Business telecommunications and IT systems

How much is idle surfing costing your organisation?

The Internet is a great resource for business, but it is all too easy for employees to get carried away and spend excessive time surfing non-work related sites when they should be working. That can end up causing lost productivity and opening up legal risks if the websites being visited contain inappropriate or illegal content.

Yet it's a problem that's easily solved by deploying a web filter that effectively restricts employee access to nasty websites and manages and controls access to sites that impact on productivity and organizational efficiency.

First and second generation web filtering solutions can no longer keep up with the growth and dynamic nature of the web. Bloxx's revolutionary Tru-View Technology is the only third-generation web filter that can.

How does Bloxx Tru-View technology filter web content?

When a user requests a URL in their browser, the Bloxx Web Filter immediately performs a series of steps to determine if the web page should be viewed. The requested page will either be displayed or blocked based on a combination of the user's Internet Usage Policy and the presence of online threats on the page.

Since the Bloxx web filter uses a multi-layered approach, a page can be blocked at any step.

1. URL is checked against a customer-managed database of black listed or white listed URLs.
2. URL is checked against the optimised URL database which is updated nightly by Bloxx to ensure that it contains the most relevant URLs. The Bloxx database contains 50 categories.
3. The file type is checked - for example is the file a .exe file?
4. The requesting application is checked to determine if it as Peer-to-Peer application or an IM client.
5. URL is checked to see if the requested page is a Phishing site or a site containing Spyware. These lists are updated nightly by Bloxx to ensure that they include the newest sites.
6. Requested page is fetched from the Internet.
7. Page is scanned to check for blocked keywords.
8. Page is scanned to check for virus signatures. The anti-virus database is updated nightly by Bloxx to ensure that new gateway-level viruses are blocked.
9. If the requested URL and page passes all of these checks and the requested URL was not listed in the local or Bloxx URL database, the page is then analysed and categorised by Tru-View Technology. This uses advanced contextual analysis techniques to determine the content of a web page with unsurpassed accuracy.

Anonymous Proxy Blocking

Are you spending lots of your valuable time trying to block users from using anonymous proxies to bypass your Internet filter? If that sounds familiar, then help is at hand with Bloxx Tru-View Technology.

With thousands of new proxy sites created each day, trying to keep one step ahead of users through updates to a URL database is no longer viable - by the time it's updated it's already out of date.

Unlike other web filters that rely only on a URL database, Bloxx Tru-View Technology performs live contextual analysis and categorisation of web sites not listed in our URL database and aims to block access as soon as users try to visit a new and previously unidentified anonymous proxy.

Bloxx technology offers what we believe is the most effective Internet filtering solution available for identifying and blocking new anonymous proxy sites and delivers unrivalled protection against anonymous proxies.

So that means you'll spend considerably less time every day trying to keep one step ahead of your users.

Choose du Pré for your Bloxx system

du Pré has unrivalled experience of installing and maintaining systems in sensitive environments. As an example our CRB-checked staff are to be found supporting the UK's best schools on a daily basis and they understand the ever-growing requirement for information to be accessed and stored in robust manner appropriate to the application. Plus du Pré group companies employ Bloxx in-house to ensure appropriate web browsing and protection against malicious internet content. Look no further for assistance with your requirements.