Web Content Filtering
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Overview

The Barracuda Web Filter is an integrated content filtering, application blocking, and spyware protection solution that is powerful, easy to use, and affordable for businesses of all sizes. It enforces Internet usage policy by blocking access to Web sites and Internet applications that are not related to business, and it easily and completely eliminates spyware and other forms of malware from your organization. No more productivity loss trying to repair computers or make computers usable again.

Designed for the enterprise, the Barracuda Web Filter enables you to set up custom policies for particular user and groups across customizable time ranges. The Barracuda Web Filter integrates with popular LDAP directory servers, such as Microsoft Active Directory, for both authentication and group membership information on which to apply custom policies. Sample uses of group policies include:

• Restricting access to job board Web sites
  to only the Human Resources group
• Defining separate policies for teachers
  and students at a school
• Enabling compliance officers unrestricted
  access to the Web for investigation
• Providing external instant messaging (e.g., AIM) access only to specific users or groups
• Restricting personal Web browsing to non-working hours

For organizations that do not utilize directory servers, policies can be defined for unauthenticated users as a whole, locally defined users and groups, or network IP address ranges.

Easy to Use
With no client software to install and no modifications required to your network, the Barracuda Web Filter is easy to deploy. It has an intuitive user interface for maintenance and monitoring, making it a virtually maintenance-free solution. Even system updates are made automatically by Barracuda Central, an advanced 24/7 security operations center where engineers work continuously to catalog sites used in personal Web browsing and to provide the most effective methods to combat the ever changing spyware variants. Updates are performed hourly so that your Barracuda Web Filter can provide ongoing enforcement of your Internet usage policy and protection of your network.

Affordable
Large and small organizations alike demand solutions that are affordable not just today, but also in the future as they grow. With no per user license fee, the Barracuda Web Filter is the most affordable content filtering, application blocking, and anti-spyware solution available.

• Blocks access to Web sites based on domain, URL pattern, or content category
• Blocks downloads based on file type
• Blocks applications that access the Internet, including IM, music services, and software update utilities
• Integrates with "safe search" filters built into popular images search engines
• Provides integrated gateway and desktop spyware protection

          Powerful, Enterprise-
          Class Solution
          The Barracuda Web Filter
          combines preventative,
          reactive, and proactive
          measures to form a complete           Web filtering solution.
          
          The Barracuda Web Filter:

• Blocks access to Web sites based on domain, URL pattern, or content category
• Blocks downloads based on file type
• Blocks applications that access the Internet, including IM, music services, and software updaters
• Integrates with "safe search" filters built into popular image search engines
• Provides integrated gateway and desktop spyware protection