URL Blocking

Internet Usage

Estimates show that in some cases, up to 45% of employee time on the Web is spent surfing on non-business Web sites. By eliminating irrelevant and unwanted Internet content, eTrust Intrusion Detection can improve employee productivity. It facilitates consistent and effective implementation of Internet security policies and user guidelines. An eTrust Intrusion Detection URL subscription can substantially reduce the time and expertise required of vital support resources, the network bandwidth consumed by Internet explorers and the potential legal liability to the overall organization.

Internet usage abuse has several undesirable aspects including employee productivity loss, wasting precious bandwidth, as well as exposing the workplace to various liabilities if other employees are offended by the uncontrolled access. From a productivity standpoint, many companies are seeing Internet usage abuse in the form of accessing sport sights, games and online gambling and wish to monitor and control this usage. From a bandwidth consumption standpoint, many companies are concerned about employees accessing nonproductive Web sites that return large graphic files and impact the productivity of all the network users. From a liability standpoint many companies are becoming more and more concerned about their employees accessing pornographic sites, hate speech sites and similarly offensive sites. Access to these sites have no place in their workplace and the access is creating a company exposure since the company appears to condone such accesses by enabling it and not taking action to prevent it.

eTrust Intrusion Detection utilizes Secure Computing's SmartFilter. SmartFilter features the highest quality and most comprehensive database of Uniform Resource Locators (URLs) available today. Yet, it is easily customized, transparent to end users, and has minimal system requirements. As the industry's first monitoring and control Web tool, SmartFilter software has proven its value and strength in Fortune 500 corporate networks since 1995.

Web Monitoring

eTrust Intrusion Detection also includes the industry's most comprehensive Web monitoring and blocking implementation, which consists of an extensive URL library, RSACi support and content scanning capabilities. These capabilities are married together with the ability to monitor, block and document Web usage by:

Group of users or individual users for all sites. Group of servers for all accesses or specific accesses. Group of users or individual users for classified sites Group of users or individual users for RSACi rated sites

URL Active Content Detection and Protection

Many Web pages contain active components (e.g. Java applets and Active X) that could invoke functions you would like to be aware of. These functions can include executing certain files on your network, reading files on your network or opening a socket to listen to your network’s traffic. When users ‘surf’ the Web and view Web pages, they could inadvertently be putting your network at risk. But, using eTrust Intrusion Detection to detect these active components, you can decide on a suitable retaliatory action. eTrust Intrusion Detection returns network control to your company.

URL Library

The eTrust Intrusion Detection URL Control List is composed of millions of URLs determined to belong to one or more of 27 categories, as defined by Secure Computing's Web Tools Division. Although the categories represent general content types encompassing an often wide variety of material, all are deemed potentially inappropriate for today's typical workplace. You may also add your own blacklisted URL to the list.

In the broader context of cultural norms and individual taste, it may be debatable what is considered sex or pornography or simply a form of entertainment, but in a standard business setting, this material is non-business related and therefore unproductive for most employees to view during working hours. Oftentimes, much of the content may lead to avoidable human resource conflicts. The overwhelming reason for companies to purchase the URL update subscription is to customize the Internet and make it a resource to assist employees in doing their jobs more effectively.