Content Filtering Features

Having the ability to police and patrol your organization’s Internet usage from the inside is a luxury that most small to medium-size companies don’t even consider because of the time and expense involved in setting it up. But what they often don’t consider is the time and money being flushed away by employees that are misusing the Internet. The fact is that Internet misuse at work is costing North American organizations more than $85 billion dollars a year.

Here are some of the features of ISWest’s Content Filtering service that will help keep your employees on track when using the Internet.

Easy Setup: By taking advantage of the ISWest Firewall service and servers that are hosted in our Network Operations Center, our team of technicians can quickly and easily start filtering your organization’s surfing habits. Once the firewall is in place, setup can actually take place remotely, so we can have you up and running in no time.

A Virtual Stop Sign: In order to direct and disallow traffic on the web, you need to know where you’re going. Our content filtering database is constantly growing, so that it can make smart decisions about what to allow and disallow. Drawing decisions from a database that contains over 20 million websites in more than 90 categories, and 80 different network protocols, our content filter will always know what to do with your network traffic.

Highly Configurable: If your organization has specific needs that don’t fit the average workplace surfing habits, we can make changes to your policies instantly to allow your users to get where they need to go. Likewise, if you’re working with children or any other sensitive group that needs to meet stricter guidelines for what’s appropriate, we can tighten down the policies to make sure nobody sees anything inappropriate. We can even help you filter sites by time of day.

Not just websites: Although most rely on the ISWest Content Filter to police Internet browsing, it’s also capable of setting policies for file types and over 80 application protocols, including email, file transfer, remote access, streaming media, instant messaging (IM), and peer-to-peer (P2P) protocols.

No additional on-site equipment: All of the servers that manage the content filtering are hosted in our Network Operations Center. This means that your organization doesn’t take on the burden of managing any servers or software, updates are applied automatically by our technicians and your service is being managed around the clock.

Get pricing today for ISWest Content Filtering Services! Fill in our online Quick Quote form or call: 877-735-1500