After being accepted into Nokia’s Security Developers Alliance, SurfControl ported its Web Filter VS software, usually available for Linux servers, to IPSO, Nokia’s hardened proprietary version of the FreeBSD operating system.
Feature-wise, the software is less functional than SurfControl’s other offerings, but is more than simply a URL database. VS integrates with LDAP directories, allowing user-based policies, and can also be configured to block banner and pop-up ads.
Content filtering firms are increasingly looking to integration with other network security devices – such as firewalls, proxies and application security gateways – to sell more product, whether it be simple URL lists or more complex software.
Websense said that its offering under the Nokia alliance is set to ship in the summer, and that it will allow more granular policy control that SurfControl’s product, such as setting usage quotas and filters based on time of day as well as by user.
SurfControl’s US president Kevin Blakeman said that both Nokia’s and SurfControl’s channel will be trained to sell the product. He added that while Nokia’s appliances are widely deployed, it remains to be seen how many users will choose content filtering to run alongside their firewall.
Blakeman said the software will be available on Nokia’s IP330 enterprise-targeted devices and higher, but not the SOHO-targeted appliances, priced on a sliding scale with a typical 500-seat license costing about $16 per seat in the first year.
Source: Computerwire
