web monitoring and blocking for work

wijcc · 31 Jul 2013 at 10:41

Hi all... I need to implement a web/internet monitoring and blocking service for work. Previously i had used websense express to do this. Is there any better software or hardware to do this, looks like websense express is not available anymore?
Looking for something not too expense.. it is going to be used for about 50 employees/50 seperate machines.
Thanks in advance

Deleted member 77746 · 31 Jul 2013 at 11:03

open dns for simple solution? As long as you have a static IP, which you should.

wijcc · 31 Jul 2013 at 17:31

Yeap have a static ip... are you talking about umbrella by opendns? Is it better than Websense Web Security Express?
Thanks.

KIA · 31 Jul 2013 at 18:10

http://www.symantec.com/en/uk/web-security-cloud?fid=symantec-cloud

oldbag · 31 Jul 2013 at 18:11

Or build a squid box, join it to the domain with samba and voila.

wijcc · 1 Aug 2013 at 12:46

how hard is it to setup a squid box? what would i need?

oldbag · 1 Aug 2013 at 13:22

A Linux box, samba with windbind and squid. I used to use the sarg reporting tool on it too, if it still exists. I'd go Debian, personally. It's not difficult either, but the squid.conf file is big!

Nikumba · 1 Aug 2013 at 13:26

We used Webmarshal at my last place was really good, we use Webroot and Cyberoam at my new place

wijcc · 1 Aug 2013 at 13:27

what spec machine would be needed for this?

ruffneck · 1 Aug 2013 at 13:29

We use Cisco Scansafe, works well as SaaS.

oldbag · 1 Aug 2013 at 13:30

wijcc said:
what spec machine would be needed for this?

I ran it on a p4 with 2g ram at the time. More than enough

wijcc · 1 Aug 2013 at 13:31

there is quite a few options.. what would be the easiest option in your opinion

leigh_boy · 1 Aug 2013 at 15:10

we use a barracuder 310 web filter we have 60 users in uk office,
pf sense / squid for 10 users at our whare house
and barracuder 310 for 100 users in usa and same for canada

wijcc · 1 Aug 2013 at 15:36

oldbag said:
I ran it on a p4 with 2g ram at the time. More than enough

is it hard to install and setup.. i have never used linux? Being linux based are all/most of the software free?

Deleted member 77746 · 1 Aug 2013 at 17:17

wijcc said:
there is quite a few options.. what would be the easiest option in your opinion

Open DNS would be the easy one as long as you have access to;

A) The main router that is connecting to the Internet
B) DHCP server so you can modify the DNS settings.

oldbag · 1 Aug 2013 at 17:47

wijcc said:
is it hard to install and setup.. i have never used linux? Being linux based are all/most of the software free?

Not hard at all, if you use Debian you can apt-get install the packages you need. Yep, it's all free. The Debian install is pretty easy too.

wijcc · 1 Aug 2013 at 17:50

mrbell1984 said:
Open DNS would be the easy one as long as you have access to;

A) The main router that is connecting to the Internet
B) DHCP server so you can modify the DNS settings.

yes to both....are you referring to Umbrella by open DNS?

oldbag said:
Not hard at all, if you use Debian you can apt-get install the packages you need. Yep, it's all free. The Debian install is pretty easy too.

thanks i will look into it. Got some old machines with amd duron 1.8 ghz cpu in them.. would they be sufficient?

wijcc · 4 Oct 2013 at 11:52

can anyone tell the difference between opendns umberellla and the cloudbased websense version... what are pros and cons of each?

Also what are the pros and cons of using a cloud based option as opposed to a hardware one like Barracuda Webfilter please?