Vendor Landscape Plus: Web Content Filters for an SME
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- 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.
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