Also referred to as Internet Filtering controls the sites your users can visit and benefit your business by:

  1. Reducing Liability
  2. Application (Malware & Trojan) blocking
  3. Increase productivity
  4. Increased Internet Speed

Web Content filtering or Internet filtering refers to a software or a program that blocks certain aspects of internet browsing for employees in an organization and administrators can manage these limitations. This is not to say that you will create a strictly limited atmosphere which can lead to an unhappy staff, but one that is safe and productive.

Although most see this filtering as a limitation, these days no firm should be without it. Web Content Filtering can prevent Malware and prevent unwarranted applications from installing. In recent years, websites have become another popular delivery mechanism for malware. By gaining access and modifying public websites, cybercriminals can download malware when the site is visited. Web Content Fileting can help to identify these sites and prevent the users from loading it up on their systems.

You can still set rules to block social networking or movie streaming sites too, as well as a host of other customizable sites or categories, hence increasing the staff productivity, but what we have found works best is to allow the users to use their personal mobile devices for non-work related and keep the computers on a strict policy.

In addition to this, you are also reducing the liability of users downloading illegal files or potentially surfing a site that another staff member might find offensive. There could also be benefits in your internet speed as you have potentially prevented the users heavy streaming through games and movies or some malware taking up the bandwidth.

At Mnemonic we can provide free website category filtering with our antivirus / EDR solutions that block based on the type of category and even customize this free add-on service to indicated specific sites. We also use Cisco’s Web filtering service at an added cost that is more intelligent and will qualify the site before the user gets to it. Even our anti-spam solutions come with website protection called “Link Protection”, which will scan a link within an email to protect the users.


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