Surfwall -Enterprise Manager.   download fully functional 30-day evaluation now   How much time and resources are wasted by your staff visiting undesirable or inappropriate websites during office hours?     The risks and losses involved with the misuse of internet access by employees are substantial to the employer.  They could be legally liable for explicit material being downloaded onto corporate machines using corporate resources in company time.  The loss of productivity from staff surfing sites not related to business during office hours is a bill that the company should not have to pickup.  Also legitimate services can be adversely affected by unproductive employees accessing high bandwidth sites, such as streaming media, MP3, or file sharing sites. Each company that has adopted a form of web filtering have seen the benefits of greater productivity and increased network efficiency.   As the possibilities of what anyone with internet access can view are endless then an acceptable usage policy should be created for all staff with web connectivity.  Employee internet usage policies provide improved productivity ratings; corporate protection from legal liability; prevents embarrassment to the company; preserves bandwidth; increases a feeling of ethical integrity and does not rely on personal accountability.  But how do you implement these policies in a realistic and comprehensive way?   Surfwall is a solution to the problem of recreational internet usage by employees, providing 99.99% categorisation accuracy allowing policy definition to be upheld.  By relying on human interaction to ensure that the matches between content and categorisation are accurate, Surfwall gives you the peace of mind that non-work related surfing is completely controlled by the acceptable usage policy. The danger of allowing unrestricted access to the internet by employees ranges from legal implications of allowing pornographic or adult material to be viewed and cached onto the disk of a work computer, the loss of productivity from other non-work related activities such as gambling and games, losing key staff by allowing recruitment sites to be visited, as well as reduced company bandwidth for legitimate activities by allowing streaming media such as MP3 sites to be visited from work.     How does Surfwall work? Surfwall is incorporated into Omniquad's Enterprise Manager system, which is a complete network managing and monitoring solution.  Enterprise Manager is loaded on an assigned server (NT, WIN2000) and will then search for available computers in a network finding which users are on each machine.  With an easy to use interface you can group these computers into easily manageable sub-sections and then activate a download of the Enterprise Manager client on to each desktop from one location.  The network can then be centrally managed. As a website is requested from the browser, the central server queries a network database or an online catalogue and receives a category number.  If that web page has a category that is forbidden for that user, group or site then the browser displays a restricted usage policy page.  Surfwall policies can be adjusted and changed at anytime. When laptops are connected to the network they update policies on to their desktop client.  The policies are still enforced even when they are not connected to the network. Categorisation There are 60+ carefully selected categories. As many websites fall into several web categories Webwall offers very accurate results by using more than one category where needed. Some of the most common restrictions block adult content, MP3, gambling sites, shopping, web cast/streaming media sites and recruitment sites. New sites are added to a series of online databases 24 hours a day with our trained research team adding sites every minute of every day.  Web sites change constantly and evolve throughout time; As such our researchers continually update categories and databases as websites change. For our larger customers or depending on your network setup you may have a database hosted locally. This database is updated every night to keep your internet usage at its most efficient.  Updates to local databases are at a predetermined time. Only deletions, alterations and new categorisations are added and amended. Databases learn your web usage patterns offering faster filtering and better efficiency. Enterprise manager allows you total configuration. You can block single or multiple sites on a user, user groups, or entire network basis.   Surfwall Categorisation:   Adult / Pornography Gay and Lesbian Issues Nudity Partial Nudity Sex Education   Alcohol Drugs Lifestyle Tobacco Self Help   Cults Occult Religion Extremism Malicious Contents Hate   Weapons Illegal Activities     Games Cheating       Entertainment Events TV Radio             Gambling Sports    Health High Bandwidth, MP3 Webcasting. Humour   Culture Dating Personal pages Personal email Domestic Issues Chat   Auctions Brokerage Shopping Advertisements     Instant Messaging Internet telephone Pay-to-surf Search Engines             Computers Anonymizers Science and Technology Hacking Software downloads   Travel Vehicles Education Employment   News Politics Finance History   Under Construction Unregistered   Surfwall database Surfwall categorisation is 99.99% accurate. We use a combination of evaluation tools and/or human interaction to categorise each site.  With over 60 categories you have complete control and configuration of usage within your network. Compatibility Enterprise manager with Surfwall works on NT and win2000 servers, with any desktop running a windows system and Microsoft Internet Explorer.  Surfwall will work with all proxy and firewall solutions. Check (Via email) whether Surfwall will work with your system Enterprise Manager Surfwall is embedded in Omniquad Enterprise Manager. Enterprise Manager enables easy configuration of all Surfwall settings. Configure policies for individual users, groups or network wide. Enterprise Manager with Surfwall helps your organisation to: Block and prevent misuse on the internet. Allow internet usage to be productive. Prevent the displaying of offensive material. Design and implement acceptable usage policies for each user, group or site. Take advantage of network tools streamlining your support/helpdesk. Enterprise Manager includes extra features to Surfwall.  These features increase productivity of the administrator allowing central management of Surfwall, Desktop Surveillance, and Network genie. Enterprise Manager Network features are:      ü        Inventory control – Takes complete audit of the network. It catalogues all Software and hardware specifications on every machine. You have a comprehensive database of the entire network allowing improvements and developments to be planned.     ü        Remote Control – Allows administrator to take control of any machine on the network. You can auto-logon and configure machine without leaving enterprise manager.   ü        Remote Surveillance – Allows remote monitoring of any workstation.   ü        Remote Reboot – System reboot from the enterprise manager.   ü        Remote Shut down – Shuts down workstation from Enterprise manager.   ü        Remote Open – Allows remote running of scripts and installation of applications from enterprise manager.   ü        NetSend and Remote locking of a workstation.     Surfwall FAQ's     frequently asked questions   Do you charge for premium for high bandwidth sites?   We do not charge extra for productivity saving categories such as instant messenger sites streaming, and online brokerage sites. Sites using high and a large amount of bandwidth are available without extra charge. A web content filter would not be complete without them.   Will my laptop users be protected by Surfwall screening?   Yes. Laptops will have the policies set on them using Surfwall. When they are not connected to the network they will still obey the last policy settings. As soon as they are reconnected to the network, laptops will automatically download the latest policies.   What are the advantages of Surfwall over its competitors?   You get the same features as competing products. With Surfwall included in Enterprise manager, you will have these extra time saving tools to help the network administration.   How does Surfwall save me bandwidth?   Firstly, it can block high bandwidth sites such as MP3, file sharing and streaming media sites.  These sites can take up a large amount of bandwidth and can make other priority services suffer.  Secondly, the website is not cached on the proxy server or other web server. Only the URL is checked. This saves downloading a file before it is checked.   Does Surfwall slow down web browsing?   No. As soon as the user requests a site it is checked and the web page is downloaded via the proxy or other web server device.       TOP Omniquad Web Services. ©2002

70% of all Internet porn traffic occurs during the 9-to-5 workday. (SexTracker)       51% of time spent online among Internal Revenue Service employees was on activities such as personal e-mail, online chats, shopping and checking personal finances and stocks.  (Reported by the Chicago Tribune.)     41% of workers in the UK, France, Italy,and Germany say they have used the Internet at work for personal reasons for over three hours a week. (Taylor Nelson Softres)                 Any Web page that is not catogrised locally is checked against the online Database. If it isn't listed then it will be catagorised by our research team.                   "Surfwall database holds information for over 1/2 million sites..."                                     Researchers are catorgorising 24/7/365.                 Some features from enterprise manager come free with Surfwall