WebMarshal is a total business solution for employee Internet management, combining URL filtering, anti-virus, anti-spyware, content security and productivity management into a single, easy-to-manage solution. WebMarshal enables organizations to apply management policies for security, compliance, behavior and acceptable use to Internet activity – meeting their obligations to assure a safe and secure working environment for all employees.

WebMarshal Overview

WebMarshal allows organizations to control employee access to inappropriate content, block access to illegal content and manage employees' personal Internet use, as well as securing and protecting the network against viruses, spyware and other forms of malicious code.

SECURE

The Internet presents a serious dilemma for many organizations. It is an essential business tool, but it is also a vulnerable entry point for a range of security threats such as viruses, spyware and malicious code.

WebMarshal helps to maximize the benefit and limit the risk. WebMarshal offers a wide spectrum of security features including:

• Anti-virus and anti-spyware via third-party integration

• Blocking downloads of prohibited file types

• Preventative blocking of spam and phishing websites

Internet security is about keeping the bad things on the outside of your organization and ensuring that the good things remain within. WebMarshal performs thorough content security checks to secure your organization, carefully analyzing URL links, files and text to screen out unwanted or hazardous content. Completely customizable, WebMarshal can apply nearly any security policy that you require – including your own customized keyword analysis scripts.

PROTECT

Use of an organization’s Internet access by employees is not only vulnerable to external security threats. It is also prone to misuse from within. Maintaining productivity, blocking offensive, pornographic or illegal content, monitoring levels of personal Internet use and ensuring appropriate use of bandwidth are all important issues for executive managers and system administrators. These issues are often addressed within organizations via their Acceptable Use Policies (AUP).

The WebMarshal Console makes it easy to define and manage your policies.

WebMarshal is able to monitor and enforce any corporate AUP for employee Internet use. This enables you to protect your employees from inappropriate and illegal content and your business from embarrassment and the ever present and avoidable danger of legal exposure. WebMarshal provides you with powerful, granular control over all aspects of Internet use:

• Content – analyze and categorize new websites in real time to ensure that inappropriate but previously unrecorded websites are still blocked. WebMarshal can sort new websites into relevant categories such as adult, hate, gambling, shopping, trading or even humor so you can provide granular access to different types of content.

• URL Filtering Lists – integrate with third-party URL filtering list providers, or you can build your own with WebMarshal as your users browse the Internet. WebMarshal applies both blacklists and whitelists to prevent access to inappropriate content but ensure unhindered access to valid business websites.

• File Downloads & Uploads – control access to different file types such as executables, video, music files and archive files like ZIP. Scan files for viruses and spyware in real time to prevent infection. Scan uploads for file types and text content, to protect your proprietary and confidential information, intellectual property, financial and other restricted information. The unlawful and unauthorized downloading of illegal copies of music, films and other works by employees is a major source of legal liability and can expose the corporation to involvement in both civil and criminal proceedings.

• Users – manage user accounts simply and easily. Drag and drop users between groups to change a user’s privileges.

• Quotas and Personal Use – manage Internet access as a business resource. Set quotas for Internet use limited by time and/or bandwidth. You can allocate different levels of quotas for different users (bigger quotas for those that require them). WebMarshal also supports ‘soft-blocking’ which warns a user that they may be about to access inappropriate content but gives them the option to ‘click-through’ to the site if they feel it is of business benefit to them. This action is then recorded and can be reported on.

Create a flexible and efficient working environment by defining appropriate times when personal internet use is permitted.

COMPLY

Every organization in the world must comply with the obligations placed upon it by the legal jurisdiction in which it is based and operates. Some of these laws apply to the organization itself. Others attach directly to organization officers, managers or trustees. Beyond these, industry-specific regulations may apply which impose further rigorous obligations.

Depending on the locations around the world where your organization is active and the industry concerned, there may be laws, rules, regulations and standards that require organizations to:

• guarantee individual privacy
• protect client and employee confidentiality
• enable product and organization information disclosure
• ensure auditability and transparency of organizational processes
• prove minimum standards of effort directed to compliance
• provide levels of disclosure
• prevent racism, bullying and harassment
• stop exposure to offensive and illegal content

WebMarshal provides a portfolio of solutions to meet a broad range of international compliance requirements.

Exposure to Inappropriate Content – for almost any organization, from primary schools to large businesses, there is an obligation for the organization to prevent exposure to inappropriate and illegal Internet-based content, whether accidental or intentional. WebMarshal can support any policy, and provides evidence of organizational compliance and employee misbehavior.

Confidentiality – manage, protect, and secure confidential content such as legal documents, product designs, roadmaps, customer lists, non-disclosure agreements and contracts. Prevent these kinds of files from leaving your organization via webmail.

Disclaimers – remind users of your acceptable Internet usage policies whenever they start a new browsing session and have them acknowledge that they will comply with these policies before proceeding.

Reporting – report on all aspects of Internet use. WebMarshal can allow you to analyze and understand whether you are meeting your compliance obligations, and can help you to identify areas where compliance techniques can be improved. WebMarshal reports disclose organizational Internet use in depth – from where your users been browsing to what files they have downloaded.

A variety of built-in reports provide you with a clear understanding of who is breaching your internet usage policies and how your organization uses the internet.

TOTAL SOLUTION

WebMarshal is more than just an Internet security system. It is more than a policy enforcement tool. WebMarshal is a total solution for employee Internet management.

Self-contained Proxy Server – WebMarshal is its own independent proxy server or can plug directly into Microsoft ISA Server.

Reporting and Analysis – WebMarshal reports can help you to better understand exactly how your organization uses the Internet. WebMarshal provides reports that can show you trends and patterns. These reports cover such things as peak traffic times, most popular websites, how long users browse for, file types downloaded, who uses the Internet the most and how much bandwidth is used by individual users, departments and the entire company. You can even use WebMarshal reports to apportion company Internet costs to different departments.

Compliance - With WebMarshal, your executive team can demonstrate that they are taking all practical steps to avoid harm being done. They can also identify further protective and compliance steps that may be required.

 

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