News: Blue Reef and Netsweeper Partner on Mobile Content Filtering Technologies
Guelph, ON, Canada, November 17, 2009 - Blue Reef and Netsweeper announce today that they have collectively entered into an OEM agreement for the integration of Netsweeper's mobile computing filtering technology into Blue Reef's Internet Management platform.
Blue Reef, a leading provider of Internet Management Systems and Netsweeper Inc., a global provider of content inspection technologies for internet filtering and web threat management, today announced an OEM agreement for the integration of Netsweeper's mobile computing filtering technology into Blue Reef's Internet Management platforms.
"Blue Reef continues its commitment to provide its customers with best of breed technology from leading global providers to enhance and expand our Internet Management platform. Our choice of Netsweeper Mobile Filter is based on its high quality, 5 years presence in the market, and millions of users which are utilizing its capabilities on a daily basis", said Guy Lupo, Blue Reef's VP Products & Services.
The integration of Netsweeper's mobile filtering technology will allow Blue Reef to expand the content security functions and compliance reporting of their Internet Management platform to any device in any location. Available for PC, MAC and Linux platforms, Netsweeper's mobile filtering software solution is a low footprint, highly scalable and high performance module. The Mobile filter enables the centralized processing (Cloud based) of Internet requests by capturing all web traffic and request authorization from a centralized policy decision point while enforcing traffic restrictions on the mobile device.
"It is significant that accomplished Internet Management Solutions developers such as Blue Reef chose Netsweeper to expand and power the reach and effectiveness of their Web filtering and security," said Perry Roach, CEO of Netsweeper.
Blue Reef will also gain access to Netsweeper's dynamic URL and content categorization services offering over 3.2 billion categorized URLs and their highly effective malicious content, malware and virus protection services.
"This technology integration is a natural extension of our product development and matches our customers' evolving requirements. With Netsweeper's Mobile filtering technology we can expand our Self Service Students, Parent and Staff dashboards ("My Sonar") to include remote and mobile locations, enabling unified and centralized reporting and compliance monitoring", said Guy Lupo.
The newly developed Blue Reef product sets are immediately available. Please contact Blue Reef sales for more details.
About Blue Reef
Founded in 2002, with headquarters in Melbourne, Australia, Blue Reef (www.bluereef.com.au) is a leading Australian Internet Management software vendor focused on developing solutions to enable businesses, education institutes and government organizations to easily enable and govern Internet usage in one central location utilizing a plan based approach and self service provisioning methodology.
About Netsweeper Netsweeper Inc. (www.netsweeper.com) is a leading provider of Internet content filtering and web threat management solutions and services for businesses, educational institutions, government organizations, service providers and OEM partners around the world. Netsweeper's solutions supply IT managers the tools necessary to optimize network security while providing all users with a positive, productive and safe Internet experience. Founded in 1999, Netsweeper Inc. is headquartered in Canada's technology triangle just minutes west of Toronto, ON, with other regional offices in the UK, India and Australia, plus a network of distributors and resellers in The United States, Middle East and South America.
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