WEBWASHER TECHNOLOGIES
Webwasher Solutions Meet the Requirements for Today's Web Security Demands in Education
Schools and Colleges do more over the Web today than ever before. As use of the Web continues to grow and evolve into Web 2.0 technologies, we now see new challenges for the school IT administrator. Brightfilter offer a suite of solutions which not only protect the schools network, but reach beyond the school gates to protect mobile devices and the students themselves when they surf the web from home.
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What is needed is a comprehensive solution that goes beyond desktop or even gateway protections that rely solely on signatures of known threats. Schools have to be protected from both known and unknown threats, and all the varieties and forms that sophisticated malware takes, thereby empowering the educator to allow open access to the internet, safe in the knowledge that the entire network is protected.
URL Filter
First reputation based URL Filter eliminating security exposure,
limiting legal risks and productivity losses caused by in adverted
or unauthorized employee access to inappropriate, malicious or
distracting Web content.
Anti-Virus
Webwasher's unique Anti-Virus Multi-Scan™ technology
combine the strength of multiple anti-virus engines concurrently
scanning all Web and e-mail traffic.
Anti-Spam
Webwasher's unique anti-spam MethodMix™ technology combine
the strengths of multiple spam detection of almost 100% while keeping
false positives negligible.
Anti-Malware
Webwasher's Anti-Malware ensures that your systems are protected
against Malware, Spyware, Trojans and myriads of other threats
transported in Web, FTP and E-mail traffic.
SSL Scanner
Fills a serious security gap in the corporate IT wall of defense,
denying hackers, viruses and other malicious content hidden in
SSL -encrypted traffic access to your network.
Content Reporter
Provides an in-depth view of the peaks, trends, and events relating
to all network activity, including cache, streaming media, Web
and e-mail usage.
Instant Message and Peer-to-peer security
A solution that detects, reports, and selectively blocks the
unauthorized use of high-risk Peer-to-Peer file sharing (P2P) and
Public Instant Messaging (IM) from your network.
Comprehensive Web Gateway Security
Brightfilter, in partnership with Secure Computing® offer a complete portfolio of Web Gateway Security
appliances which protect schools and Local Authorities from malware, data leakage, and
Internet misuse, ensuring policy enforcement, regulatory compliance,
and a productive application environment for students. Through our TrustedSource
technology, we are able to profile in real-time literally millions
of entities connected to the internet worldwide and provide up-to-the
minute host behaviour analysis to create a “reputation score” which
can be used to determine whether a connection to the Wide-Area-Network network
should be allowed to occur.