MIMEsweeper™ for Web - URL Filter
MIMEsweeper for Web provides the best content analysis available for all traffic going through the HTTP gateway. By adding our powerful ,world leading URL Filter to the MIMEsweeper content analysis engine you effectively have the most effective protection against all web threats, known and unknown. From gambling to adult and sexually explicit content, the Clearswift URL database covers every conceivable subject matter that could be of harm to your business.
The 40 root categories are:
- Adult/sexually explicit
- Advertisements
- Arts & Entertainment
- Business & Economy
- Chat
- Computing & Internet
- Criminal Skills
- Drugs, Alcohol & Tobacco
- Education
- Finance & Investment
- Food & Drink
- Gambling
- Games
- Glamour & Intimate Apparel
- Government & Politics
- Hacking
- Hate
- Health & Medicine
- Hobbies & Recreation
- Hosting Sites
- Job Search & Career Development
- Lifestyle & Culture
- Motor Vehicles
- News
- Personals and dating
- Personal websites
- Real estate
- Reference
- Religion
- Remote Proxies
- Sex education
- Search engines
- Shopping
- Sports
- Streaming media
- Travel
- Usenet News/Forums
- Violence/Offensive
- Weapons
- Web-based email
Submit a Site
To see how a site is classified, test the URL on our online database facility, available here. It enables you to see how sites are classified and submit your website to the database if it's unknown.
How it works
The URL content filter is available as an optional plug-in to our MIMEsweeper for Web solution enabling you to block web access to any of the website categories above or those you decide to add to your blacklist within your security policy. When a web page is requested, MIMEsweeper identifies the user and their web access privileges. The requested URL is then checked against the blacklists for that user. If the site is blacklisted, the web page transfer is blocked. And, if you prefer, the user is notified and an administrator alerted. All activity, whether blocked or allowed, is also recorded for in-depth reporting to analyze web usage and traffic patterns. This data is also available for user reporting, providing your HR department all the information they need in case of misuse.
Key Features
- Comprehensive - The Clearswift URL database is the most comprehensive on the market, with well over 2 billion web pages and 17 million URLs classified in its database
- Policy-friendly - Provides 40 comprehensive site categories allowing your Internet Usage Policy to be easily and accurately enforced
- Global - The URL database covers sites across the globe and in more than 50 languages
- Updated daily - Thousands of new website URLs are added each day. Redundant and out-of-date URLs are also removed.
- Flexible - Set web access duration times, or file size thresholds; time-sensitive filtering also allows out-of-hours, or lunchtime surfing; customized any way your Internet Usage Policy dictates