Internet Monitoring

[lpadmin]

Hello Everyone

I have been tasked with researching software that can monitor and report on users internet usage. This would need to be able to do filtering and give reports on their usage. I have come across Work Examiner and Spector 360 that look pretty good. I am wondering if any one here is using this kind of product and what you would recommend.

Thanks

[obi-k]

Lightspeed and iBoss are popular.

[jduvalmtb]

We use iPrism from EdgeWave. It's... OK.

[CasperSally]

@jduvalmtb my deepest sympathies. I wouldn't wish EdgeWave on my worst enemy. We suffered through a year with them before they asked us to find a new web filter because they couldn't support our Macs.

[damienbarrett]

Our firewalls are from Untangle, a quasi-open-source product that runs on a customized Linux OS. They've built an application stack on top of the OS that provides web filtering (via zvelo.com), link aggregation, load-balancing, application and protocol blocking, logging, and more. We had to make sure that all our equipment uses DHCP reservations so that we could assign DNS names to each machine, but then the logs fill up with all the traffic identified by computer DNS name.

[jduvalmtb]

@CasperSally Hahaha. I hear ya. It was in place when I started here. The thing that drives me is diagnostics. I have virtually zero ability to see any actual logs beyond just filtering to know if something's whack in my filtering. For all I know, remote filtering isn't actually taking place unless I manually check occasionally since there's nothing for me to look at within the system.

[lionelgruenberg]

We use a Palo Alto Firewall for web filtering. With the Palo we're able to create policies to control over applications (without having to worry about ports or protocols), users, and content traversing the network. We leverage the AD integration for logging, reporting, and security policies.

[jhbush]

@lpadmin we are using Palo Alto Firewalls as well. Nice products.