Optenet WebFilter

Intelligent Security That Keeps Enterprises Safe and Productive Online

For large enterprises, the Internet represents a huge security risk.  It is a necessary medium for gathering and exchanging business-critical information, but simple human error and inappropriate use can expose the organization to immense opportunities for security breaches. Beyond security, organizations also need to ensure that Internet use complies with company policies and that improper usage does not impede productivity. There must be a delicate balance between monitoring and managing Web access without creating an unpleasant or inefficient user experience.

Optenet WebFilter is an intelligent, incredibly accurate Secure Web Gateway solution that identifies, classifies and blocks access to thousands of unsafe and inappropriate Web sites. Optenet's filtering technology – including a multilingual analyzer based on advanced artificial intelligence techniques – dynamically scours and classifies online content with far fewer overblocking errors than any other solution on the market. Employees will have easy, unlimited access to the sites they need to access – and will be blocked from sites they don’t.

Superior protection and increased productivity is the key to the Optenet WebFilter solution.

Optenet WebFilter Features

• Centralized policy-based management, independent of the organization’s network infrastructure
• Highly customizable Internet use policies that manage Web access and filter sites based on a wide variety of criteria
• Option to block/manage communications protocols and applications such as instant messaging, P2P file sharing, remote access,  chat and VoIP
• Optenet’s exclusive 24x7 online content-reclassification service, which ensures minimal overblocking/false positive rates
• Powerful reporting tools for analyzing and monitoring Internet use in real time across the organization
• Multilingual content analysis in 180 languages
• Ability to establish policies for users and user groups defined via LDAP, RADIUS, etc.
• Multiple installation modes including proxy, bridge, sniffer, ICAP and router
• Customized reporting tailored to an organization’s compliance-related needs

Why is Optenet WebFilter the ideal solution for large enterprises?

• Maximum performance that creates a smooth, seamless user experience
• Ability to set policy based on granular criteria
• Central management resulting in  reduced  IT workload
• Scalability that allows security to grow with the organization’s business and performance demands
• Flexible solution that can be combined with other Optenet technology to create custom security solutions, delivered on an optimized Secure Web Gateway Appliance
• Automatic updates of new product versions and features

Optimum Integration with CCOTTA™

At the heart of Optenet’s integrated management platform is the Carrier Class Optenet Transparent Traffic Analyzer (CCOTTA™). CCOTTA features an intelligent management engine that classifies the different types of traffic according to their protocol – from Layer 2 to Layer 7 – and then transmits the information to the appropriate security module.  CCOTTA is capable of differentiating between protocols within the same category and reporting network statistics in real time.  The traffic policy system allows users to define blocking and unblocking policies as well as limit bandwidth by protocol and QoS – features that combine to deliver deep packet inspection (DPI).

CCOTTA’s intelligence capabilities are unrivaled; ensuring a level of protection impossible to match with individual solutions.