Any suggestions for web filtering?

bremen1874

bremen1874

bremen1874

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I have a site running SBS 2000 with 12 Windows 2000 PCs.

Sometime before the end of the year everything is going to be replaced. The plan at the moment is to use SBS 2008 on the server and Windows 7 on the PCs.

There are very strict controls on web access in place. Management has full access, but everyone else only has access to a limited number of preapproved sites. This situation is supposed to continue after the upgrade.

The web access is currently controlled using ISA Server which is no longer bundled with SBS.

Does anyone have any recommendations as to how the same access control can be achieved?

There should be a reasonable budget for this, but given the number of users I’d prefer not to be spending thousands of £s.
 
Well I'm not a fan of it at all as I've said previously, it should be a management issue, not a technical one. But if you must I do like webmarshal, works very well, has a good pedigree and isn't too frightening price wise...
 
We use Smoothwall to great effect. Can be run on your own hardware (or as a VM) if you don't want to purchase the various appliances.
 
open dns??? Just point the internet connection to open dns servers. Sign up aslong as you have a static address it's web interface configurable. The reason I say open DNS is because you only have 12 workstations..... Wouldn't bother with any hardware solutions or vm's. Waste of time and money.
 
I think I'm getting spoilt for choice here!

It has just struck me that not having ISA Server probably means I should be looking at getting a better network firewall. It would be nice to kill two birds with one stone.
 
I assume you have some kind of firewall on site? If so, what do you have?

Although I haven't checked thoroughly, our sonicwalls can do web filtering.
 
There's currently a 2wire adsl modem/router/firewall, it was supplied by BT when the connection went in. This has the necessary ports open and forwarded to the SBS 2000 box.

The SBS 2000 box is running ISA Server with two NICs. One NIC connects to the router and the other connects to the internal network.

There are some additional rule sets on ISA Server that allow either full or very limited web access depending on the client PCs IP address.
 
It's 12 pc's. Why spend even more money for a filtering system you get for free with open dns.
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I can't see how I could achieve what I want with OpenDNS.

There is a white list only option but this would presumably have to apply to all users. I need to have at least two different levels of access, full access for the management and white list only for everyone else.
 
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