SnapGear Webwasher URL Filtering

SnapGear Webwasher® URL Filtering Option

There's no question the Internet has revolutionized business. With the click of a mouse your employees can access critical data, keep an eye on a competitor, or dissect an industry.

Unfortunately, the Internet can also be a distraction that can impede your workforce productivity. The consequence is that many businesses are subsidizing workplace activities that are not related to a company's principal business activities.

The Problem...

According to IDC, up to 40% of Internet use in the workplace is not business related. And in a recent FBI study, 78% of the companies surveyed reported that employees had abused Internet privileges by downloading pornography or pirated software.
(Source: ComputerWorld)

The inappropriate or unauthorized use of Internet resources can seriously impact your business.

Decreased productivity while employees browse entertainment, news, and eCommerce sites.
Increased costs for your IT infrastructure to accommodate the non-productive bandwidth consumed for personal browsing
Legal exposure and fines due to copyright infringement or employee visits to inappropriate web sites.

The Solution?

Webwasher® URL Filtering

Curb IT costs - Webwasher URL Filter can sharply reduce the use of bandwidth-intensive files, such as streaming media.This can significantly improve the performance of your business applications while optimizing the use of network resources.

Minimize legal risks - Webwasher® URL Filter effectively suppresses offensive site sand prevents downloads of inappropriate files,minimizing the risk of legal liabilities.

Millions of entries - With millions of entries, Webwasher's URL database is one of the most comprehensive in its coverage of Web sites. A team with dozens of multi-lingual web analysts adds thousands of new URLs daily and validates existing entries on a regular basis.

Quality counts - Webwasher is renowned for the quality of its database, which is generated using unique analysis algorithms and continuously refined to ensure 100% accuracy.

International domain names - Webwasher provides full support for the new international domain names that include special characters (such as accents and umlauts).

64 categories - Webwasher's tried-and-tested categorization schema of 64 categories allows for a granular but manageable category-based Internet usage policy.

Custom categories - Add your own entries to any one of Webwasher's 64 categories or create and populate your own user-defined categories.

Frequent updates - Updates to your URL database are automatic, incremental, and non-intrusive. Schedule updates hourly to ensure you receive the latest URL Filter changes from the Webwasher servers without interrupting the service.

Online feedback system - Webwasher provides a secure, online feedback system ensuring accurate coverage of customer-specific Web sites.

Cover all your bases - Along with the high quality and comprehensive database, we provide a comprehensive set of tools and filters to meet your URL-filtering requirements.

Real-Time Classifier™ - Identifies content that might evade other URL classification methods.The combination of URL database filtering and real time analysis ensures the most accurate and scalable category enforcement.

Pricing & Availability

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Benefits at a glance

Improves employee productivity
Protects employees from inappropriate, malicious or offensive content
Policies can de defined precisely and tailored to your specific requirements
High-performance, scales from 25 to more than 300,000 users
Easy to deploy
Seamlessly integrates with your existing IT infrastructure
Fastest Return on Investment, lowest TCO
Includes Internet usage monitoring with Webwasher® Content Reporter
Complies with existing privacy laws

Need to Know More?

Please look through our URL Content Filtering FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions) to find out how it works, licensing options, and much more.

Case Studies

ROBERT Sales Rep and Strategy Gamer Plays a popular multiplayer strategy game every Friday afternoon, severly impacting weekly productivity for himself and five peers.	Company time wasted: 154 hours a year Annual cost to company: $6,817

JENNIFER Executive Secretary and Web Shopper Uses the company's T1 connection to shop the Web at high speed. Unfortunately, she doesn't always keep her shopping within her lunch break times.	Company time wasted: 87 hours a year Annual cost to company: $1,585

SPENCER Webmaster and Web-aholic Regularly downloads inappropriate pornographic content, exposing the company to legal liability. The large file loads and lengthy online sessions also impact productivity.	Company time wasted: 232 hours a year Annual cost to company: $7,250 Potential legal liability: In excess of $500,000

ALISON Data Entry Specialist and Music lover Subscription to a peer-to-peer file-sharing network bogs down the company network for hours in each day.	Company time wasted: 185 hours a year Company Bandwidth Consumed: 50MB a day Annual cost to company: $1,734