Vendor Landscape Plus: Web Content Filters for a Large Enterprise
Lock down web browsing, protect the business.
- 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.
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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