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Vendor Landscape Plus: Web Content Filters for an SME

Make web browsing the safest thing end users do.

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Your Challenge

  • Traditional web content filters have fallen by the wayside to make room for products that help SMEs reduce the number of solutions to support.
  • Picking the right web content filter for an SME must take the pricing model, number of locations, bandwidth available, number of users, reporting requirements and features required into account.
  • There are newer vendors that specialize in supporting SMEs like Bloxx, Purewire and Webroot making old standbys like Barracuda, St. Bernard and McAfee not always the obvious decision.

Our Advice

Critical Insight
  • Newer web content filters, sometimes called secure web gateways, incorporate formerly disparate features that can help consolidate the IT infrastructure, like anti-malware and data leakage prevention technology.
  • Not every web content filter is created equal. Many vendors forego building in any security features beyond traditional URL filtering.
  • Geographically disperse locations should give serious consideration to on-demand/hosted solutions given the ease of implementation and flexible pricing models.
Impact and Result
  • Info-Tech’s framework for selecting a delivery method and shortlisting vendors will help you save time by ensuring you only evaluate the vendors that fit the organization’s web content filtering needs.
  • Be sure to evaluate your shortlist hands-on. In a market where algorithms and reporting capabilities differ so much, the same feature from two or three different vendors may work very differently.

Get to Action

  1. Form a solid understanding of web content filters

    To compile a list of features desired and vendors that fit.

  2. Evaluate delivery methods and vendors

    To compile a shortlist of vendors whose products should be tested in-house.

  3. Manually test web content filtering products

    To find the best solution for the organization.

  4. Deploy an updated Internet acceptable use and filtering policy

    To set clear expectations for end user behavior.

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Related Content

  1. Vendor Landscape Plus Storyboard: Web Content Filter for an SME
  2. Web Content Filter Test Checklist
  3. Internet Acceptable Use and Filtering Policy
  4. Shortlist, Select and Deploy a Web Content Filter
  5. Web Content Filter Evaluation Checklist

1 Comment

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    Henry Mayorga - 2010-07-30

    Anthony,
    I love this presentation. Clear, concise and takes a stand by naming products and ranking them according to stated criteria.
    Ge them to do the same for NAC (Network Access Control)

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