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Network use introduces questions for system administrators: Are employees spending time on personal interests instead of work? How are network resources being spent? Are there potential threats to network security? Can filtering protect our children on the Internet? Access control filtering software answers these questions by defining what sites are filtered and by tracking use to assess the effectiveness of filtering.
iPrism filtering is configured through user profiles, which define what kinds of sites can be accessed and when. As important as user access rules are as part of iPrism’s access control filtering software, iPrism incorporates two monitoring mechanisms to review immediate and historical network usage with the other filtering aspects of the access control filtering software:
- The Real-Time Monitor shows what people are seeing and who is viewing that content at that moment, revealing information like the following:
- Websites currently open
- The number and profiles of current users
- Bandwidth usage
- Actions taken by iPrism, such as overrides or blocks
- Protocols used, such as web (HTTP) and instant messaging protocols
When the Real-Time Monitor is open, it logs up to 25,000 entries at a time, then deletes the oldest entries as new actions occur.
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- Reporting offers information from the network down to a single user on pages visited, how long web-browsing sessions last, and the amount of bandwidth used. Reporting helps identify Internet use; there are reports for the most accessed sites and other statistics, as well as reports over instant messaging use. Usage reports are an important tool for analyzing user patterns and for enforcing acceptable use policies, even identifying potentially weak security or lost productivity.
Both reporting and the Real-Time Monitor in iPrism have an easy-to-use interface. iPrism access control filtering software sets more than filtering rules — iPrism allows administrators to track how effective those rules are and to pinpoint weak spots in network protection. The question that administrators from corporations to coffee shops to schools is "can filtering protect our children on the Internet?" With iPrism’s access control filtering software, the answer is yes.
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