White List for Internet Access

[Steve Freides]

I have a client that is considering moving from a Novell environment to
a Windows-server environment. One of the concerns is that we have a
product we're using on the Novell side that provides "white list" web
access functionality - users can only visit approved site, and the sites
are maintained in text files on the server. Access is by groups, e.g.,
group A can visit all the sites listed in texfileA.txt, group B can
visit al the sites listed in textfileA plus those in textfileB, and so
on.

I'd appreciate knowing about products that offer this functionality in a
Windows environment. The client currently has SBS-2003 but will
probably get all new servers and start from scratch.

Thanks in advance.

-S-

 

[Peter]

Steve Freides wrote:

> I have a client that is considering moving from a Novell environment to
> a Windows-server environment. One of the concerns is that we have a
> product we're using on the Novell side that provides "white list" web
> access functionality - users can only visit approved site, and the sites
> are maintained in text files on the server. Access is by groups, e.g.,
> group A can visit all the sites listed in texfileA.txt, group B can
> visit al the sites listed in textfileA plus those in textfileB, and so
> on.
>
> I'd appreciate knowing about products that offer this functionality in a
> Windows environment. The client currently has SBS-2003 but will
> probably get all new servers and start from scratch.
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> -S-


The Novell Product you describe sounds like BorderManager with SurfControl.
Microsoft has a similar product in Internet Acceleration Server(ISA) 2006
which can also use SurfControl.

HTH

Peter

P.S. ISA 2008 should be out "Real Soon"(TM)

 

[Steve Freides]

"Peter" <spamfree@tampabay.rr.com> wrote in message
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> Steve Freides wrote:
>
>> I have a client that is considering moving from a Novell environment
>> to
>> a Windows-server environment. One of the concerns is that we have a
>> product we're using on the Novell side that provides "white list" web
>> access functionality - users can only visit approved site, and the
>> sites
>> are maintained in text files on the server. Access is by groups,
>> e.g.,
>> group A can visit all the sites listed in texfileA.txt, group B can
>> visit al the sites listed in textfileA plus those in textfileB, and
>> so
>> on.
>>
>> I'd appreciate knowing about products that offer this functionality
>> in a
>> Windows environment. The client currently has SBS-2003 but will
>> probably get all new servers and start from scratch.
>>
>> Thanks in advance.
>>
>> -S-
>
>
> The Novell Product you describe sounds like BorderManager with
> SurfControl.
> Microsoft has a similar product in Internet Acceleration Server(ISA)
> 2006
> which can also use SurfControl.

We are using a product called LinkWall on Novell, which is normally used
for Blacklisting but also has an "Allow" mode - we're using it in Allow
mode. I am not familiar with SurfControl.

Thanks.

-S-

> HTH
>
> Peter
>
> P.S. ISA 2008 should be out "Real Soon"(TM)

 

[Michael M.]

Sounds like as Peter mentioned that ISA could do it, also there are lots of
hardware appliances that do this, ones I know of is Barracuda and Threat
wall.some routers infact have this built in like the ZyWall range.

Mike.

"Steve Freides" <steve@fridayscomputer.com> wrote in message
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> "Peter" <spamfree@tampabay.rr.com> wrote in message
> news:46938fd2$0$24742$4c368faf@roadrunner.com...
>> Steve Freides wrote:
>>
>>> I have a client that is considering moving from a Novell environment to
>>> a Windows-server environment. One of the concerns is that we have a
>>> product we're using on the Novell side that provides "white list" web
>>> access functionality - users can only visit approved site, and the sites
>>> are maintained in text files on the server. Access is by groups, e.g.,
>>> group A can visit all the sites listed in texfileA.txt, group B can
>>> visit al the sites listed in textfileA plus those in textfileB, and so
>>> on.
>>>
>>> I'd appreciate knowing about products that offer this functionality in a
>>> Windows environment. The client currently has SBS-2003 but will
>>> probably get all new servers and start from scratch.
>>>
>>> Thanks in advance.
>>>
>>> -S-
>>
>>
>> The Novell Product you describe sounds like BorderManager with
>> SurfControl.
>> Microsoft has a similar product in Internet Acceleration Server(ISA) 2006
>> which can also use SurfControl.
>
> We are using a product called LinkWall on Novell, which is normally used
> for Blacklisting but also has an "Allow" mode - we're using it in Allow
> mode. I am not familiar with SurfControl.
>
> Thanks.
>
> -S-
>
>> HTH
>>
>> Peter
>>
>> P.S. ISA 2008 should be out "Real Soon"(TM)
>
>