Web URL Filtering Service
  • Block websites and manage employee Web access
  • Enforce Web usage policies based on your rules
  • Obtain reports on Web activity
  • Protect bandwidth and productivity

Web Security.cloud- URL Filtering

Symantec MessageLabs Web Security.cloud offers a Web content filtering service to help you control Internet use in your organization. Our URL filtering service helps protect businesses from the ramifications of inappropriate Web use and assists in blocking access to websites by URL, time of day, or file type. The service can be used to set usage thresholds based on time or volume to help protect corporate bandwidth and productivity.

Our URL filter service is designed to meet the Web security needs of businesses of all sizes. It is highly configurable and contains a sophisticated database of over 67 million websites. The service offers more than 80 broader website categories that can be used to tailor policies to promote acceptable Web usage. By using the Web Security.cloud URL filtering service, IT departments can:

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  • Block access to specific file types, websites or over 80 broader website categories.
  • Monitor and control website access and Internet use across the organization.
  • Create flexible time-based rules that limit access to non-work-related sites to specific times.
  • Enforce Web use policies on sites with dynamic content through the use of multiple categories for a single website URL.
  • Protect corporate bandwidth and productivity with time or volume-based Internet consumption levels.

Our URL filtering service is a core part of Symantec.cloud web security services. The combination of the URL filtering service with our Web AntiVirus and AntiSpyware service and Web Roaming and User Support options helps to provide comprehensive Web security for your business.

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Features

  • Intuitive policy-building engine
  • Highly configurable Web Policy
  • Enforcement options
  • Detailed reporting

Benefits

  • Enables organizations to quickly create Web use policies and prevent misuse by restricting access to undesirable sites and content
  • Helps protect corporate bandwidth by restricting downloading of certain file types and allowing time or volume-based Internet consumption limits
  • Aids in the refinement of policies and enables monitoring of specific users and groups

How Web URL Filtering Service works:

Symantec MessageLabs Web Security.cloud facilitates comprehensive URL filtering and controls web use to help enforce your Web acceptable use policy.

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  • Policy rules for Web traffic are configured using the Symantec.cloud administrative interface
  • All Web traffic requests pass through the Symantec.cloud platform, hosted in secure data centers worldwide.
  • When a Web traffic request is received, policy rules are evaluated and processed to determine whether it is blocked or allowed to pass.
  • Different rules can be applied to different user groups and individuals, certain file types can be blocked and time or volume-based Internet consumption limits can be created.
  • Web traffic requests matching a policy, will follow default or custom rules set in place by the administrator of the service (Actions include: allow, block, log, allow and log, block, block and log.)
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  • STW Communications Group
    STW invested in MessageLabs now Symantec.cloud Email and Web Security services to address their challenges with spam jamming inboxes, virus threats to their network and malware.
  • Brisbane Grammar School
    It is vital that Brisbane Grammar protects staff and students from inappropriate emails and websites, online bullying and complies with all relevant regulations.
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By being able to restrict Web access with a browsing policy and filter, Symantec.cloud Web Security is enabling us to reclaim tens of thousands of hours of increased productivity per year. The solution quickly paid for itself.

Rogelio Betancourt,
IT Manager,
Grupo Lamosa

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