Cerberian Releases Next Generation Solution -- Web Filter 2.0; Small footprint allows for quick and seamless integration by network appliance manufacturers and service providers.

Business Editors/High-Tech Writers

SALT LAKE CITY--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 25, 2002

Cerberian, an ASP offering next-generation Internet content filtering solutions through integrated technology partners, today released Cerberian Web Filter 2.0, the second major update to its Web Filter service, featuring faster and more accurate Internet content filtering and improved administrative and reporting capabilities.

The Cerberian Web Filter 2.0 is offered as an outsourced solution, specifically designed for network appliance manufacturers and service providers. With the filter's small, ultra-light footprint, Cerberian Web Filter 2.0 integrates easily with most Internet-enabled products and services and features the company's proprietary Dynamic Real-Time Rating and Content Vectoring technologies, which provide for a more complete and accurate context-driven filtering solution. Cerberian's Web Filter 2.0 also has a pre-built, web-based administration site to assist Cerberian partners with integration, resulting in a rapid return on investment.

"With the rapid growth of the Internet, Web filter technologies need to be increasingly faster and more accurate," said Jeff Smith, Cerberian's chief executive officer. "This update was a major undertaking for our company, and the resulting new architecture and infrastructure are the backbone to what has become the fastest, most accurate filtering solution available. We developed our Cerberian Web Filter 2.0 to be cutting-edge, scalable technology that easily integrates with existing network devices, thus eliminating unnecessary hardware burdens and expenses from business owners and operators."

As part of Cerberian's Web Filter 2.0 service update, the company improved functionality that makes the service faster and easier to administer. Features include an improved content rating technology that increases the accuracy of all rated sites, including those that have to be rated on the fly. The filter allows administrators to schedule blocking and filtering based on days of the week and/or time of day resulting in increased productivity during working hours.

Cerberian's Web Filter 2.0 reporting functions offer the benefit of presenting usage information for a single web-based administration site. With data detailing peak usage times, sites visited and user information, administrators can more easily understand how to set policy to control network bandwidth usage and help maximize employees' time on the job.

"One of the major advantages of our Web Filter 2.0 is that it's a centrally managed system, which eliminates the need for an expensive network of filtering and reporting servers," Smith said. "All of our customers benefit from their ability to monitor, filter, and report on employee Internet activity anytime and from any location using Cerberian Web Filter 2.0. We have simplified the deployment of the most reliable Web filtering solution by making it small, unobtrusive and compatible with most Internet-enabled products and services."

The benefits of Cerberian's Web Filter 2.0 are found in its database accuracy, security, reliability, scalability and low latency.

In addition to the company's vast database of categorized URLs, the company's Dynamic Real-Time Rating (DRTR) service reads, rates and sorts both new and dynamically generated web pages in real-time into one of Cerberian's 57 content categories. The database then stores the ratings, and they immediately become available to all Cerberian customers. Cerberian's Content Vectoring technology not only looks at the meaning of words, but also looks at the words in context and the formatting applied to the words, in order to determine the category that applies to the page.

Cerberian strives to sustain a 99.5 percent service uptime and maintains geographically distributed services, which provide reliable and redundant support for uninterrupted filtering. Cerberian Web Filter is also designed for any size organization allowing other service capabilities to be added as demand increases.

"Our Web Filter is designed for speed so that end-users will not notice the difference between a request directly to a Web site and a request processed through the Cerberian Web Filter," Smith added. "In addition, our Web Filter security features provide for secure communications and data transfers, keeping statistics related to an enterprise's employees' Web usage and other information private."

Network device manufacturers can configure their Internet devices to use the Cerberian service in one of two ways. Cerberian can host all aspects of the content filtering service or the manufacturer can elect to store policy information locally rather than in the Cerberian Data Center, which houses all the master databases, the administrative Web server and logging information used to generate users' real-time reports.

To enable a device to use Cerberian Web Filter, manufactures integrate the Cerberian protocol with their device software. When installed, the device intercepts user requests for web pages and uses the Cerberian service to determine whether or not to allow the user to view the page. All management and administrative functions, including creating groups, users and policies, and reporting can be done through a Web browser.

About Cerberian

Cerberian, Inc. develops Internet content filtering solutions designed specifically to power Internet enabled products and services. Cerberian's flagship product, Cerberian Web Filter, provides the most effective and efficient filtering solution available, ensuring a safer, more productive Internet experience for businesses, homes, and schools. Cerberian Web Filter features a proprietary Content Vectoring and Dynamic Real-Time Rating (DRTR) technology that increases the accuracy and speed of Internet content filtering. With Cerberian Web Filter businesses can now have an affordable, easy to manage Internet filtering solution right on the box. Network appliance manufacturers and service providers can benefit from the added value filtering brings.

For more information about Cerberian, please visit www.cerberian.com or e-mail [e-mail].