Marketing description

The SonicWall Content Filtering Services Premium Edition for SuperMassive 9400 appliance enforces protection and productivity policies for businesses, schools, and libraries to reduce legal and privacy risks while minimizing administration overhead. It provides network administrators with greater control by automatically and transparently enforcing acceptable use policies. Also, it gives administrators the flexibility to enforce content filtering on zones as well as custom content filtering policies for groups of users on the network. Moreover, network administrators have a flexible tool to provide comprehensive filtering based on keywords, time of day, trusted and forbidden domain designations, and file types such as Cookies, Java and ActiveX. Furthermore, it can also be customized to add or remove specific URLs from the blocked list and to block specific keywords.

Key selling points

• Granular content filtering
• Dynamically updated rating architecture
• Easy-to-use web-based management
• High-performance web caching and rating architecture
• IP-based HTTPS content filtering
• Scalable, cost-effective solution

Product features

• Granular content filtering
  It allows the administrator to block or apply bandwidth management to all pre-defined categories or any combination of categories. Administrators can apply User Level Authentication (ULA) and Single Sign-On (SSO) to enforce username and password logon. CFS can block potentially harmful content such as Java, ActiveX, and Cookies, as well as schedule filtering by time of day, such as during school or business hours. CFS also enhances performance by filtering out IM, MP3s, streaming media, freeware and other files that drain bandwidth.
• Dynamically updated rating architecture
  Cross-references all requested web sites against a highly accurate database categorizing millions of URLs, IP addresses and domains. The SonicWall firewall receives ratings in real time, and then compares that rating to the local policy setting. The appliance will then either allow or deny the request, based on the administrator's locally configured policy.
• Easy-to-use web-based management
  It enables flexible policy configuration and complete control over Internet usage. Administrators can enforce multiple custom policies for individual users, groups or specific category types. Local URL filtering controls can allow or deny specific domains or hosts. To block objectionable material more effectively, administrators can also create or customize filtering databases.
• High-performance web caching and rating architecture
  It allows administrators to block sites easily and automatically by category. URL ratings are cached locally on the SonicWall firewall, so that response time for subsequent access of frequently visited sites is only a fraction of a second.
• IP-based HTTPS content filtering
  It allows administrators to control user access to web sites over encrypted HTTPS. HTTPS filtering is based on the categorical rating of inappropriate web site types, such as gambling, online banking, online brokerage and trading, shopping and hacking/proxy avoidance.
• Scalable, cost-effective solution
  It controls content filtering from the SonicWall firewall, eliminating the need for additional hardware or deployment expenditures on a separate dedicated filtering server.