Looking for web filter
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I am looking for a web filter for a school we do the IT work for. I have looked into Untangle and OpenDNS I am just looking for more. What do you use ?
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@thegillion said:
I am looking for a web filter for a school we do the IT work for. I have looked into Untangle and OpenDNS I am just looking for more. What do you use ?
Umbrella is good. That's probably gonna be easiest. Untangle doesn't filter HTTPS unless you get the paid. The free will filter HTTP though. Little more to setup there. Personally, I like OpenDNS, but I haven't played with Umbrella, as I haven't had a need or reason to. It's paid, and I don't have to pay for it.
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I will be interested in knowing what you find for other solutions. I love the OpenDNS Umbrella concept. I do not like the price.
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@JaredBusch said:
I will be interested in knowing what you find for other solutions. I love the OpenDNS Umbrella concept. I do not like the price.
How much is it? I haven't really ever looked into it.
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@ajstringham said:
How much is it? I haven't really ever looked into it.
$28/user/year
http://www.opendns.com/enterprise-security/packages-and-pricing/
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@JaredBusch said:
@ajstringham said:
How much is it? I haven't really ever looked into it.
$28/user/year
http://www.opendns.com/enterprise-security/packages-and-pricing/
Holy crap! That's pretty steep!
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@JaredBusch said:
@ajstringham said:
How much is it? I haven't really ever looked into it.
$28/user/year
http://www.opendns.com/enterprise-security/packages-and-pricing/
I read that as per month at first, but still, per user is a foolish pricing scheme in my opinion.
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For DNS based Filtering I've had good luck with Nxfilter. http://www.nxfilter.org/p2/
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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.
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@JaredBusch said:
@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.
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@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.
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Don't forget to look at Websense.
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What about Barracuda?
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@scottalanmiller said:
Don't forget to look at Websense.
I would pass on that one. There's also smoothwall
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We've got a web filtering service that you can try out:
http://www.webroot.com/us/en/business/products/web-security/ -
@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!
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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/Is that a network based filtering or is it filtering on each device? the product page is kinda lacking in details IMO.
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Cool. Didn't know that Webroot had that.
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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/Yeah and is that price per seat or 29 for the year ....
