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Re: Quick Survey - Does everyone do SOME form of "web filtering"??
From: Jeff Kell <jeff-kell () UTC EDU>
Date: Sat, 8 May 2010 15:06:54 -0400
On 5/7/2010 11:00 PM, SCHALIP, MICHAEL wrote:
*My question: Does everyone do some sort of web filtering? If you *do* filter your web access - how long have you done so? And do you have a "bypass" process?***
Not in a sense of content filtering, no. We block all access (null-route) certain areas of the net (e.g., Spamhaus DROP list) known to be of no purpose other than badness. We block web access by IP and/or servername for a select list of malware and phishing. We recently added blocks to a handful of targets based on URI filename content. None of the above have generated any exceptions or complaints. We formerly had a wider-scale DNS blacklist in place, but did run into at least one exception when a marketing class was studying some online marketing sites/methods which were also rather blatant adware partners and thus in the list. But no, no "nanny filters". Jeff **
Current thread:
- Quick Survey - Does everyone do SOME form of "web filtering"?? SCHALIP, MICHAEL (May 07)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- Re: Quick Survey - Does everyone do SOME form of "web filtering"?? Willis Marti (May 08)
- Re: Quick Survey - Does everyone do SOME form of "web filtering"?? Childs, Aaron (May 08)
- Re: Quick Survey - Does everyone do SOME form of "web filtering"?? Adam Nave (May 08)
- Re: Quick Survey - Does everyone do SOME form of "web filtering"?? Will Froning (May 08)
- Re: Quick Survey - Does everyone do SOME form of "web filtering"?? Jeff Kell (May 08)
- Re: Quick Survey - Does everyone do SOME form of "web filtering"?? Patrick Goggins (May 08)
- Re: Quick Survey - Does everyone do SOME form of "web filtering"?? Walter Petruska (May 08)
- Re: Quick Survey - Does everyone do SOME form of "web filtering"?? Joel Rosenblatt (May 08)
- Re: Quick Survey - Does everyone do SOME form of "web filtering"?? Joel Rosenblatt (May 08)
- Re: Quick Survey - Does everyone do SOME form of "web filtering"?? Ozzie Paez (May 08)
- Re: Quick Survey - Does everyone do SOME form of "web filtering"?? Roger Safian (May 09)
- Re: Quick Survey - Does everyone do SOME form of "web filtering"?? Dennis Bohn (May 10)
- Re: Quick Survey - Does everyone do SOME form of "web filtering"?? Zach Jansen (May 10)
- Re: Quick Survey - Does everyone do SOME form of "web filtering"?? John C Borne (May 10)
- Re: Quick Survey - Does everyone do SOME form of "web filtering"?? Daniel Bennett (May 10)
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