SonicWALL CFS Premium Business Edition for PRO 2040 / PRO 3060 / PRO 4060 FirewallsItem#: S216-5652  |  Model#: 01-SSC-5652  | 

SonicWALL Content Filtering Subscription Service
SonicWALL 's Content Filtering Subscription Service helps organizations increase productivity and reduce legal and privacy risks by automatically enforcing acceptable use policies while minimizing administration overhead. Integrated with SonicWALL's line of Internet security appliances, the SonicWALL Content Filtering subscription enables organizations such as businesses, schools and libraries to maintain Internet access policies tailored to their specific needs.

With SonicWALL Content Filtering, network administrators have a flexible tool to provide comprehensive filtering based on keywords, time of day, trusted and forbidden domain designations, and file types such as Cookies, Java™ and ActiveX® for privacy. The SonicWALL Content Filtering Subscription Service automatically updates the filters, making maintenance substantially simpler and less time consuming.

SonicWALL Content Filtering can be customized to add or remove specific URLs from the blocked list and to block specific keywords. When a user attempts to access a site that is blocked by the SonicWALL, a customized message is displayed on the user's screen. SonicWALL Internet security appliances can also be configured to log attempts to access sites on the SonicWALL Content Filter List, on a custom list, and on a keyword list to monitor Internet usage before putting new usage restrictions in place.

Content Filter List Subscription.
SonicWALL's Content Filter List, available by subscription, automatically updates content filters weekly with new and relocated sites, extending your protection and reducing administrative costs.

URL Filtering with Trusted and Forbidden Domains.
Network administrators can specify domains or hosts (e.g., "yahoo.com") to which access can be allowed ("Trusted") or denied ("Forbidden"). This feature can be used to customize the Content Filter List or to allow Web access to sites on a custom list. With careful screening, this can be close to 100% effective at blocking objectionable material.

Keyword Blocking.
SonicWALL Internet security appliances can optionally scan both the filename field and host field for specific keywords, and block any requests that contain them.

Java, ActiveX and Cookie Blocking.
Java and Active X are often used for hacker attacks. "Cookies," which direct a remote Web browser to save small amounts of data on its local hard disk, can be used to store preference information, and track Web usage history. For this reason, they can cause some privacy concerns. SonicWALL Internet security appliances can be configured to block Java and ActiveX scripts, as well as Cookies.

Block by Time of Day.
SonicWALL Internet security appliances allow the network administrator to make filtering active during certain times of day. When Time of Day filtering is activated, all filtering functions (filter list, cookies blocking, keyword blocking, etc.) will be on or off during specified times.