which content filter is the best?

Feb 01, 2005 0 Replies

I'm not entirely sure where to put this message, like in what newsgroup, so because firewall appliances and some routers usually come with a content filter provided by one of these 3 companies, I'm interested to know which one you all prefer or which one you think is better.



I'm interested in what your opinions are for Websense, Cerberian/now blue coat and then N2H2. My reason for these 3 is that I belive they are the most widely used, and surfcontrol. I am getting this week on Thursday a Sonicwall TZ150 and have the option of Websense, Cerberian or N2H2 for the content filtering.



I've had experience with Cerberian over the last year, but none with N2H2 and Websense. I currently have a Belkin 802.11g wireless that uses Cerberian and I've found it blocks more pages better then using Cyberpatrol software which uses surfcontrol for the web filtering.



I'm just wondering what people think of N2H2, Websense and Cerberian. One thing I'm wanting to know is that I've read at

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that there's newsgroup blocking for the sonicwall devices like if you enter in sex as a keyword then many alt.sex groups would be blocked from nntp. However I'm not sure if that's true in the current sonicwall devices and stuff.



I'm interested if anyone has any experience with N2H2 and Websense to see how good the filtering is and if they can block nntp newsgroups by keywords or something.



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