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BrowseControl
Denying Employee and Student Web Surfing and Blocking Application Use |
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| BrowseControl Benefits |
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- Allow Internet usage to specified times of day and block all other times
- Block or allow access to specific sites
- Have instant Control of Internet activity
- Block any 32bit Application that you do not wish your users to run.
- Eliminate non-productive surfing computer activity in businesses and academic environments
- Reduce strain on network bandwidth resources
- Reduce legal liability
- Control, Limit, Block access to E-mail, FTP sites & ICQ/IRC/Newsgroups
- Enhance employee productivity by restricting surfing to work related sites
- Lock PCs Screen, Keyboard and Mouse to grab the users attention or stop any inappropriate activity
- Disable CD/DVD and Floppy Drives to prevent fraud or unknown data entering your environment.
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| Easy to Manage |
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| BrowseControl reduces the burden on I.T. Technical staff since all the features can be locally managed by departmental managers or teachers who can enable/ disable internet access at departmental, classroom or individual PC level. |
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| User Based BrowseControl |
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| BrowseControl is now able to function in two modes, Computer Based and User Based. User mode allows control over each user on the network. All the functionalities and settings that are available for the Computer based mode are also applicable in the user based mode. |
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| Internet Access Control Options |
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- Totally block internet access
- Schedule specific time slots during the day Week or month when internet access is allowed. This can also be done on a per PC or Group level with different allowed access times depending on your needs.
- Timer Facility i.e. allow internet ON for a certain number of minutes
- Create a table of “Whitelist” Sites which users are allowed access to (e.g. Intranet, Project specific sites, course specific sites)
- Create a table of "Blacklist" sites which users are not able to access
- Choose to restrict any combination of WWW, E-mail, IP Addresses, FTP sites or ICQ/IRC/Newsgroups
- Port Filtering options can be modified to block unwanted downloads of files over the internet, avoid filtering of images or allow blocking of ports only during the Internet OFF mode.
- There are more options available for notifying users when an unauthorized url page has been accessed. The options include displaying a message on a pop-up window, redirecting the user to a specified home page or presenting a message within a browser window. New!
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| Additional Features |
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| Blocking Protocols |
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Browse Control can block any number of the following protocols and you can even specify any additional ports you require:
- HTTP
- FTP
- TELNET
- SMTP
- POP3
- SOCKS
- NEWS
- ICQ
- IRC
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| BrowseControl Components |
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| Browse Control has two components: |
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| Server Component (Console) : This component includes a Management Console that allows the Administrator to control internet access to Client PCs. This console can be installed on any Windows PC (server or workstation). |
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| A password can be set on the Browse Control Server so that you will be prompted for your Password when trying to run the Console. This will secure the server from being used by any unauthorised user. |
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| Client Component - to be installed on all PCs that need to be managed by the Browse Control Server. |
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| The client is password protected and can also be hidden for extra security. Installation is very easy, it can be installed manually on each PC or by login script . The client runs transparently on the PC. |
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| System Requirements |
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| Server Component |
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Minimum Hardware Requirements: IBM-PC Compatible with 32 Mb RAM
Software Requirements: Windows 2000 sp4 Professional or Server, Windows XP, Vista
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| Client Component |
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Minimum Hardware Requirements: IBM-PC Compatible with a 133MHz and 16 Mb RAM .
Software Requirements: Windows 2000 sp4 Professional/server, Windows XP, Vista
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