Re: Web filtering

["Reyes, Esteban" <reyes () LAKEFOREST EDU>]

It's about 100mb.

Thanks,

Esteban

On 5/26/09 9:58 AM, "Lopez, Diego" <Diego.Lopez () MDC EDU> wrote:

In order to keep things in perspective, what is your approximate Internet traffic ?

Diego Lopez
Network Analyst
Miami Dade College


From: The EDUCAUSE Security Constituent Group Listserv [mailto:SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU] On Behalf Of Barros, 
Jacob
Sent: Tuesday, May 26, 2009 10:27 AM
To: SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU
Subject: Re: [SECURITY] Web filtering

We use iPrism by St Bernard.  We were happy with Barracuda until the box began to have major failures, i.e. stopped all 
traffic. Only a hard reset would restore service.  We eventually had to leave them because none of their appliances 
couldn't handle our 'normal' web traffic.  In my opinion, their solution just doesn't fit higher ed anymore.

iPrism has been a beautiful substitute.  Some of their categories aren't quite what we hope for, but it's a breeze to 
customize.  In the 7 months we have been using it there have only been one or two times that I can remember a website 
being mis-categorized from a dynamic update.

In a related note, we believe both boxes are equally capable of curbing many malware infections.  When we were in 
between solutions, there was a window of about six days were there was no appliance in place. After about three days we 
got flooded with machines being infected with all sorts of goodies.  It all ended shortly after we installed the iPrism 
for testing.

FWIW

Jacob Barros
Network Administrator
Grace College



From: The EDUCAUSE Security Constituent Group Listserv [mailto:SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU] On Behalf Of Charles 
Seitz
Sent: Tuesday, May 19, 2009 3:59 PM
To: SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU
Subject: Re: [SECURITY] Web filtering

We have been using a Barracuda web content filter for a while. I can't say it's been 100% smooth. It died the other day 
and we had to replace it, and sometimes it just does odd things that slow down web surfing to a crawl. We only use it 
on the fac/staff network.

________________________________

Charles A. Seitz
Senior Security Analyst
University of Tennessee Information Security Office
Martin Campus
cseitz () tennessee edu
(731) 881-7966



On 5/19/09 2:22 PM, "Reyes, Esteban" <reyes () LAKEFOREST EDU> wrote:
Has anyone been able to implement web filtering with dynamic updates? If so, what are you using to achieve that?

Thanks,

Esteban Reyes | Lake Forest College