Blue Coat WebFilter, a powerful “on-proxy” web
filtering solution, helps enterprises and service providers protect
their users and networks from Internet threats and abuse, including
spyware, phishing attacks, P2P traffic, IM and streaming traffic,
adult content, and many others.
To safely realize the benefits the Internet
offers, more and more organizations are choosing Blue Coat
WebFilter to enforce their Internet access policies.
Comprised of the most frequently accessed
sites on the Web, Blue Coat WebFilter runs natively on Blue
Coat appliances. The
WebFilter solution includes over fifteen million website ratings,
representing billions of Web pages, organized into the most relevant
and useful categories. To ensure accuracy, each site in
the WebFilter database is classified into multiple categories,
as appropriate. This allows WebFilter customers to define a virtually
unlimited number of “cross-categories” to fit their
specific filtering requirements (e.g., Motor Sports, Sports Betting,
etc.). This allows for greater customization of an organization’s
Internet filtering policy.
With the exception of malware sites, which
Blue Coat Labs™ actively
deploys technologies to pursue, the WebFilter database is driven
only by the actual web usage patterns of customers. This drives
the relevance and accuracy of its contents. As a result, WebFilter
has an average 94% coverage rate of requested sites in enterprise
deployments, coupled with an extremely low rate of false-positives.
To address the small percentage of sites
not already classified in the on-proxy WebFilter database,
each Blue Coat WebFilter license also includes Dynamic Real-Time
Rating (DRTR™),
a unique, patented technology that can actually categorize web
sites “on the fly” as a user attempts to access them.
Blue Coat WebFilter customers receive access to all categories
and functionality, including DRTR and full spyware coverage,
at no additional charge to their basic subscription.
Blue Coat Sitereview is
an online tool that enables Blue Coat WebFilter administrators
and end users to verify if a site is included in the Blue Coat
WebFilter database and suggest alternative categorizations for
the URLs in question.
