Have you noticed a spike in your company's Internet usage recently with employees shopping online for Christmas bargains? This represents a threat to your company, not just in lost productivity but in web viruses.

According to Symantec, the number of malicious code samples (viruses, bots, Trojans, worms) has almost doubled in the last six months.

"This particularly, even outside of the festive season, is an enormous increase over previous trends, and represents the most substantial growth ever seen before in any six month period," Pregnell, Senior Manager at Symantec's Technical Product Management said. Attackers will take advantage of any means at their disposal over the Christmas season of increased online activity.

"Shoppers read email, they browse for products, they buy and pay for products, they converse with friends to say 'Merry Xmas' using IM, they send virtual Christmas cards, share Christmas photos etc," Pregnell said. Increasing numbers of web sites and internet applications are hosts to spyware, viruses, and other internet threats

Control and protect your company's online activity with our managed web filtering service, WebGuard.

WebGuard 2.0 eliminates web browsing abuse, offensive or pornographic browsing and time wasting.

Reporting:
WebGuard produces easy to read, automatically generated daily and weekly reports as well as managing and logging people’s access to the Internet using content filtering rules and lists of sites to be allowed or blocked. Email or SMS alerts can also be set up to notify administrators immediately of excessive or inappropriate use. It also delivers usage reports to a highly granular level (identified to the user and time spent browsing) where more detailed reports provide data on subcategories such as an organisational groups or divisions as well as an aggregated total.

Granular Management:
The service is managed through a secure web console and according to policies that you set up. We do recommend that the first few weeks be spent in monitoring mode and observing patterns before you start controlling access & implementing rule sets. Set access to the web by times, file types, key words, and sites by individual, group or company wide rules. Authenticate via username & password built into WebGuard.

Simple Setup:
There is no downtime, no disruption at any stage, with the filtering service running almost instantly. It is practically zero client footprint installation as all you need to do is to change proxy settings in your Internet browser.

Control Internet browsing and increase business productivity:
The rise of ‘underground intranets’ in the workplace (through social networking sites such as Facebook and MySpace) is costing Australian employers millions of dollars yearly, as well as opening company networks to malicious attacks. Research tells us that if just one employee spends one hour of company time on Facebook daily, it potentially costs an employer over $6,200 per year

Cost-effective:
WebGuard does not require a large initial investment with service fees paid on a monthly/quarterly basis, RRP is $5.50 inc GST per user per month with a $199 inc GST setup fee, however, pricing goes down as the number of users go up. Email us for a quote

Virus Protection :
All downloaded files (including webmail) are automatically checked by anti-virus software updated every 10 minutes.

Compliance
Protection against offensive web site access in the work place.

Redundant Service
WebGuard 2.0 operates on distributed infrastructure across multiple states and key ISPs, so you can be sure the service will be always up.

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