Internet content Filtering

It's estimated that in a typical business, employees are wasting anywhere from 10-30% of their online time engaging in "cyber slacking", looking at sites on the Internet they have no business visiting while at work. Accessing pornographic sites, chat rooms, gambling, illegal music and many more puts your business at risk. Most small businesses don’t have the time or resources required to implement and manage sophisticated web filtering systems, which means the cost of lost productivity can run into thousands of pounds.

However it can be avoided with AME’s internet content filtering solution, eGuard Pro*. eGuard Pro controls user access to inappropriate content, limiting the web sites that your employees visit. This not only allows organisations to maximise employees’ productivity but increase your online security too.

Our eGuard Pro solution has been designed to quickly and easily provide web filtering for the small business at an affordable price. One installation covers all PCs that share a common access point. Choose from a virtual solution or a physical device.

What is content filtering?

A standard web filter has a very large list of bad sites. If you try to go to these sites you will get blocked. I.e. your web access is filtered by web address.
The web is a fast changing place and even large web search engines such as Google or Altavista or Yahoo don't even know of half of it. This makes filtering by web address (URL) difficult as sites change and new ones come up all the time. It is impossible to have comprehensive filtering using just URLs. What is needed is something to check every page you (or your employees) ever access for 'bad' subjects such as drugs, profanities, hate, pornography, etc, and disallow it if it's not suitable. This is called 'Content Filtering'.

This is why you need eGuard Pro as it makes the web a cleaner, safer, place for you and your business.

Features included:

• It filters using multiple methods including URL and domain filtering, content phrase filtering, PICS filtering, MIME filtering, file extension filtering, POST limiting.
• The filtering has configurable domain, user and source ip exception lists.
• Is able to block sites when users try using the IP address of the site instead.
• Produces a log in a very human readable format.
• Optionally produces a log in CSV format for easy import into databases etc.
• Is able to log the username using either Ident or basic proxy authentication.
• It has the ability to switch off filtering for specified sites, parts of sites, browser IPs and usernames.
• Can block specified source IPs and usernames.
• Can block or limit web uploading (e.g. attachments in Hotmail).
• Has the ability to work in a stealth mode where it logs sites that would have been blocked, but does not block them. This allows you to monitor your users without them knowing.

eGuard Pro is designed to be completely flexible and allows you to tailor the filtering to your exact needs.

If you are interested in implementing eGuard Pro for your business or would like further information on the benefits please contact AME Solutions on 01392 824 022 or  This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .

*AME’s eGuard Pro solution is based on DansGuardian & squid, configured on either a virtual or physical Linux based server.