RE: Internet usage and monitoring

["Serge Jorgensen" <sjorgensen () usinfosec com>]

If you're looking for web filtering as well, there are lots of companies that provide the service. mxInspect does a 
really nice job in a hosted model - and its per-user costs are really cheap. For the size deployment that you've given, 
web monitoring usually doesn't work because no one looks at the logs. A hosted soln with filter provides easy logs that 
people might actually look at - and someone else takes care of the upkeep.




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September 27, 2007
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-----Original Message-----
From: James Harless [mailto:jharless () kidwellcompanies com] 
Sent: Thursday, September 27, 2007 10:49 AM
To: security-basics () lists securityfocus com
Subject: RE: Internet usage and monitoring

Surfcontrol.  Yeah.. the license is more expensive but, you'll save a lot of cost in labor, in my experience.  They 
have a hosted model and an enterprise product they can deploy to your network.  It's easy to deploy and there is very 
good reporting (particularly in the enterprise product).  

I think one of the benefits that is most oft overlooked with web filtering is the protection of the desktop users from 
spyware/adware.  Products like SurfControl/Websense (merging real soon) do a good job of categorizing those sites and 
you'll see a dramatic decrease in the amount of time spent cleaning up that kind of stuff.  I work for a small MSP and 
most of our customers see web filtering save them money over time.

James Harless 
 

-----Original Message-----
From: listbounce () securityfocus com [mailto:listbounce () securityfocus com] On Behalf Of Jon Petre
Sent: Thursday, September 27, 2007 5:08 AM
To: security-basics () lists securityfocus com
Subject: Internet usage and monitoring

Hello List,

I am looking for an idea/program to monitor users internet usage. Due to the 
nature of the customer who requires the monitoring carried out, this program 
must be able to run on a windows box and needs to be very reasonably priced 
(I have no control over budget unfortunately). I am aware of programs such 
as ISA server (too expensive) and squid (*nix based). Any other sugesstions 
would be great.Customers network is round a bout 20 workstations that need 
to be monitored, so pretty small in reality.

Looking forward to all your help.

TIA

Jono

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