iBoss Enterprise Filters block base domains while allowing sub-URLs with ease
SAN DIEGO, March 16, 2010 — With the emergence of Web sites like YouTube, Facebook, and Twitter as essential tools for marketing, communication, and training, it has become increasingly impractical for educational institutions and corporations to completely block access to students and employees, who may otherwise waste valuable bandwidth and time in unauthorized uses. Current Web-filtering applications on the market have proven equally impractical for selectively limiting domain access. Fortunately, a new solution incorporated into the line of iBoss Enterprise Web Filters provides an efficient way of allowing sub-URL access while blocking the base domain.
The social and streaming media boom of the past four years has left schools and businesses in a quandary over how to restrict access to the more popular Web sites on the Internet, while still enabling them to take advantage of these sites' unique abilities to build brand recognition, promote special programs, facilitate outreach, and provide convenient access to educational materials. Until now, network administrators have been required to block an entire domain and make a number of complicated configuration changes to open a particular URL within that domain.
Incorporating stream-based URL filtering, rather than the typical domain-based proxy filters, iBoss Enterprise Filters now offer the dynamic ability to allow select sub-URLs while blocking a base domain (or vice versa), giving network administrators more granular control of the network and enhancing overall network performance in the process. Each iBoss appliance is also capable of handling over four million concurrent TCP/IP requests in addition to providing Layer 7 (L7) filtering and reporting.
"Many of the Web sites and applications that were once seen as threats to the network and productivity are now utilized by corporations and universities to increase visibility or for education. This heightened demand of our Web-based world on the networks of large organizations has resulted in a critical need for increased security coupled with flexibility. The iBoss Web Filter provides an unprecedented level of filtering flexibility that today's networks require," says Mike Crawford, Product Manager of Phantom Technologies.
iBoss Web Filters offer Layer 7 filtering and comprehensive reporting which meet the needs of today's large corporate, education, and government environments demanding greater performance. Designed in the U.S. using proprietary engineering, the iBoss Enterprise Filters offer a comprehensive solution with the greatest throughput available of any filter on the market today.
The iBoss Enterprise can be purchased directly from Phantom Technologies at http://www.ibosswebfilters.com or from one of its value-added resellers. For more information, please contact Marisa Salzman, Director of Marketing, at 877-742-6832, x 7807, or Email.
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