Re: Web filtering

["Barros, Jacob" <jkbarros () GRACE EDU>]

We use iPrism by St Bernard.  We were happy with Barracuda until the box
began to have major failures, i.e. stopped all traffic.  Only a hard reset
would restore service.  We eventually had to leave them because none of
their appliances couldn't handle our 'normal' web traffic.  In my opinion,
their solution just doesn't fit higher ed anymore.

iPrism has been a beautiful substitute.  Some of their categories aren't
quite what we hope for, but it's a breeze to customize.  In the 7 months we
have been using it there have only been one or two times that I can remember
a website being mis-categorized from a dynamic update.

In a related note, we believe both boxes are equally capable of curbing many
malware infections.  When we were in between solutions, there was a window
of about six days were there was no appliance in place.  After about three
days we got flooded with machines being infected with all sorts of goodies.
It all ended shortly after we installed the iPrism for testing.

FWIW

Jacob Barros
Network Administrator
Grace College


From: The EDUCAUSE Security Constituent Group Listserv
[mailto:SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU] On Behalf Of Charles Seitz
Sent: Tuesday, May 19, 2009 3:59 PM
To: SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU
Subject: Re: [SECURITY] Web filtering

We have been using a Barracuda web content filter for a while. I can't say
it's been 100% smooth. It died the other day and we had to replace it, and
sometimes it just does odd things that slow down web surfing to a crawl. We
only use it on the fac/staff network.
  _____

Charles A. Seitz
Senior Security Analyst
University of Tennessee Information Security Office
Martin Campus
cseitz () tennessee edu
(731) 881-7966



On 5/19/09 2:22 PM, "Reyes, Esteban" <reyes () LAKEFOREST EDU> wrote:
Has anyone been able to implement web filtering with dynamic updates? If so,
what are you using to achieve that?

Thanks,

Esteban Reyes | Lake Forest College

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