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Employee Internet Management
Competitive Comparison

Overview of the Employee Internet Management Industry
Winter, 2003

• Introduction
• Market Description
• Corporate Vendor EIM Matrix
• Summary of Vendors in the EIM Market
• Comparison Table

Summary of Vendors in the Corporate EIM Market

Websense Enterprise
Websense Enterprise was designed to accommodate the unique needs of a corporation. Utilizing a sophisticated application with a proprietary URL database, Websense can be configured to the unique culture of a corporation with numerous management and reporting functions. It is tightly integrated with the leading Internet infrastructure providers, including Cisco, Check Point, Inktomi and CacheFlow. As a result, Websense is used by 20600 organizations, and is preferred by the Fortune 500.

SurfControl
While Websense is focused on the corporate market, SurfControl spreads itself across all three market segments – corporate, education, and home. Its flagship product, SurfControl Web Filter, is designed for small businesses. SurfControl's enterprise product, Web Filter VS, has limited policy and management capabilities.

Secure Computing SmartFilter
In 1999, Symantec purchased URLabs, the publisher of I-Gear, now called Web Security. The product was geared for the education market, with limited success in the enterprise market. Web Security uses so-called Dynamic Document Review to look at each Web page as it passes through the network. This technology is based on keywords and is thus prone to inaccuracies. Furthermore, determining content in real-time affects network performance.

N2H2
N2H2 is primarily targeted at the education market, and its share of the corporate market is negligible. N2H2 switched from a hardware/software proxy combination to a software solution. Its new software products have had minimal success in the corporate market. The company's poor financial condition had been impacting its ability to maintain its database and funding of new product development. N2H2 was recently purchased by Secure Computing.

Vendor Comparison Table

The following table details the leading EIM providers offerings and is broken into the following segments:

• Enterprise Features: How well does the product meet the administrative and technology needs of a enterprise
• Management Options: Is the offering flexible enough to meet the needs of the employees
• Reporting: Reports on activity
• Database of Internet Sites: Accuracy and freshness of the database
• Performance: The ability to scale to meet performance demands
• Network Control Points: Where in the network does the product interface

	Websense	SurfControl Web Filter	Symantec Web Security	N2H2	Secure Computing SmartFilter
Enterprise Features
Pass-by/pass-through hybrid
Choice of Integrated or standalone deployment		Limited Integrations
Provides EIM protection at the server, network and  desktop level
Central policy distribution
Policy-based by users/departments
Remote Management
Pre-defined access policies
NT support
Solaris support
LDAP support
Support for multiple NIC cards
	Websense	SurfControl Web Filter	Symantec Web Security	N2H2	Secure Computing SmartFilter
Management Options
Block or allow access
Continue/defer option				1 (on select platform s only-Wi ndows edition)
Time-based quotas
Transparent ID
Customized block pages
Local language block pages
Multiple "Yes Lists"
Management of file types by category (audio, video,  executables, etc.) and updates
Filter by file name/type
Dynamic protocol management and updates
Dynamic bandwidth management based on network load
Block/allow file attachments via IM
Password override
* SurfControl's "Threshold Blocking" feature does not  notify users they are under a quota. By not proactively  notifying users of the policy and giving them a choice to  continue or defer surfing, SurfControl's approach will lead to  increased support calls to network administrators. Only  available on SurfControl's Standalone, Microsoft Proxy Server  and ISA server versions.
	Websense	SurfControl Web Filter	Symantec Web Security	N2H2	Secure Computing SmartFilter
Reporting
Number of reports	60+	45	zero	50	6
Custom reports possible
Local language reports
Risk reports
Web-based realtime analysis
	Websense	SurfControl Web Filter	Symantec Web Security	N2H2	Secure Computing SmartFilter
Database of Internet  Sites
Number of sites	6 million+	6 million+	1 million	Not availabl e	4 million
Effective in blocking Adult Material sites Based on  eTesting Labs study	98%	92.5% (missed 15 million pages that Websense blocked)	Not available	Not availabl e	92.5% (missed 15 million pages that Websense blocked)
Effectiveness in blocking Gambling sites Based on  eTesting Labs study	95%	65% (missed 1.9 million pages that Websense blocked)	Not available	Not availabl e	35% (missed 3.6 million pages that Websense blocked)
WebCatcher (adaptive database)*
Manages embedded URLs (Google cache pages, Akamai  content, etc.)
Frequency of updates	Daily	Daily	Daily	Daily	Weekly
Number of categories	80+	40	31	42	30
Comprehensiveness of database relative to Websense**		48%	<50%	TBD	<25%
Primary focus	Business	Business, School and Home	Consumer	School	Business
* WebCatcher enables the Master Database to grow based on  the surfing patterns of the entire Websense customer  community.
** To derive this comparison, the Websense database was  passed through each of the supplier's products. The percentage  listed above reflects the number of sites blocked by Websense  that are also blocked by their product, and it demonstrates  that many sites that should be blocked are not being blocked  by other supplier's products.
	Websense	SurfControl Web Filter	Symantec Web Security	N2H2	Secure Computing SmartFilter
Performance
Scalable to >20,000 users
Effective at high network speeds
Not susceptible to overload during high Internet usage  periods		(Prone to under-blocking in high volume situations)	(Prone to under-blocki ng in high volume situations)	TBD	TBD
	Websense	SurfControl Web Filter	Symantec Web Security	N2H2	Secure Computing SmartFilter
Cache Servers Supported
Blue Coat Systems Appliance
Cisco Content Engine
HP ProLiant
Dell PowerApp.cache
F5 EDGE-FX
Hewlett-Packard Web Cache
iMimic DataReactor
InfoLibria DynaCache
Inktomi Traffic Server
Network Appliance NetCache
Stratacache
Volera Excelerator
	Websense	SurfControl Web Filter	Symantec Web Security	N2H2	Secure Computing SmartFilter
Firewalls Supported
Check Point FireWall-1
Cisco PIX Firewall
CyberGuard Firewall
NetScreen
ServGate
SLMsoft SecurIT
SonicWALL Firewall
Secure Computing SecureZone Firewall
Computer Associates SessionWall
	Websense	SurfControl Web Filter	Symantec Web Security	N2H2	Secure Computing SmartFilter
Proxy Servers, Switches and Internet  Appliances Supported
Cisco Catalyst 6000 Switches
Microsoft Proxy Server
Microsoft ISA Server
Sun ONE Web Proxy Server
Squid Proxy Server