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Built-in Internet Content Filtering equips SonicWALL Internet security appliances to monitor usage and control access to unproductive and objectionable Web content according to established Acceptable Use Policies. 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.

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SonicWALL Content Filtering Overview

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.

Key Features:

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.

Filtering Categories

Violence/Profanity (graphics or text)
Pictures or text exposing extreme cruelty, or physical or emotional acts against any animal or person which are primarily intended to hurt or inflict pain. Obscene words, phrases, and profanity is defined as text that uses, but is not limited to, George Carlin's 7 censored words more often than once every 50 messages (Newsgroups) or once a page (Web sites).
Partial Nudity
Pictures exposing the female breast or full exposure of either male or female buttocks except when exposing genitalia. (Excludes all swimsuits, including thongs.)
Full Nudity
Pictures exposing any or all portions of the human genitalia. Excluded from the Partial Nudity and Full Nudity categories are sites containing nudity or partial nudity of a wholesome nature. For example: Web sites containing publications such as National Geographic or Smithsonian Magazine. Or sites hosted by museums such as the Guggenheim, the Louvre, or the Museum of Modern Art.
Sexual Acts (graphics or text)
Pictures or text exposing anyone or anything involved in explicit sexual acts and or lewd and lascivious behavior, including masturbation, copulation, pedophilia, and intimacy involving nude or partially nude people in heterosexual, bisexual, lesbian or homosexual encounters. Also includes phone sex ads, dating services, and adult personals, CD-ROM's, and videos.
Gross Depictions (graphics or text)
Pictures or descriptive text of anyone or anything which are crudely vulgar or grossly deficient in civility or behavior, or which show scatological impropriety. Includes such depictions as maiming, bloody figures, or indecent depiction of bodily functions.
Intolerance (graphics or text)
Pictures or text advocating prejudice or discrimination against any race, color, national origin, religion, disability or handicap, gender, or sexual orientation. Any picture or text that elevates one group over another. Also includes intolerant jokes or slurs.
Satanic/Cult (graphics or text)
Pictures or text advocating devil worship, an affinity for evil or wickedness, or the advocacy to join a cult. A cult is defined as: A closed society that is headed by a single individual where loyalty is demanded and leaving is punishable.
Drugs/Drug Culture (graphics or text)
Pictures or text advocating the illegal use of drugs for entertainment. Includes substances used for other than their primary purpose to alter the individual's state of mind, such as glue sniffing. This would exclude currently illegal drugs legally prescribed for medicinal purposes (e.g., drugs used to treat glaucoma or cancer).
Militant/Extremist (graphics or text)
Pictures or text advocating extremely aggressive and combative behaviors, or advocacy of unlawful political measures. Topics include groups that advocate violence as a means to achieve their goals. Includes "how to" information on weapons making, ammunition making, or the making or use of pyrotechnics materials. Also includes the use of weapons for unlawful reasons.
Sex Education (graphics or text)
Pictures or text advocating the proper use of contraceptives. This topic would include condom use, the correct way to wear a condom and how to put a condom in place. Also included are sites relating to discussion about the use of the Pill, IUD's, and other types of contraceptives. In addition to the above, this category will include discussion sites on discussing diseases with a partner, pregnancy, and respecting boundaries. Excluded from this category are commercial sites wishing to sell sexual paraphernalia.
Questionable/Illegal Gambling (graphics or text)
Pictures or text advocating materials or activities of a dubious nature which may be illegal in any or all jurisdictions, such as illegal business schemes, chain letters, copyright infringement, computer hacking, phreaking (using someone's phone lines without permission), and software piracy. Also includes text advocating gambling relating to lotteries, casinos, betting, numbers games, on-line sports, or financial betting, including non-monetary dares.
Alcohol & Tobacco (graphics or text)
Pictures or text advocating the sale, consumption, or production of alcoholic beverages and tobacco products.