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Spam & junk e-mail		Porn & Other Inappropriate Content
Confidential Information		Malicious Code
Viruses		Recreational Surfing

SPAM

Ask anyone who uses e-mail and they will tell you their number-one complaint about working online: It's spam. And it's no longer just a nuisance. Spam can seriously disrupt business communications. Spam comprises a third or more of all Internet e-mail. That means a third of network bandwidth and a third of the disk space dedicated to holding incoming mail is essentially wasted.

SurfControl provides a multileveled approach to controlling spam. Multiple layers are more likely to detect and control spam than any single method working alone. For example, SurfControl provides both a database (Anti-Spam Agent) containing the "digital fingerprints" of known spam content plus a customizable Dictionary of keywords most likely to identify spam. LexiMatch provides an additional layer of spam protection. This is proprietary software that applies Boolean logic to find combinations of keywords typically found in spam.

There is also great flexibility about how SurfControl handles spam once it has been identified - whether it is to be isolated, deleted, forwarded to key individuals, or allowed to proceed to the addressee. Comprehensive monitoring and reporting tools make it easy for network administrators to profile their spam vulnerabilities and responses - and to adjust policies accordingly.

Spam is in fact only one of many content security threats facing your organization. SurfControl solutions help you manage your total risk. They provide comprehensive, highly integrated feature sets in their own right plus close integration with industry leading mail server and firewall solutions.

Confidential Information

To move information fast in today's competitive marketplace, e-mail is often your only option. That means ensuring the confidentiality of sensitive e-mails - those that have the most impact on your business.

But short of screening all e-mails personally, how do you know that confidential information is in fact protected?

SurfControl E-mail filtering products work at multiple levels to ensure the confidentiality of your e-mail - both e-mail that stays within your network and e-mail that moves between your company and the outside world. Only a layered approach can provide total risk management. Only SurfControl gives it to you in all these ways:

Intelligent / relevant / flexible content management

Customizable keyword dictionaries of words found in financial, legal and other document categories

Visual Learning Agent  - protects confidential and critical information from security risks that arise from accidental or malicious leakage with this unique content development tool

LexiMatch - proprietary software that applies Boolean logic to find combinations of keywords most likely to identify sensitive e-mails

Flexible tools to enforce your individual Acceptable Use Policy

Highly flexible rule administration that lets you enforce the precise e-mail policies you set - including what you want done with e-mail that breaks the rules

Advanced monitoring and reporting capabilities to help you manage your policies

Flexible notification that alerts senders and designated managers of attempted violations

While no set of security solutions can fix everything, content security threats - like confidentiality breaches - represent a major risk class against which you can take effective countermeasures.

Confidentiality breaches are in fact only one of many content security threats facing your organization. SurfControl solutions help you manage your total risk. They provide comprehensive, highly integrated feature sets in their own right plus close integration with industry leading anti-virus software and firewall solutions.

Get the Total Filtering Solution. Get SurfControl.

Viruses

Viruses are one of the greatest economic disasters happening to companies today. More expensive than fire, floods, and physical thefts - a single virus spread on the Internet can cost billions of dollars in lost productivity, damaged equipment, and lost business. There are the thousands of incidents that happen every day that go unreported - incidents like these:

• An unsuspecting employee brings a virus onto the network while checking their web-based e-mail account.
• A manager downloads a virus in a document, accidentally erasing every Office document on a server
• An e-mail attachment launches the newest virus before the AV database has been updated.

These incidents happen even with other measures in place like firewalls and anti-virus software. That's why organizations employ SurfControl - to achieve a total filtering solution. SurfControl offers:

Integration with other safeguards
SurfControl ensures that e-mail is checked for other reasons (i.e., spam) as well as scanned by your anti-virus software.

Faster response to e-mail hazards
With SurfControl you can filter specific e-mails (for example, by subject line) known to contain viruses - even before anti-virus software is updated.

Better management of web-based threats
Keep employees away from hacker sites and other Web trouble spots so they never have the opportunity to download malicious code or viruses in the first place.

Limit to downloads of appropriate material
SurfControl can stop the downloading of executable files - from all sites, only recreational sites, by file-type, by user or by time of day.

Enhanced monitoring, reporting and management
SurfControl provides tools that let you enforce your Acceptable Use Policy - you can diagnose current activity, see who's visited the virus-infected Web sites and save hours tracking down infected systems.

While no set of security solutions can fix everything, content security threats - like viruses - represent a major risk class against which you can take effective countermeasures.

Viruses are in fact only one of many content security threats facing your organization. SurfControl solutions help you manage your total risk. They provide comprehensive, highly integrated feature sets in their own right plus close integration with industry leading anti-virus software and firewall solutions.

Get the Total Filtering Solution. Get SurfControl.

Porn & Other Inappropriate Content

Companies worldwide need to provide a positive work environment for their employees. For example, in the US, companies with 25 or more employees must, under federal law, provide a work environment free of gender, ethnic or racial harassment or discrimination. That requires taking reasonable steps to eliminate harassing materials from the workplace. It may not matter whether the company knew employees were downloading pornographic images or passing racist e-mail jokes. The test at trial could be whether well-known remedies were available to prevent abuses, whether a policy existed to apply those remedies, and whether the policy was actually enforced.

Illegal or offensive content may include:

• Pornographic images downloaded off the Web
• E-mail jokes (either sent or received)
• Pornographic or racially offensive e-mail attachments
• Rumors or gossip regarding a fellow employee
• Unauthorized release of personal employee information
• E-mail discussions that result in employee harassment or discrimination

Illegal or offensive content - both Web and e-mail - is a risk SurfControl can help you manage. Here's how:

Comprehensive Content
The world's most complete databases of known abusive content (Anti-Spam Agent, URL Category List)

Adaptive Intelligence
Software that dynamically assigns risk levels to content not previously classified as high-risk. ( Virtual Control Agent, Virtual Image Agent, Virtual Learning Agent)

Accurate Dictionaries
15 dictionaries of keywords found in offensive e-mails - dictionaries that are comprehensive and customizable to your specific needs. Extreme accuracy results from Boolean logic (LexiMatch) that analyzes keywords in combination.

But the power of SurfControl to protect you is greater than the sum of all these individual features. It's the power to mix, match, integrate, and easily manage features to provide exactly the right content security policy for you. With SurfControl's reporting and monitoring tools, you can view your organization's e-mail and Web usage patterns - and identify potential problem areas - so you can create the correct policy. Then with easy drag-and-drop rules administration, you can establish the content safeguards that exactly meet the needs of your organization - no more, no less.

While no set of security solutions can fix everything, content security threats - like illegal or offensive content - represent a major risk class against which you can take effective countermeasures.

Illegal or offensive content is in fact only one of many content security threats facing your organization. SurfControl solutions help you manage your total risk. They provide comprehensive, highly integrated feature sets in their own right plus close integration with industry leading anti-virus software and firewall solutions.

Get the Total Filtering Solution. Get SurfControl.

Malicious Code

Viruses are one of the greatest economic disasters happening to companies today. More expensive than fire, floods, and physical thefts - a single virus spread on the Internet can cost billions of dollars in lost productivity, damaged equipment, and lost business. There are the thousands of incidents that happen every day that go unreported - incidents like these:

• An unsuspecting employee brings a virus onto the network while checking their web-based e-mail account.
• A manager downloads a virus in a document, accidentally erasing every Office document on a server
• An e-mail attachment launches the newest virus before the AV database has been updated.

These incidents happen even with other measures in place like firewalls and anti-virus software. That's why organizations employ SurfControl - to achieve a total filtering solution. SurfControl offers:

Integration with other safeguards
SurfControl ensures that e-mail is checked for other reasons (i.e., spam) as well as scanned by your anti-virus software.

Faster response to e-mail hazards
With SurfControl you can filter specific e-mails (for example, by subject line) known to contain viruses - even before anti-virus software is updated.

Better management of web-based threats
Keep employees away from hacker sites and other Web trouble spots so they never have the opportunity to download malicious code or viruses in the first place.

Limit to downloads of appropriate material
SurfControl can stop the downloading of executable files - from all sites, only recreational sites, by file-type, by user or by time of day.

Enhanced monitoring, reporting and management
SurfControl provides tools that let you enforce your Acceptable Use Policy - you can diagnose current activity, see who's visited the virus-infected Web sites and save hours tracking down infected systems.

While no set of security solutions can fix everything, content security threats - like viruses - represent a major risk class against which you can take effective countermeasures.

Viruses are in fact only one of many content security threats facing your organization. SurfControl solutions help you manage your total risk. They provide comprehensive, highly integrated feature sets in their own right plus close integration with industry leading anti-virus software and firewall solutions.

Get the Total Filtering Solution. Get SurfControl.

Recreational Surfing

Productivity loss is dangerous. Unlike an attack, this threat can rarely be isolated to a particular time or place. Most often, when the loss occurs, the productivity just seeps out of an organization quietly. And once gone, it can never be recovered.

Productivity loss is dangerous for another reason: It is pervasive. It can happen wherever and whenever people use computers. It undermines the performance of both people and equipment in a variety of ways. Losses result from:

• Personal e-mail
• Surfing sports, pornography, shopping, personal finance, and other non-work sites
• Chain letters, hoaxes and other e-mail “games”
• Unsolicited junk e-mail (spam)

These distractions take work time away from employees, reduce network bandwidth, and waste disk space. Worse, they are self-compounding. That's because people usually rely on other people to get work done - just as they rely on bandwidth and the availability of other network resources. When people are surfing sports sites or sending personal e-mail, it's not just their own performance that they are obstructing.

But what makes productivity loss the most dangerous is the huge cost. Just 20 minutes a day of personal surfing or e-mailing can cost a company with 100 employees over $8,000 per week. (That's at $50 per hour per employee.) And that's not factoring in compounding effects. Merely the time it takes to open spam e-mails can take a huge toll in human performance to say nothing of what spam does to the network.

Obviously, you can't just turn off the network. The only other option is to manage the content employees access on the network and when. For example, SurfControl lets you:

• Identify approved surfing locations by website, page, or category
• Attach bandwidth thresholds to certain categories of websites (or specific sites)
• Determine the types of files employees can download
• Check e-mails for the presence of certain subjects, senders and other identifiers
• Automatically send e-mails to employees who violate Web and e-mail policies
• Run reports that show the types of e-mail and Web activity actually taking place
• Put alerts and monitors in place to show activity in real time

But the power of SurfControl to protect you is greater than the sum of all these individual features. It's the power to mix, match, integrate, and easily manage features to provide exactly the right content security policy for you. With SurfControl's reporting and monitoring tools, you can view your organization's e-mail and Web usage patterns - and identify potential problem areas - so you can create the correct policy. Then with easy drag-and-drop rules administration, you can establish the content safeguards that exactly meet the needs of your organization - no more, no less.

While no set of security solutions can fix everything, content security threats - like productivity loss - represent a major risk class against which you can take effective countermeasures.

Loss productivity is in fact only one of many content security threats facing your organization. SurfControl solutions help you manage your total risk. They provide comprehensive, highly integrated feature sets in their own right plus close integration with industry leading anti-virus software and firewall solutions.

Get the Total Filtering Solution. Get SurfControl.