Canadian software distributor APL Borealis Inc. is pleased to offer a new and innovative Web Content Filtering product for Corporations, Governments, and Institutions.

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    ContentKeeper SP - for Internet Service Providers

ContentKeeper is a fourth generation adaptive web filtering appliance for enterprise environments.

ContentKeeper uses a global control list containing millions of URLs as well as a leading artificial intelligence, adaptive learning and knowledge-based real time engine to deliver a filtering solution second to none.

ContentKeeper provides a scaleable, fault tolerant solution, which fully satisfies all the technical and commercial requirements demanded by large-scale enterprise environments. ContentKeeper currently provides the world's best content management tool for numerous government and industry clients of any size.

ContentKeeper is based upon technology that uses the best features of Control List Blocking, enhanced by Dynamic Analysis and Filtering Controls. ContentKeeper monitors, manages and controls all web traffic and fully examines new and/or unknown sites in real time as the data passes through the appliance. Guided by flexible and adaptive policy-based content rules, ContentKeeper manages and controls downloads and desktop access to web content.

ContentKeeper’s Closed Loop Collaborative Filtering Technology provides automatic worldwide collaborative site discovery, analysis, classification and re-classification with HOURLY control list updates, twenty four hours a, day seven days a week. Currently ContentKeeper orchestrates in excess of approximately 1,000,000 users worldwide to help find, analyze, classify and re-classify new Internet sites automatically.

In brief, while there are several products on the market which perform this task, we believe that ContentKeeper is unique, and far more effective in its operation, for several reasons. Foremost among these is the fully-automated and patented real-time Collaborative Filtering process. This means that all worldwide installations, thousands of online users, participate in the URL analysis and collection process on a real-time basis. Also, ContentKeeper is a stand-alone solution rather than a software add-on which requires the presence of other third party products such as proxy server or firewall technologies.

ContentKeeper was awarded Winner for "Best Enterprise Software" at a recent Networld+Interop exhibition. In addition, the product received high marks in an Independent Review featured in a recent issue of Network Computing magazine - March 2002. Please visit www.contentkeeper.com for details.

ContentKeeper is competitively priced, based on the number of users on your network. Also, because it continuously updates itself, ContentKeeper is sold on an annual subscription basis. Some discounts may apply, for example we offer a 20% discount for educational institutions.

Complete product information is available at the ContentKeeper website: www.contentkeeper.com

Organizations where the product has been installed so far have experienced significant savings in terms of reducing non-business and inappropriate web-surfing and non-business bandwidth usage. Also important, ContentKeeper can reduce exposure to legal liability from copyright breaches and potential harassment issues, and offers protection against web-based virus attack.

Simply monitoring non-business usage, or setting management parameters for such usage by employees is also facilitated. ContentKeeper offers several features which allow the network manager to implement the product in a flexible and customized manner, and in accord with company policy and objectives. For instance, web-filtering may be turned on or off according to time of day, user ID, category of URL, etc. with an intuitive browser-based interface to the device.

ContentKeeper is designed to fit easily and transparently into existing networks and allows organizations to develop and enforce their own Internet acceptable use policies. ContentKeeper uses its own patented, industry leading, Closed-Loop Collaborative Filtering Technology which ensures that the database of non-business related sites is superior in quality and coverage. ContentKeeper also employs AI techniques and the latest in real-time blocking and classification technology to catch new and previously unvisited sites.

Major Benefits

• Improve staff productivity - reduce or eliminate non-business web browsing
• Recover Internet bandwidth - reduce non-business downloads, streaming media, etc.
• Reduce legal exposure - eliminate illegal or inappropriate Internet content in the workplace
• Reduce exposure to web-based virus attack

  Compatible / Scaleable / Design

• Stand-alone appliance - no compatibility issues; network and OS independent
• Fully-scalable - designed to handle 50 to 50,000 users and up, with no significant network latency
• Hack-proof transparent Ethernet Bridge design
• user resolution by NetBIOS, DNS,TCP/IP, NTLM or Basic proxy; supports all directory services including NT40, Active Directory, Novell eDirectory, LDAP, Radius

  Filtering / Policies

• Combined Control List and Real Time blocking
• Closed-Loop Collaborative Filtering for hourly world-wide URL collection, analysis, categorization and quality control
• Extensive policy definition tools: monitor or control access by site, category, file types, media types, custom URLs, users, groups, IP address, wild-card extensions, etc.
• Time of day and cumulative surfing time by category controls

  Administration / Reporting

• Secure, browser-based management - designed to absolutely minimize administration
• Optional fail-safe instant bypass switch
• Automated log file management and reporting; export to all standard systems; real time monitoring and historical reports
• Advanced Reporting Module - extensive and customizable for automated, template-driven reports; automated delivery via web/email

  Awards / Reviews

• "Best Enterprise Software" - Networld+Interop show, March, 2002
• Network Computing magazine - Excellent Independent Review - March, 2002
• PC World (Denmark) - 4 Golden Globes - Feb'03
• Secure Computing magazine - nomination for Global Award, 2004

  Licence / Price

• Annual subscription includes all software updates and hourly control list updates - both automated
• Competitively priced, based on the number of users on your network - call us for a quote!