WEB CONTENT FILTERING
(S-Scan)
Network Box’s Web Content Filtering engine, S-Scan, is designed to help organizations block users from accessing undesirable web content. With a detection rate of 98.7%* it offers excellent performance in terms of speed, coverage and web accuracy.
S-Scan uses high performance signature based technology, rather than a simple URL database, to identify web content more efficiently and effectively. Thus certain categories of new undesirable websites, can be identified almost immediately and in real-time, without the need to update a URL database.
S-Scan uses 57 productivity categories to identify and classify web content:
Uncategorized |
Adult/Sexually Explicit |
Advertisements & Popups |
Alcohol & Tobacco |
Arts |
Blogs & Forums |
Business |
Chat |
Computing & Internet |
Criminal Activity |
Downloads |
Education |
Entertainment |
Fashion & Beauty |
Finance & Investment |
Food & Dining |
Gambling |
Games |
Government |
Hacking |
Health & Medicine |
Hobbies & Recreation |
Hosting Sites |
Illegal Drugs |
Infrastructure |
Intimate Apparel & Swimwear |
Intolerance & Hate |
Jobs Search & Career Development |
Kids Sites |
Motor Vehicles |
News |
Peer-to-Peer |
Personal & Dating |
Philanthropic & Professional Orgs. |
Phishing & Fraud |
Photo Searches |
Politics |
Proxies & Translators |
Real Estate |
Reference |
Religion |
Ringtones/Mobile Phone Downloads |
Search Engines |
Sex Education |
Shopping |
Society & Culture |
Spam URLs |
Sports |
Spyware |
Streaming Media |
Suspicious URL |
Tasteless & Offensive |
Travel |
Violence |
Virus/Malware Infected |
Weapons |
Web-based email |
However, the ultimate settings is entirely under your control. With S-Scan, it is also possible for you to:
Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) and Microsoft Active Directory (AD) support is included for authentication purposes, allowing users to be identified by login name if required.
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S-Scan Comparison Table
Below is a comparison of the S-Scan engine, and the WebSense SurfControl engine, over two empirical data sets: Alexa100k- the Top 100,000 websites, visited by global Internet users; and NBCustDom- the list of specific domains owned by Network Box customers.
Data Set |
number of URLs |
S-Scan |
WebSense SurfControl |
Alexa 100k |
100,000 |
98.7% |
73.9% |
NBCustDom |
270 |
93.0% |
8.5% |
Web Content Filtering
Implementation and Support
The Network Box Security Operations Centre (SOC) engineers are on-hand to help you setup your content filtering requirements to meet your organizational policies. Once the these are in place, the SOC engineers provide additional support to enforce your rules and policies. The diagrams below illustrates their role for three different scenarios:
Scenario 1:
Normal Website
Scenario 2:
False Positive Website
Scenario 3:
Undesirable Website
Key Features
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15 Engines 7,7 million+ Signatures* |
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Uses high performance signature-based technology. |
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Real-Time identification and classification of web content. |
*For more information and real-time statistics: