Re: WebSense

[Laurent LEVIER <llevier () argosnet com>]

Hi Scott,

We are also using Websense, as we are using Pix, and we have no choice.

Websense is regularly missing requests and going down (as Pix says). Check for PIX 304006.

But worth : filter proxies, babelfish is filtered, but not its IP.
I got many others this way. We gave them many URLs to filter. The next download, it is. One month later, it is no 
longer.

I must consider Websense lacks of profesionnalism with his tool, and hope they will make a big effort soon.

Personnally, I setup a Linux box, pushing Pix logs (allowed) to a MySQL database, offering realtime log check for 
projects, traffic queries, top xx, logs regexp search, ...

Brgrds/Laurent

At 10:42 18/09/00 -0500, shewitt () cdw com wrote:
> I'm currently evaluating WebSense (http://www.websense.com/index.cfm) with
> my PIX firewall.  It seems to do a great job of filtering web sites.  I've
> also been playing with the reporter software which logs all the URL's people
> request into a SQL database.  This too seems to be working great.  Although,
> when using the PIX, you cannot keep track of bytes downloaded, so many of
> the canned reports do not work (since they are based on bytes downloaded).
> I have started experimenting with different queries directly on the database
> that will yield reports with relavent information.
> I'm curious about the experience other's have had with WebSense?  Any horror
> stories?  
> Is there any competition to WebSense?  Anybody else out there make software
> so I can log my internet usage?
>
>
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Laurent LEVIER
IT Systems & Networks, Unix System Engineer
Security Specialist

Argosnet Security Server : http://www.Argosnet.com
"Le Veilleur Technologique", "The Technology Watcher"


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