If you're looking for web filtering as well, there are lots of companies that
provide the service. mxInspect does a really nice job in a hosted model - and
its per-user costs are really cheap. For the size deployment that you've given,
web monitoring usually doesn't work because no one looks at the logs. A hosted
soln with filter provides easy logs that people might actually look at - and
someone else takes care of the upkeep.
Sylint
Information Security,
Intelligence & Analysis
Serge Jorgensen
sjorgensen@usinfosec.com
+1.941.951.6015
The Sylint Group
PO Box 49886
Sarasota, Florida 34230 USA
www.usinfosec.com
September 27, 2007
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-----Original Message-----
From: James Harless [mailto:jharless@kidwellcompanies.com]
Sent: Thursday, September 27, 2007 10:49 AM
To: security-basics@lists.securityfocus.com
Subject: RE: Internet usage and monitoring
Surfcontrol. Yeah.. the license is more expensive but, you'll save a lot of
cost in labor, in my experience. They have a hosted model and an enterprise
product they can deploy to your network. It's easy to deploy and there is very
good reporting (particularly in the enterprise product).
I think one of the benefits that is most oft overlooked with web filtering is
the protection of the desktop users from spyware/adware. Products like
SurfControl/Websense (merging real soon) do a good job of categorizing those
sites and you'll see a dramatic decrease in the amount of time spent cleaning
up that kind of stuff. I work for a small MSP and most of our customers see
web filtering save them money over time.
James Harless
-----Original Message-----
From: listbounce@securityfocus.com [mailto:listbounce@securityfocus.com] On
Behalf Of Jon Petre
Sent: Thursday, September 27, 2007 5:08 AM
To: security-basics@lists.securityfocus.com
Subject: Internet usage and monitoring
Hello List,
I am looking for an idea/program to monitor users internet usage. Due to the
nature of the customer who requires the monitoring carried out, this program
must be able to run on a windows box and needs to be very reasonably priced
(I have no control over budget unfortunately). I am aware of programs such
as ISA server (too expensive) and squid (*nix based). Any other sugesstions
would be great.Customers network is round a bout 20 workstations that need
to be monitored, so pretty small in reality.
Looking forward to all your help.
TIA
Jono
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