Looking for web filter

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@ajstringham said:

Holy crap! That's pretty steep!

If you use the entire benefit package it is not horrible. But if you only want DNS filtering on your main office, it is really too expensive.

The # of users is a trust item with them. I called and talked to a rep about it. Basically asked them how do they track users when I will only be setting the DNS info in my DNS server as the forward lookup address.

But being an honest person I would not lie about that any way.

Edit: Also they likely have really good traffic flow information to give them decent estimates on # of users behind an incoming IP anyway.

True. But then there is the line between privacy and their right to view the info.

@ajstringham They can only see the domain being requested not the exact url so it's not really a privacy concern. Google Ads does more stalking than that.

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@thecreativeone91 said:

@ajstringham They can only see the domain being requested not the exact url so it's not really a privacy concern. Google Ads does more stalking than that.

True that.

scottalanmiller

Don't forget to look at Websense.

scottalanmiller

What about Barracuda?

@scottalanmiller said:

Don't forget to look at Websense.

I would pass on that one. There's also smoothwall

Nic

We've got a web filtering service that you can try out:
http://www.webroot.com/us/en/business/products/web-security/

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@Nic said:

We've got a web filtering service that you can try out:
http://www.webroot.com/us/en/business/products/web-security/

SHINY!

@Nic said:

We've got a web filtering service that you can try out:
http://www.webroot.com/us/en/business/products/web-security/

Is that a network based filtering or is it filtering on each device? the product page is kinda lacking in details IMO.

scottalanmiller

Cool. Didn't know that Webroot had that.

thegillion

@Nic said:

We've got a web filtering service that you can try out:
http://www.webroot.com/us/en/business/products/web-security/

Yeah and is that price per seat or 29 for the year ....

Carnival Boy

I might try that. Is there a discount for MLers?

@thegillion if price is a major concern Nxfilter is going to be one of the cheapest considering it's free. It's a also a DNS filter not a proxy server so it doesn't take much resources to run on top of a linux box. http://www.nxfilter.org/p2/

Proxy filters on the other hand can take a lot of resources to run depending on the organization due to the fact that all traffic actually goes through the filter rather than just looks up a hostname.

Nic

@thegillion said:

@Nic said:

We've got a web filtering service that you can try out:
http://www.webroot.com/us/en/business/products/web-security/

Yeah and is that price per seat or 29 for the year ....

It's per seat per year - it's a full proxy that routes all traffic, and you can lock down people's machines so they can't turn it off. That way you know the work laptops will be safe even when they are on the road.

There is a discount for MLers and SpiceHeads, and I can connect you to the sales person who can give you the discount.

I've used K9 in education and libraries with success

scottalanmiller

NxFilter does not seem too bad.

Carnival Boy

I've now tried twice to register a trial account with Webroot, but haven't received any e-mail instructions from them. Fallen at the first hurdle. I'm out.

NxFilter looks very interesting.

Carnival Boy

Webroot e-mail finally received. Back on track.

Nic

Cool, let me know if you have any questions.