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Blue Coat WebFilter

Blue Coat WebFilter is an industry-leading enterprise and service provider URL filtering database and hosted service made relevant and accurate by a world-wide WebPulse ecosystem with over 100M user requests per day for new ratings. By analyzing web site content, forms, links, originating URLs and web reputation scores, WebFilter provides comprehensive coverage of spyware, malware, MMC, viruses, trojans, botnets, phishing and other forms of malware and fraud, as well as offensive and non-productive web activity. WebFilter, in conjunction with ProxySG and ProxyAV, provides the most complete defense against Web 2.0 threats.

WebFilter on ProxySG provides:

• Fast, efficient on-proxy URL database with cross-categorization for blended policy rules based on 100s of possible ProxySG variables including user, location, protocol, time of day, and content-type
  
  
• Industry-leading technology for comprehensive coverage of offensive (pornography) sites and real-time threats (phishing, proxy avoidance)
  
  
• Over 70 URL categories in over 50 languages
  
  
• WebPulse ecosystem of over 100M user requests per day drives relevance and accuracy
  
  
• Real-time rating service for new or unrated web content often exposed by search engines
  
  
• Dynamic rating of content within translation sites, search engine caches and image searches
  
  
• Web reputation rating for suspicious sites
  
  
• Support for regional URL lists & custom URL database or categories
  
  
• Allow/deny lists, plus custom overrides & exceptions
  
  
• Search engine safe search enforcement
  
  
• Advise and coach users with custom pages
  
  
• Comprehensive reporting of user behavior, security threats and bandwidth usage

WebFilter is the only URL filtering solution with a real-time rating service for new or unrated web content with dynamic detection of objectionable content, phishing sites, proxy avoidance and malicious threats. WebFilter provides updates several times per day, plus each user request dynamically updates the WebPulse ecosystem for all customers. WebFilter has a one-day resolution policy on ratings and all features are included at one price.

Blue Coat Site Review is an online tool that enables Blue Coat WebFilter administrators and end users to verify if a site is included in the Blue Coat WebFilter database and suggest alternative categorizations for the URLs in question.