Surf Sentinel Product Details

Surf Sentinel® is GTA's Internet Access Management and Content Filtering subscription service for GB-OS based firewalls available in GB-OS System Software version 5.0.6 and higher.

Surf Sentinel, using a powerful content filtering technology, allows organizations to increase productivity and reduce liability of access to unproductive or inappropriate web sites. This outsourced model categorized lists on off-site servers so no additional hardware is needed. GTA's multiple server locations provide redundancy that effectively eliminates downtime from system failures or heavy data traffic. Time based polices add flexibilty, giving system administrators the ability to set various levels of content filtering for different time groups. With over 70 content categories and enhanced policy settings, Surf Sentinel Content Filtering is easily customizable for organizations of all types and sizes.

Option Availablity
Product Standard Optional Not available
GB-3000
GB-2000X
GB-2000e
GB-2000
GB-800e
GB-800
GB-250e
GB-250
GB-Ware
GB-1500
GB-1200
GB-750
GB-500
GB-200

Key Features:
  • Control Access through 70 content categories
  • Millions of categorized URLs
  • Implement access policies by IP address or group
  • Customize with GB-OS System Software's local access and deny list
  • Easy to administer and enforce Internet acceptable use policies
  • Annual subscription service with flexible user licensing
  • FREE 30 day evaluation available

Surf Sentinel Content Categories:
Surf Sentinel currently recognizes the following categories:
  • Abused Drugs
  • Adult and Pornography
  • Alcohol and Tobacco
  • Auctions
  • Botnets
  • Business and Economy
  • Computer and Internet Information
  • Computer and Internet Security
  • Confirmed Spam Sources
  • Content Delivery Networks
  • Cult and Occult
  • Dating
  • Dead Sites
  • Dynamically Generated Content
  • Educational Institutions
  • Entertainment and Arts
  • Fashion and Beauty
  • Financial Services
  • Games
  • Government
  • Hacking
  • Health and Medicine
  • Home and Garden
  • Hunting and Fishing
  • Image and Video Search
  • Individual Stock Advice and Tools
  • Internet Communications
  • Internet Portals
  • Job Search
  • Keyloggers and Monitoring
  • Kids
  • LegalMalware Sites
  • Marijuana
  • Military
  • Motor Vehicles
  • News and Media
  • Nudity
  • Online Gambling
  • Online Greeting Cards
  • Online Music Sales
  • Online Personal Storage
  • Open HTTP Proxies
  • Parked Domains
  • Pay to Surf
  • Peer to Peer
  • Personal Sites and Blogs
  • Philosophy and Political Advocacy
  • Phishing and Other Frauds
  • Private IP Addresses
  • Proxy Avoidance and Anonymizers
  • Questionable
  • Real Estate
  • Recreation and Hobbies
  • Religion
  • Sex Education
  • Shareware and Freeware
  • Shopping
  • Society
  • Spam URLs
  • Sports
  • Spyware and Adware
  • Streaming Media
  • Swimsuits and Intimate Apparel
  • Tourist Information
  • Training and Tools
  • Travel
  • Uncategorized
  • Unconfirmed Spam Sources
  • Weapons
  • Web Advertisements
  • Web Based Email
  • Web Hosting

Content Filtering Example


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  1. Users request access to websites outside of the protected network.
    When browsing the Internet, users request to access approved (1a) or unproductive, inappropriate (1b) websites.
  2. Surf Sentinel allows and denies traffic as defined by network's Internet access policy.
    Surf Sentinel checks and sorts requests by allowing access to approved websites and blocking access to restricted websites.

 
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