The Internet and email have stimulated huge productivity gains for employees. Workers quickly and easily access volumes of research on the Web and correspond with a mouse click. Unfortunately, businesses taking advantage of these tools are increasingly faced with daily onslaughts of spam and unwanted Web traffic.
Content Security - Blocking Spam and Unwanted Traffic
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Content Security 2
ProventiaT Content Filtering Technology 3
ProventiaT Anti-Spam Technology 5
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Content Security - Blocking Spam and Unwanted Web Traffic
The Inte rnet and e-mail have stimulated huge productivity gains for employees.
Workers quickly and easily access volumes of research on the Web and correspond with a mouse click. Unfortunately, businesses taking advantage of these tools are increasingly faced with daily onslaughts of spam and unwanted Web traffic.
Spam g enerated $20.5 billion in corporate losses worldwide in 2003 and is expected to cost enterprises $198 billion in losses by 2007 (The Radicati Group Inc. 2003). Inappropriate Web usage by employees also generates significant costs in lost productivity and legal liability - not to mention the impact on the bottom line. Around the world, organizations are turning to content security technology to block spam and unwanted Web traffic, or simply put - to keep the bad stuff out.
Roughly broken into two main categories - content filtering and anti-spam - content security ensures that non-business content doesn't slow employee productivity, expose the organization to legal liability and usurp needed bandwidth. Content security also keeps unwanted or offensive content such as pornography and hate mail from entering the network.
The statistics driving organizations to adopt content security are staggering:
. One-third of all e-mails are spam. In three years, this figure will grow to 50 percent (IDC).
. One-third of all employees write up to 10 personal e-mail messages per day while at the office (Vault).
. 30-40 percent of all employees' Internet activity has nothing to do with their jobs (IDC).
. 70 percent of Web traffic to porn sites occurs between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. (SexTracker).
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According to IDC, demand for content security will exceed $1.5 billion in 2006, representing the fastest-growing sector of the information security market. For enterprises, content filtering and anti-spam are part of the larger battle to combat all kinds of online threats, including viruses, worms and hackers. In response, Internet Security Systems (ISS), an established world leader in security, offers ProventiaT all-in-one protection appliances to block a full spectrum of threats all at once. Proventia stops spam, unwanted Web content, viruses, worms
and hac kers. With a built-in firewall and flexible subscriptions for anti-spam, content-filtering, anti-virus, intrusion prevention and Virtual Private Networking (VPN), Proventia offers best-of-breed security technology in a flexible and convenient format. Proventia customers can enjoy the simplicity of a security appliance while easily selecting the type of protection that best meets their needs.
Focusing solely on content security capabilities, ISS' Proventia all-in-one protection appliances automatically block more spam and unwanted Web content than any other product available. ISS' world-leading content security technology is also available from a stand-alone appliance. Proventia's content security offering combines intelligent content analysis techniques, the world's largest Web and image database and robust research infrastructure to deliver the best protection from spam and unwanted Web content.
Proventia Content Filtering Technology
Content filtering allows enterprises to configure and manage Internet access across the entire organization. The technology blocks unwanted Web content (pornography, gambling and shopping Web sites), ensures effective implementation of Internet access policies and enforces user guidelines. With the right content filtering solution in place, businesses can increase employee productivity, reduce legal liability and avoid unnecessary bandwidth use.
Proventia's content filtering offers multiple features, including performance restrictions according to user, group, IP and machine address, time-based rules, ... [download for more]
