Tangent Announces Web Hawk 3.0 - Low Cost Content Filtering, Now With Real-time Content Recognition Technology.BURLINGAME, Calif. -- Tangent, Inc., a leading technology company, today announced Web Hawk 3.0, a second-generation content filtering See Web filtering and parental control software. solution designed with real-time content recognition technology combined with standard 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. list technology. Web Hawk offers similar features and benefits to Surf Watch and Web Sense at approximately one third the cost, saving organizations thousands of dollars. Web Hawk is available direct from Tangent at www.tangent.com/webhawk. Web Hawk real-time content recognition makes it more effective for administrators to block access to Proxy sites and foreign language adult content sites. "There are estimated to be over 80 million adult content sites on the internet worldwide," said Doug Monsour, Tangent's President. "Solutions that rely on standard URL list and keyword technology alone are not as effective as a solution that combines those technologies with real-time content recognition." "Web Hawk employs Real-time Content Recognition to track image patterns, font styles, colors and many other features common to adult and proxy sites to sort them away from valid web sites and block user access," Monsour added. "Real-time Content Recognition combined with URL lists makes Web Hawk a better solution." "In addition, organizations are paying far too much for content filtering solutions. Web Hawk has no software license fees and its update fees are priced at less than one third of what Websense and Surf Control See Web filtering. are charging." Features include: easy installation, Active Directory Integration, flexible rules and monitoring, page level blocking, email alert notifications, automated task schedulers to eliminate day-to-day administration, real-time Internet traffic Internet traffic is the flow of data around the Internet. It includes web traffic, which is the amount of that data that is related to the World Wide Web, along with the traffic from other major uses of the Internet, such as electronic mail and peer-to-peer networks. / bandwidth utilization reporting. Web Hawk supports Windows NT (Windows New Technology) A 32-bit operating system from Microsoft for Intel x86 CPUs. NT is the core technology in Windows 2000 and Windows XP (see Windows). Available in separate client and server versions, it includes built-in networking and preemptive multitasking. 4.0 SP6; Windows 2000 SP2 (or higher) operating systems Operating systems can be categorized by technology, ownership, licensing, working state, usage, and by many other characteristics. In practice, many of these groupings may overlap. ; Windows XP The previous client version of Windows. XP was a major upgrade to the client version of Windows 2000 with numerous changes to the user interface. XP improved support for gaming, digital photography, instant messaging, wireless networking and sharing connections to the Internet. SP1; Windows 2003; and Internet Explorer Microsoft's Web browser, which comes with Windows starting with Windows 98. Commonly called "IE," versions for Mac and Unix are also available. Internet Explorer is the most widely used Web browser on the market. It has also been the browser engine in AOL's Internet access software. 5.01 or higher. Web Hawk has no license fees. The total cost for annual update fees for a 500 seat network is less than $1,500, with numerous pricing discounts available. About Tangent Tangent is a leading provider of technology solutions worldwide. Solutions include Email Archival appliances, Spam filtering, Content Filtering. Products include all-in-one computers, rugged mini computers, desktops, notebooks, servers and storage. (c)2007 Tangent, Inc. All rights reserved. Tangent and the Tangent logo are registered trademarks. |
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