Alternative to Websense

[Nikumba]

We currently use Websense on top of ISA2006 to do our proxy/filtering of out internet traffic.

We are looking around at alternatives and just wondering what people use out there?

We have tried CensorNet, Network Gaurdian from Smoothwall both didnt meet our requirments.

So what other options do we have?

Kimbie

 

[Nikumba]

Surfcontrol is owed by Websense and is no longer supported, we had to upgrade to Websense from it, a shame as Surfcontrol did what we wanted.

How do you get on with Web Marshall?

Kimbie

 

[Nikumba]

From a filtering point of view it works well, however it does not work well with how we want to do internet access, we also have issues in teh way it handles unblocking of websites.

The other big thing for us is the total and utter redicolous price they want to charge for a renewal.

Our main requirements are intergrates fully with Active Directory, I can stack filtering groups so if a user is in the generic policy with facebook blocked, i can add their user to the Facebook Allow OU, and create a filter, and the allow will take precednace over the deny.

Network Guardian could not do this, and Censornet didnt get that far as you ahve to do a manual import of AD

Kimbie

 

[Nikumba]

Been having a go with WebMarshal today, and so far its pretty good, like how the groups work, waiting on a cost from our supplier now, to see how it compares

Kimbie