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Re: URL/Content Filtering Recomendations
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Andy Voelker)
Fri Feb 11 14:50:55 2011
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Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2011 14:48:50 -0500
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I'll second what Stephen said (he is on the Networking side of things at WCU and I am on the client side of things). Our malware incidents dramatically dropped both on the faculty and staff side of things. We also have the option of deploying a proxy client to client machines that go or live off campus, which replicates the same rules.
Ryan, we did a pilot of the Barracuda solution also. We had two of their biggest boxes (the 910) and our network just hammered them. Usually it just slowed down the network because it exceeded the maximum http requests, but at one point they crashed and took down our network for an hour and a half. They were a whole lot cheaper than Blue Coat, but it obviously didn't suit our needs. They had a 1010 box on their site, but it didn't seem ready for deployment at that time.
On a shameless-self-promotion note, I intend to submit a proposal for a ResNet presentation on this very subject. If you are interested in seeing just how dramatic a drop in malware incidents we took, you'll have to wait to see if I will present it this summer at Yale (or just hit me up off list... I'm not that big of a jerk.)
-- Andy Voelker
Manager of Student Computing in the Technology Commons
Western Carolina University
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From: Resnet Forum [mailto:RESNET-L@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Ryan Dorman
Sent: Thursday, February 10, 2011 4:00 PM
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In the "don't go there product" I would just highly recommend against the Barracuda product. I had a disastrous implementation that we ended up having to back out.
Back when I ran a Fortigate appliance we used the URL/Content filter add-on and it was pretty decent.
Ryan Dorman
Manager, TSG Engineering
Blackboard Inc.
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From: Resnet Forum [mailto:RESNET-L@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Butler, Kevin D
Sent: Thursday, February 10, 2011 1:15 AM
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Randall,
Our campus also uses the Palo-Alto platform for our perimeter firewall. It has been a night and day difference versus the old Checkpoint NGX deployment we formerly had. May I contact you off listserv and pick your brain regarding your experiences with the PA's content/URL filtering capabilities in conjunction with its abilities to block peer-to-peer traffic? We are about to enable our 30-day trial with it, and it would be nice to speak with someone who has been down that road already. Thanks.
Kevin D. Butler (ButlerKevinD@UAMS.Edu)
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From: Resnet Forum [mailto:RESNET-L@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Randall C Grimshaw
Sent: Tuesday, February 08, 2011 4:27 AM
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At the University we use Palo-Alto to limit peer to peer. At home I use OpenDNS paid service enforced by the gargoyle router.
Randall Grimshaw rgrimsha@syr.edu
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From: Resnet Forum [RESNET-L@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Whitlow, Michael [mwhitlow@BUMAIL.BRADLEY.EDU]
Sent: Monday, February 07, 2011 10:48 AM
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Subject: URL/Content Filtering Recomendations
A couple departments on campus have specifically asked for use to provide them with a content/URL filtering solution for select systems. That last time I had experience with content filtering was with N2H2 6-7 years ago.
I was wondering what the good tried and tested products are now for doing this?
Thanks much!
Mike Whitlow - Bradley University
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