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Vendor Landscape Plus: Web Content Filters for a Large Enterprise
Lock down web browsing, protect the business.
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Your Challenge
- Traditional web content filters have fallen by the wayside to make room for products that actively scan website code, and prevent malware from getting to the corporate network.
- Picking the right web content filter must take the number of geographic locations, amount of bandwidth available, number of users, pricing model, reporting requirements and features needed into account.
- There are newer vendors breaking the mold, making old standbys like Websense and Cisco not always the obvious choice.
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.
- 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
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Form a solid understanding of web content filters
To compile a list of features desired and vendors that fit.
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Evaluate delivery methods and vendors
To compile a shortlist of vendors whose products should be tested in-house.
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Manually test web content filtering products
To find the best solution for the organization.
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Deploy an updated Internet Acceptable Use and Filtering Policy
To set clear expectations for end user behavior.
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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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2 Comments
Why is M86 only mentioned in slide 24 but nowhere else in the "Storyboard" Powerpoint?
Thanks for your comment. M86 Security wasn't reviewed for several reasons: (1) They are in a state of transition as a result of the merger between Marshal and 8e6 Security, and the subsequent purchase of Avinti. (2) According to a recent survey conducted by Info-Tech Research Group, only one person out of 52 indicated they were using a product from 8e6 Security. (3) M86 Security declined to brief Info-Tech on their WCF products. Sacrifices had to be made, and other vendors like Cymphonix and ContentWatch were also not reviewed for various reasons. We feel that the vendors we did review either offer the best value for our clients, or had to be covered due to market presence.