Websites are defined in terms of “categories”, some of which are stand-alone entities and some of which (particularly those with a vast number of candidate sites, such as adult material) are split into sub-categories. Checking your downloads for viruses and other malware.Permitting/blocking each request based on an access policy that you define.Logging all access attempts made to websites.The service uses global load balancing, so that when accessed via a generic hostname it'll automatically send your requests to the most appropriate location. Traditionally the way to implement the product is to run up one or more servers within your network and point your client devices at it as their proxy now, however, you can forget the internal aspect completely and use their externally hosted cloud service.Īt the time of writing the service has 15 clusters, spread in locations around the world including the UK. WebSense is probably the best-known provider of website filtering and logging – they have, after all, been doing it since the mid 1990s.
