Web Filtering

By Author: Abhilash Sonwane
Total Articles: 18
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"While preventing surfing through web-based proxies is the key offering from the latest Cyberoam version release, there's more to it than that.

The release also captures the latest trends in surfing and downloads. Streaming radio and TV online is one area. The other is rising mobile application downloads with our growing fascination with the latest in mobile phones. Cyberoam's content filtering today stands enhanced with 82+ comprehensive categories, making it one of the most comprehensive category databases. The key area we focused on this time is controlling access to emerging unproductive sites.

What we have added are categories like ‘AudioSearch' and ‘Internet/Radio/TV'; and then there is the ‘MobileEntertainment' category to block mobile application downloads.

Unchecked HTTP uploads are a significant cause of data leakage. Cyberoam already carried the ability to block document upload over HTTP. Now it reports filenames uploaded via webmail attachments or to storage sites along with the username in keeping with its identity-based security architecture. The benefits we had in mind when ...
... taking up this development is to help in audit controls and meeting compliance requirements, all of which play a critical role in preventing data leakage.

Another enhancement to prevent data leakage is the detection and prevention of phone home spyware by Cyberoam IPS, preventing spyware in the network from sending out sensitive data. It also gives details of the infected PC with the username and the spyware application name. This way you zero in the user and the machine instantly even if you are operating in a dynamic IP scenario.

So that's the main highlights of Cyberoam version 9.5.4.66. It's to do with greater security, productivity and control over data leakage. And the complete release is on http://www.cyberoam.com/versionrelease.html."