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The internet, an inexhaustible source of information, has also become a threat to productivity. Being able to ensure that visited sites are work-related has therefore become a necessity.
In fact, for a business with 100 employees, one hour a day of surfing non-work-related sites already costs close to 400,000€ a year.
The criteria that matter most are the effectiveness of the protection given as well as the relevance of the categories offered. A database of websites adapted to the targeted public is much more useful than the size of the database.
Every day, thousands of sites appear and disappear, therefore it is more important to frequently update the website database than to add new sites to a database that has become obsolete.
On the technical front, different filter solutions coexist. Two main technologies stand at opposite ends of the spectrum:
 URL databases “embedded” on the equipment at the heart of the network
URL databases available on a remote server
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The sole advantage of the second solution is the simplicity of its implementation. But its disadvantages are innumerable: it takes a toll on the ease of surfing and confidentiality is not a guarantee on sites that are visited by the whole company.
HIGHLIGHTS - WEB FILTERING
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Netasq's solution |
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NETASQ offers its clients web filter solutions that are adapted to their legitimate demands. The URL database is “embedded” within appliances, and its format is adapted to very specific needs, involving comparisons of URLs against a database containing several million entries.
It is therefore pre-compiled in a proprietary format that enables the use of a parallel processing algorithm that is already present in ASQ for contextual signatures.
Thanks to these technological choices, users can continue to surf with ease even when the URL filter feature is activated on NETASQ appliances. In fact, latency arising from the activation of this feature is lower than 1ms, hardly the amount of time it takes to blink. |
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solution adapted to your needs |
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Clients are given the choice between two quality solutions. NETASQ’s URL database, a compilation of the best open source databases, and a proprietary list maintained by NETASQ’s R&D.
This list is provided free of charge on all NETASQ appliances for clients who have valid Initial or Privilege maintenance packs. |
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Winning partnership |
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To ensure that its clients get access to the best web filter technology on the market, NETASQ has also aligned itself with Optenet and now integrates as an option the database from the European leader in web security.
This database benefits from the performance of the architecture that NETASQ has chosen, and Optenet’s 10 years of experience in the field.
Optenet’s many references throughout Europe attest to the quality of the solution and makes the company a trusted partner for NETASQ and its clients.
Key facts about Optenet’s solution
Currently protects more than 5,000,000 users,
Multilingual
database, designed to work in 7 languages:
Spanish, English, French, Portuguese,
German, Italian and Dutch,
Ease of use (latency of < 1 ms).
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