GateWall DNS Filter

Represents a versatile tool for control and restriction of inappropriate activity of employees on the Internet. The program is intended for implementation in large and medium-sized companies, educational, social, public and other institutions. The GateWall DNS Filter installation allows to organize in short terms control of use of the Internet both specific workers, and separate divisions of the company, for example, by remote branches.

Functionality of the software solution allows to configure independently or to use already ready scenarios of filtering of certain content, such as social networks, entertaining or the pornowebsites, forums, anonymizers and other undesirable resources. The product uses constantly renewed largest base including more than 500 million categorized websites. In case it is required to block or on the contrary to permit access to thematic resources to specific employees, it is possible to differentiate easily the rights, having created user groups.

Thanks to failure from use of lock technology use of technology does not influence work of internal network in any way. Moreover, its work is not noticeable for end users. Nevertheless, the company management can quickly receive reports on actions of employees on the Internet in a graphic or text type.

GateWall DNS Filter does not require installation and settings of special local equipment rooms and software packages, at the same time will functionally add already existing solutions and software.

The provider can set GateWall DNS Filter on the server or be connected to the cloud solution provided based on SoftCloud. This option gives the chance to configure filtering for users almost instantly and without any investments into hardware solutions and technologies. Performance of technology allows to service tens of thousands of users at the same time.

GateWall DNS Filter 2.0

The new version of the software solution is adapted for use by Internet service providers and does ability to integrate with a billing system of provider through specially developed API. One of the main features of a product is simplicity of solution deployment as "cloud" service that provides almost unlimited scalability of a system. The new module of statistics is added to GateWall DNS Filter 2.0. The product does not use the management console any more — administration of the software solution is performed only via the web interface now. The solution allows to set settings of different groups. It gives the chance to use one server for a large number of clients, each of which can independently both independently manage settings of filtering and have access to statistics of the users.

GateWall DNS Filter packed according to the APS standard

Application Packaging Standard (APS) is a set of the specifications and API simplifying sale of solutions SaaS on show-windows Internet and hosting providers. The international standard APS is open and is controlled independent organization (www.appsstandard.org) which allows software developers and "cloud" operators not only to use the standard, but also to participate in its development. Unification on APS gives the chance to prepare any application for distribution through network of service providers. This standard is widely used on the platforms developed by Parallels company for a set of applications among which such as Joomla, WordPress, Drupal, SugarCRM, Megaplan, VideoMost, Bitrix and others.

"Development of technologies demands from developers of daily progress, - Dmitry Kurashev comments. - Especially it concerns the solutions available as SaaS. Packaging of GateWall DNS Filter will allow us to meet for the APS standard the last market demands of "cloud" products", and to service providers (in particular, to Internet service providers), for example, to unroll a product in a cluster or to integrate with a control panel".

Text Filtering для GateWall DNS Filter

The modern requirements of the legislation to filtering of Internet resources imposed to providers cannot be satisfied only with use of technology of check of DNS queries. Dynamic updating of the used bases of the websites promotes providing the high level of filtering, but does not reduce the probability of the admission of the undesirable website to absolute zero. All this causes the aspiration of developers to take a step forward in the field of the content filters capable to maintain huge loading.

Text Filtering allows GateWall DNS Filter to make in addition to check of DNS queries morphological analysis of the pages loaded by the user by means of the dictionary set by the administrator. Operation of this module is based on use of the ICAP server (Internet Content Adaptation Control).

The solution provides detailed statistics on activity of users on the Internet. Work with accounts of users, categories, the dictionary and rules of filtering is performed in the administrator's web console.

With the advent of the new module GateWall DNS Filter purchased indicators of fault tolerance and a scaling option, also sufficient for implementation in the high-loaded networks of Internet service providers. Integration of a product into a personal account of the operator is performed using specially developed API.

GateWall DNS Filter 2.1 works with Text Filtering based on OS Linux. For integration of a product it is necessary to use the proxy server supporting work of ICAP.