TECHNOLOGY OVERVIEW

A filtering policy is a set of rules or settings that the Netsweeper Policy Service uses in making decisions about whether requests for internet content should be allowed or denied. The Netsweeper solution allows you to create one or more unique policies for groups of people or workstations. Each workstation is deemed a client, with each client being part of a group. Every filtering group can have one or many policies to determine what they can or cannot access on the web.

Netsweeper has a multitude of content categories, with some available for blocking and others available for usage reporting purposes. Category filtering can be defined as sorting URLs into subject categories and subsequently filtering based on subject content. Netsweeper’s Dynamic Categorization Engine scans and sorts the content of billions of websites and adds this information to a database of categorized sites maintained on the Netsweeper Category Name Server (CNS). Each URL is categorized by Netsweeper, and based on these categories URLs can be allowed or denied.

We generate reports for you that are easy to understand, giving you the power to review Internet usage on your network. The data from our reporting services provides insight into network traffic or information on specific requests, websites, or users. The high-performance reporter can gather requests based on specified criteria and sort them, calculate statistics, and present results in tables and charts.

We have developed an advanced high speed NSProxy service capable of delivering 10Gbps of throughput and up to 6Gbps of selective SSL decryption throughput. This service becomes more crucial as more and more of the internet is becoming SSL driven. Netsweeper can also filter HTTPS and filter by hostname without breaking encryption. Advanced social media SSL protection is an example of how our technologies are helping in today’s digital world. With NSProxy, we can allow access to the safe areas of social media, while restricting access to the potentially dangerous ones.

The IIS Authentication Redirect Portal is an implementation of the Netsweeper authentication portal for Microsoft IIS. The IIS Authenticated Redirect Portal can transparently authorize any user logged on to the Microsoft Domain where the portal has been installed. This means that you can feel secure and safe on the web while using your existing infrastructure for user and rights management.

This agent-less integration with popular directory services provides complete user identification, enabling simple, application-based policy definition per user or group. Netsweeper supports a variety of directory servers, including Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP Server), Microsoft Active Directory (AD) and Novell eDirectory.

Netsweeper supports Remote Authentication Dial-In User Service (RADIUS), a client/server protocol and software that enables remote access servers to communicate with a central authority server authorizing user access. This approach provides organizations with better security, allows companies to maintain user profiles in a central database and apply policies at a single administrated network point. Through our authentication portal API, we allow for customization of the authorization process to meet various educational and business requirements.Directory.

Netsweeper 5.1 and above makes security simple by providing a highly scalable embedded DNS service. The Netsweeper Powered DNS Filtered Technology is a scalable, reliable, and managed authoritative DNS service. The service provides low latency, high availability and is a cost-effective way to make Netsweeper policy enforcement and services available to your users. Capabilities include but are limited to: the ability to deny with a hostname; the ability to deny with an IP; per URL deny rewriting and allows for safe search enforcement in lists.