recommend me a good content filter

I'm guessing content filter as in blocking porn/illegal etc. websites?

Try OpenDNS - http://www.opendns.com/

All you do is sign up, set your filters (you can tick the categories you want allowed/disallowed), then change the DNS servers on the user's computers to the OpenDNS servers
 
I have an sonicwall firewall installed at our internet breakout you can buy a license to have it do web filtering for you via sonicwall's own content filtering service. It's quite flexible in that you can edit the catagories you want to block on the firewall itself and add your own custom ones to block/allow. Not sure how much it costs but it's fairly reasonable. It's currently filtering over 1000 users browsing so 500 should be no sweat for it.
 
Have trialled several including webmarshall, but eventually went with Censornet
 
Craig321 said:
I'm guessing content filter as in blocking porn/illegal etc. websites?

Try OpenDNS - http://www.opendns.com/

All you do is sign up, set your filters (you can tick the categories you want allowed/disallowed), then change the DNS servers on the user's computers to the OpenDNS servers
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yeah ive seen that i use it at home tbh for a quicker tinternet !

thanks tho bud im looking at purely hardware soloutions as Im technically not allowed to mess with the dns settings
 
Depends on budget really. Dansguardian/squid is pretty good & free as well. Its also available as a vmware applicance so very quick to get going. Assuming you have esx as part of your current infrastructure that is anyway.
 
I've used DansGuardian in the past, it was very good for the money! Seemed to generate a lot of false positives though, last thing you want to be doing is whiselisting URLs every 5 minutes.

I trialled a content filter by Barracuda Networks a couple of weeks ago, that was really competitively priced in comparison to Bloxx and Websense, however, it turned out to be a performer. It did exactly what I wanted, simple integration with AD, specific filters for certain groups, excellent reporting, you can request a trial unit from Barracuda, defiantely recommend it!

Martin
 
aix0 said:
I've used DansGuardian in the past, it was very good for the money! Seemed to generate a lot of false positives though, last thing you want to be doing is whiselisting URLs every 5 minutes.

I trialled a content filter by Barracuda Networks a couple of weeks ago, that was really competitively priced in comparison to Bloxx and Websense, however, it turned out to be a performer. It did exactly what I wanted, simple integration with AD, specific filters for certain groups, excellent reporting, you can request a trial unit from Barracuda, defiantely recommend it!

Martin
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I was reading about barracuda, and seemd to be sold tbh! but id prefer others input on it reviews etc which for large scale stuff there normaly isnt just here say, think i might take their trial!
 
Barracuda are very good. We don't use them for web filtering we use a Sonicwall Pro 2040 for that. We DO use a Barracuda 300 spam firewall for inbound SMTP and I have to say it's a very powerful piece of kit. If the web filter is anything close to as clever as the spam filter then you'll be more than happy with it.
 
Skidilliplop said:
Barracuda are very good. We don't use them for web filtering we use a Sonicwall Pro 2040 for that. We DO use a Barracuda 300 spam firewall for inbound SMTP and I have to say it's a very powerful piece of kit. If the web filter is anything close to as clever as the spam filter then you'll be more than happy with it.
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It's the other way around for me. I've trialled and hopefully buying the content filter and was so impressed with it, that I'm trialling the spam filter in the new year, which I'm hoping to be equally as impressive. :)

Two thumbs from me!
 
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