8e6 Technologies R3000 Feature Releases Offer Important Enhancements; New Capabilities Increase Security Capabilities and User Flexibility.ORANGE, Calif. -- 8e6 Technologies, a leading provider of Internet security ''This article or section is being rewritten at Internet security is the process of protecting data and privacy of devices connected to internet from information robbery, hacking, malware infection and unwanted software. appliances for threat monitoring, reporting and remediation, has announced new features for its flagship R3000 Internet filtering appliance. These new features provide a number of important enhancements that help customers manage Internet threats within their organization. Highlights from the latest R3000 Feature Releases are: Google Web Accelerator Software that speeds up the retrieval of Web pages. Anticipating that you might click a link on the current page, it downloads the linked pages in the background. Most of these utilities require nothing more than your browser, while others require a counterpart component in the server. Blocking - Google Web Accelerator is an application that uses Google's network to make Web pages load faster. Once an end user downloads and installs it on their computer, many Web pages will automatically load faster than before. The unintended, and possibly negative, side effect of this new Google feature is that it can often allow end users to bypass their organization's Internet filter. 8e6 Technologies has always provided its customers with packet-level proxy pattern In computer programming, the proxy pattern is a software design pattern. A proxy, in its most general form, is a class functioning as an interface to another thing. detection technology to control many types of Internet technologies -- often referred to as 'proxies' or 'anonymizers' -- that can potentially allow end users to bypass filtering. With this latest R3000 release, 8e6 Technologies customers can now block the use of Google Web Accelerator and further ensure end users are not visiting inappropriate Web sites including pornographic, spyware laden, or other malicious or unapproved un·ap·proved adj. Not approved or sanctioned: an unapproved vaccine; an unapproved protest march. sites. Yahoo! SafeSearch Enforcement - Both Google and Yahoo! give end users the ability to conduct Web searches with various levels of built-in filtering, including SafeSearch mode, which provides an additional layer of filtering and further reduces access to explicit material. Unfortunately, SafeSearch mode can easily be deactivated by end users via their browser settings. However, with the 8e6 R3000 filter, even if the end user changes the search settings, the R3000 will force all Google and Yahoo! searches to be done in SafeSearch mode, which is especially effective for image searches. Wildcard See wild cards and wildcard mask. Filtering - 8e6 Technologies has implemented wildcard-filtering capabilities that add additional URL URL in full Uniform Resource Locator Address of a resource on the Internet. The resource can be any type of file stored on a server, such as a Web page, a text file, a graphics file, or an application program. and sub-domain filtering control. Customers can now use wildcards (such as .website.com) when creating custom categories of blocked sites. 8e6 Technologies is also utilizing wildcards to ensure the 8e6 database, with its millions of categorized cat·e·go·rize tr.v. cat·e·go·rized, cat·e·go·riz·ing, cat·e·go·riz·es To put into a category or categories; classify. cat Web sites, is the most comprehensive and useful in the industry. X-Strikes Enhancements - The popular X-Strikes feature has been enhanced to allow organizations to further enforce their Internet Acceptable Use Policies (AUPs) and remind end users that repeated attempts to access inappropriate material is unacceptable. X-Strikes can be set with administrator defined tiers, can watch all users for violation of the tiers, and can shut off an end user's Internet access See how to access the Internet. for a pre-determined amount of time or until the administrator turns the user's access back on. X-Strikes can easily be applied to all blocked categories, or only selected categories, such as pornography or peer-to-peer/file sharing. Override Account Improvements - Even with flexible and robust Internet filtering, many organizations find it necessary to allow some end users to have access to a blocked Web site. 8e6 Technologies' new multi-tiered override account capability enables companies to manage override accounts at both a global and group level for increased flexibility and control. Additionally, administrators can assign profiles to override accounts to limit abuse. "Our goal is to continually lead the way with innovative features and robust functionality, while providing maximum flexibility for administrators and users in achieving their goals for effective Internet filtering," stated Russell Schumacher, 8e6 Vice President of Engineering. The 8e6 R3000 Internet Filter provides a scalable, high-speed filtering solution. Optimized as a stand-alone appliance, it easily integrates into any network without bottlenecks or downtime. Features include Real-Time Probes, which allow an administrator to monitor a user's Internet usage in real time, and X-Strikes Blocking, where administrators can set criteria for restricting a user's Internet access after repeated attempts to access "unacceptable" Internet sites. 8e6 customers can leverage all new R3000 features, including those above, by downloading the 1.7 and 1.7.10 Releases. About 8e6 Technologies 8e6 Technologies provides high-value security appliances to manage Internet-related threats through filtering reporting and remediation. 8e6 solutions guard against threats from undesirable Web sites, Instant Messaging Exchanging text messages in real time between two or more people logged into a particular instant messaging (IM) service. Instant messaging is more interactive than e-mail because messages are sent immediately, whereas e-mail messages can be queued up in a mail server for seconds or , peer-to-peer file sharing Copying files from one computer to another. See peer-to-peer network, file sharing protocol and file and printer sharing. , viruses and Spyware. A Web filtering Blocking access to unwanted Internet content. Businesses can block content based on traffic type. For example, Web access might be allowed, but file transfers may not. Content can also be blocked by site, using lists of URLs cataloged by content that are updated frequently. pioneer since 1995, the company maintains headquarters in Orange, California The City of Orange is located in Orange County, California, United States. It is approximately 3 miles (6 kilometers) north of the county seat, Santa Ana, and approximately 32 miles (52 kilometers) southeast of Los Angeles. with offices in Taipei and Beijing, as well as a network of channel partners worldwide. For more information, please call 888.786.7999 or visit www.8e6.com. |
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