Content Security refers to monitoring Internet access and e-mail activity in your network. This white paper provides information about Content Security, its need and recommends features that good Content Security software should have.
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Content Security
By Govind Rammurthy - MD and CEO - MicroWorld Technologies Inc.
Content Security refers to monitoring Internet access and e-mail activity in your network. This white paper provides information about Content Security, its need and recommends features that good Content Security software should have. Contents
WHAT IS CONTENT SECURITY ........................................................................................1 NEED FOR CONTENT SECURITY ....................................................................................2 STATISTICS OF INTERNET ABUSE ....................................................................................2 ESTIMATING NET ABUSE COSTS ......................................................................................2 IMPACT OF NET MISUSE .................................................................................................3 RECOMMENDED FEATURES OF CONTENT SECURITY SOFTWARE........................................4 CONTROL ACCESS TO WEBSITES.....................................................................................4 ADVANCED CONTENT MATCHING OPTIONS ..................................................................5 CONTROL E-MAIL..........................................................................................................7 RESTRICTED PHRASE CHECKING FOR SPAM MAILS........................................................7 BLOCK SPAMMER....................................................................................................8 E-MAIL ATTACHMENT CONTROL................................................................................9 ARCHIVE E-MAILS..................................................................................................10 CONTROL REMOTE FILE MODIFICATION .........................................................................11 IMPORTANT NOTE ......................................................................................................12
What is Content Security Content Security broadly involves setting Security Policies that govern Internet use in your home or organization. You, as the system administrator or parent, set guidelines for productive and safe use of the Internet. This also involves control over e-mails and attachments sent or received by your employees or child.
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Need for Content Security The Internet access you have provided in the office costs money. You wish to see it used as a productive tool and increase business. It also provides the best way to appear busy. Employees can open multiple pages, a few of them related to legitimate work, while the others cater to their 'personal' interests. It takes a single mouse click or Alt+Tab to navigate between pages, when a supervisor appears. This section provides details of how Internet access can be abused.
Statistics of Internet abuse
Consider the following facts:
. 33% employees surf with no specific objective; men are twice as likely to do this as women. (www.emarketer.com)
. 70% Internet porn hits occur between the hours of 9am and 5pm, during office hours. (Businessweek.com)
. 30% to 40% of employees' Internet activity is not business related and costs employers millions of dollars in lost productivity. (IDC research)
. Men are 20 times more likely to view and download pornography. (www.emarketer.com)
. 1 in 5 men and 1 in 8 women admitted to using their work computers as the primary lifeline to access sexually explicit materials online. (MSNBC).
Estimating net abuse costs
The following equations allows you to estimate how much misuse of Internet costs you: Number of employees with Web access: = A Average hourly cost per employee including overheads = B ($) Average time spent in non business net use/day = C (Hours) Average time spent on personal e-mail+ Chat/day = D (Hours) Working hours/day = 8 Cost to your organization for non business activity (E) = {B * 8/C * D} * A
In the above example: If A= 50; B = $ 40; C and D = 2 Hours,
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