EIM - Employee Internet Management Premium Groups
Enhanced Web Content Filters

Premium Groups™
In addition to the main software we offer Premium Groups to enhance our  Internet / web content filtering software and a higher level of protection from Web-based threats. These Premium Groups (PG) allow you to set and enforce Internet use policies with respect to emerging threats, such as bandwidth-intensive streaming media, malicious mobile code (MMC), phishing sites, and spyware, that pose productivity, resource, and security risks to your organization.

Enhance productivity with the Productivity PG™

This package enables organizations to improve employee productivity by managing Web site categories considered to be non-business related and especially time-consuming.

Productivity PG helps manage employee Internet access to the following categories:
Advertisements
Message boards & clubs
Freeware / software downloads
Online brokerage & trading
Instant messaging
Pay-to-surf

Manage network bandwidth with the Bandwidth PG™

Powerful Bandwidth Management Tool - Bandwidth is a limited resource in any network. Such Internet activities as accessing streaming media sites, loading personal files or photos to Internet storage sites, or downloading copyrighted music and video consume bandwidth needed for business-critical applications and potentially pose legal liability and confidentiality issues as well. 

Bandwidth PG helps manage employee Internet access to the following categories:
Streaming media
Internet radio & TV
Personal network storage/back-up
Internet telephony
Peer-to-peer file sharing

Block access to spyware, phishing sites and Malicious Mobile Code with Security PG™
Add an additional layer of security to your network by preventing employees from unknowingly accessing phishing sites, sites that are infected with MMC, and sites that distribute spyware. Should spyware already reside on your corporate desktops, Security PG stops the transmission of sensitive information to host spyware servers.

Malicious mobile code is software designed to move from computer to computer and network to network and intentionally cause harm or modify computer systems. MMC may reside on seemingly innocent sites that employees visit to shop or plan travel, and its presence is often undetected. MMC can be delivered via Webborne viruses, Trojan horses, worms, script attacks, and rogue Internet code, such as the Nimda worm.

Using proprietary Web site mining techniques, our EIM Software scans its URL database of millions of sites for malicious code, including ActiveX controls, Visual Basic script, JavaScript, and Java Applets. Then, using sophisticated algorithms, it categorizes those sites infected with MMC and blocks employee access to them.

Site Watcher™ is a value-added service included with Security PG that alerts you if your company Web site has been infected with MMC. This allows you to take immediate measures to prevent the spread of MMC to customers, prospects, and partners visiting your Web site.

Spyware is software installed on a computer, without the user's knowledge, that gathers information and relays it to advertisers or other interested parties. Spyware can collect and transmit information such as keystrokes, Web surfing habits, passwords, email addresses, and more. Spyware wastes system resources and bandwidth as it tracks and transmits information. More seriously, spyware can also pose grave security, confidentiality, and compliance risks.

Security PG stops spyware first by blocking access to sites that distribute spyware, then by preventing the transmission of employee and network information to host sites. Through proprietary processes and the Web Catcher™ feature – by which uncategorized Web sites from customers are sent back to us for review– we are able to identify spyware servers and block backchannel communications via port 80 connections.

Phishing and other fraud sites counterfeit legitimate business sites for the purpose of eliciting financial or other private information from users. Security PG helps address phishing by identifying URLs and blocking employee access to those sites.

Security PG helps manage employee access to the following categories:
Spyware
Malicious Web sites
Phishing and other frauds

How Premium Groups work with the main software

The Premium Groups family of products can be seamlessly added. Once installed, Premium Groups enable additional categories in Manager and supplement the Enterprise Master Database. Companies can set policies with Premium Groups categories, report on them and set appropriate bandwidth usage limits, by developing policies to address specific users or groups.

How will Premium Groups help you?
Mitigate security, productivity and bandwidth issues for your organization, specifically:
Block distracting banner advertisements.
Increase productivity by managing access to unauthorized instant messaging Web sites.
Eliminate legal risks and limit bandwidth drains by managing access to peer-to-peer file sharing sites.
Block spyware transmissions to their host sites, preventing the outflow of sensitive data.
Proactively minimize the risk of malicious mobile code attacks in the workplace, including Web-borne viruses, Trojan horses, worms, script attacks and rogue Internet code.