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Watching your surfers
By Emily Cohen
January 20, 1998
PC Magazine
Network monitoring tools
As the Internet becomes an indispensable business tool, you may wonder how to prevent your workers from using it for nonbusiness activity. Two new monitoring applications help enforce corporate Internet-usage policies by capturing and logging network activity and blocking Web sites.
NetPartners' WebSense Reporter Pro 1.0 (800-723-1166, www.websense.com) generates reports on Internet activity by company department in batch-mode and real time. You can customize reports to show things like traffic between workstations and Web sites, top sites visited, and total bytes downloaded.
Reporter Pro ($495 per workstation) uses the WebSense master database, a collection of over 125,000 restricted Web sites in 29 categories developed and maintained by professional Web surfers. Reporter Pro automatically downloads WebSense database updates every night. Managers can put URLs in the database, or they can add sites locally with the Custom category.
On Technology's On Guard Internet Manager 4.1 (617-374-1400, www.on.com) generates reports by date and time for a specific person, group, or whole network (it will be rereleased as Elron Electronics Industries' Elron Internet Manager in the first quarter of 1998). It has a Web interface that lets managers access usage reports from anywhere on the network. Reports can tabulate activity such as top-ten sites visited, Internet usage by hour, workstation usage, and site details.
On's SmartList technology automatically produces and utilizes a list of restricted Web sites with the help of a Suspect Dictionary. Office managers create the dictionary by submitting keywords like "nude" or "sports," and the Internet Manager blocks all attempts at opening new sites containing those words. These new suspect sites are then added to the restricted list. Pricing for Internet Manager starts at $2,995 for 50 users.
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