cloud web filtering platform

Cloud Web Filtering PlatformIdeal for MSP, ISP and service providers

Presented by:Tim LloydEmail: tim.lloyd@censornet.com Tel: 0845 230 9590 x 1

What is it ?

Multi-tenant architecture

White label ready

Standards based / Easy integration (RESTful API)Internet Content Adaption Protocol (ICAP)

SaaS web filtering solutionwww.cloudwebfiltering.com

Low bandwidth overhead / Low latency experience

Key components of the platform

• Policy enforcement and arbitration, URL categorisation, scheduling, raw log file collection

ICAP Server

• Log file post-processing, optimisation, data aggregation

Log processor

• Web based application for customers to configure and manage the web filtering service (Rich Internet Application)

Portal

• Standards based REST API for integrating 3rd party applications / web applications with the platform

RESTful API

• Windows software installed on the end-user computer to enable native ICAP communication with the platform, for increased speed, latency and reduced bandwidth overhead

Cloud Link client software

Example topology

The ICAP advantage

• Open standards – compliant with 3rd party cache engines / IDS servers / Routers

• Scalable – multiple ICAP servers to service requests & responses from single cache

• More efficient than HTTP proxying

• Special “Preview” and “204 responses” designed to reduce traffic/bandwidth

Performance

• Each ICAP instance with 1 CPU core can handle up to 10,000 persistent connections

• User lookup cache can handle hundreds of thousands of different users

• URL categorisation ~50,000 transactions per second (2.5GHz x64 AMD core)

Centralised management

• Cloudwebfiltering.com web control panel can be branded to suit your business

Cloud Link client

• Small footprint, runs as background service• “Single sign on” identifies users as they browse• Simple to install (MSI package)• Tray app for easy configuration or command line tool for

scripting• “Fail open” option• Local bypass of hosts and applications

RESTful API

• Develop your own portal

• Integrate into an existing portal

• Use the service in different and unique ways

• HTTP based API• JSON format• Ideal for use with ExtJS, Jquery, etc

Thank youAny questions?