GFI WebMonitor® - Features

For example, the administrator can allow users to browse news and social networking sites for not more than one hour per day. When users exceed their time allowance threshold, a notification page is displayed informing them that their allowed browsing time has been used up. Such policies can be defined for specific websites or entire categories of websites.

Its WebGrade database offers coverage of over 280 million domains and extensive URL coverage across more than 30 languages, with additional websites being added continually. Due to the constantly changing nature of the web, GFI WebMonitor also queries GFI servers for the categorization of URLs that are not found in the local cached database. If a URL is found to be uncategorized, it is processed by the server and added to the database. Click here to learn about the URL classification process for the GFI WebMonitor WebGrade database.

A typical example will be to block all news sites except www.cnn.com.

Proactive protection from Internet threats can save you from being infected and therefore from potentially devastating consequences.

GFI WebMonitor provides reputation-based filtering, which uses the reputation score of a website or IP address to predict the security risk involved in visiting that website. A website’s reputation is calculated from hundreds of metrics that include infection history, age of establishment, site popularity, site content and many others;  a score is then awarded  from one (high risk) to 100 (trustworthy).

Website reputation-based filtering adds a proactive layer of security as well as enabling flexible Internet access policies. For example,GFI WebMonitor allows you to enable access to "Shopping" websites while simultaneously providing protection by blocking access to low-reputation shopping sites.

Using multiple scanners reduces the average time taken to obtain the latest virus signatures, greatly reducing the risk to your site by each new virus. Also, since each engine has its own heuristics and methods, each brings its own unique strength in detecting and correcting for the ever-increasing variety of viruses. Overall, more antivirus engines mean more virus protection. GFI WebMonitor is bundled with the VIPRE and BitDefender antivirus engines. It automatically checks and updates the VIPRE and BitDefender definition files as they become available. The GFI WebMonitor price includes updates for one year.

To achieve greater security and enhance the benefits gained by scanning via multiple antivirus engines, users can add the Kaspersky SuperSecure antivirus engine, available as an optional add-on. The Kaspersky SuperSecure database includes support for the detection of malicious software that can perform remote administration, key logging, password detection, automatic dial-up to paid sites, and more. GFI WebMonitor automatically checks and updates the Kaspersky definition files as they become available.

To offer the ability to drill down to the necessary information easily, GFI WebMonitor’s ‘Smart Dashboards’ allow interactive filtering based on categories, websites and users. In addition, on-screen sorting of the data is available on the fly.

Access rights can be assigned based either on the IP of the computer or the domain-authenticated username. Access will only be granted to users in GFI WebMonitor’s authorized users or IP list.

Users can drill down attain the required information, whilst interactive sorting allows administrators to quickly determine information such as Top Surfers, Top Downloaders, Top Uploaders, Top Policy Breakers, Top Sites Visited, Top Blocked users. This allows administrators to easily see who is breaching the company's Internet Usage Policy.

Other information includes browsing restricted sites, downloading of malware infected files or file types that are blocked through download control policies.

For example, you could temporarily grant access to a particular user for his or her personal webmail account for a specified period of time, say over employee lunch breaks.

This extends the granularity of filtering and control offered by GFI WebMonitor through filtering, download control and virus scanning policies to such encrypted traffic.