulting from inadvertent or intentional data leakage, the exchange of offensive material, and copyright infringement.

Once you install our Instant Message Filter, you will see a marked improvement in employee productivity as more time is spent working instead of chatting with friends and downloading files.

A Directed Response:

As illustrated above, the rapid growth of public IM and P2P use by employees-often without IT administrators' knowledge-can be a serious detriment to your network. The solution: SurfControl Instant Message Filter. We can protect your data and network by limiting or blocking access to unauthorized public IM and P2P programs, down to a unique IP address, group, or sub-network. With SurfControl Instant Message Filter, you can identify and intelligently manage all major public IM and P2P communications by selectively blocking IM and P2P services, including:

• Public IM Protocols
  AOL Instant Messenger MSN Messenger Yahoo Messenger ICQ
  
• Peer-to-Peer
  Gnutella Network (Morpheus, BearShare, Phex, Gnucleus, LimeWire, others) FastTrack Network (Grokster and Kazaa)

Detailed Reporting:
SurfControl Instant Message Filter reporting enables you to transparently monitor network activity and create comprehensive reports to your specifications. It is automated and easy. You can even arrange to have users notified when their instant messages are blocked, and you can customize the message that is sent to them.

The Total Solution:
SurfControl Instant Message Filter is a focused yet flexible tool designed to meet the immediate needs expressed by companies to stop the unauthorized use of public IM and P2P file sharing-easily and cost-effectively. SurfControl's ability to successfully identify and address Internet content risks has been proven in our industry-leading Web and Email filtering solutions. Now SurfControl is expanding its total solution to comprise all of your Internet content risks. Whether these risks are introduced via the web, e-mail or public IM and P2P programs, SurfControl has you covered with our multi-layered approach to stopping unwanted content.

Learn how your organization can benefit from this intelligent method
for managing Internet content risks.

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