[itdiscuss] Content Filtering

[Rob Shaw]

As long as you do not have a school, or need more granular (per user or
group) filtering, then OpenDNS is great... And FREE!

In our case, teachers and administrators were not happy with the level of
protection we had to use for the students (blocking unrated sites, etc).
The church staff did not want/need that level of restrictions either.

For us, Google¹s ScanSafe works quite well and addresses these concerns, but
is a little costly.  It also integrates VERY nicely into the same dashboard
that we use with our Google/Postini email filtering.

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From: Dan Barber <dbarber at kirkofthehills.org>
Reply-To: IT Discussion Forum <discuss at itdiscuss.org>
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 2009 13:41:29 -0500
To: IT Discussion Forum <discuss at itdiscuss.org>
Subject: [itdiscuss] Content Filtering

Folks,
It is time for our Content Filtering renewal. I am looking into various
options, since prices have gone up on our current subscription (SonicWall).
What do you use? What do you like/dislike about it?

Is anyone using the Barracuda Content Filter? Websense (Express)?

I want to accomplish two things:
* Keep things secure for our elementary school
* Avoid having a proxy server

Thanks for your thoughts!

Dan Barber
Network Administrator
Kirk of the Hills

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