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ContentProtect vs. SonicWall Web Content Filtering Client (CFC)

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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    ContentProtect

    Score3 out of 10
    N/AContentWatch in Salt Lake City, Utah offers ContentProtect, a web content filtering solution.N/A

    SonicWall Web Content Filtering Client (CFC)

    Score9 out of 10
    N/AThe SonicWall Web Content Client (CFC) compares requested sites against its database of web sites to provide configurable content filtering.N/A
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    ContentProtectSonicWall Web Content Filtering Client (CFC)
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    ContentProtectSonicWall Web Content Filtering Client (CFC)
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    Free/Freemium Version
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    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    User Ratings
    ContentProtectSonicWall Web Content Filtering Client (CFC)
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    3.0
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    User Testimonials
    ContentProtectSonicWall Web Content Filtering Client (CFC)
    Likelihood to Recommend
    ContentWatch
    If you are looking for something relatively inexpensive to lock down specific computers, it would be a useful tool. If the computers themselves aren't too locked down, implementation and management shouldn't be too difficult.
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    SonicWall
    When the user is connecting to the internet and should not access some social media website or malware sites or unauthorized websites which may distract users and affect the productivity so to avoid any problems. It is a very simple setup. It is very easy to deploy, configure, and implement.
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    Pros
    ContentWatch
    • The client is relatively light weight and doesn't impact other applications.
    • The client isn't easily bypassed, so the user's are kept under restrictions.
    • The configuration is relatively simple and easy to deploy.
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    SonicWall
    • In built customized policies
    • Control access to unsecure web content
    • Application traffic analytics
    • IP-based HTTPS content filtering
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    Cons
    ContentWatch
    • Our primary policy is a restricted list, so that does as advertised. We had one location that had blocks based on categories (adult, illegal, etc). We continually had issues with sites getting completely blocked due to unrelated content. For example, Yahoo had a beer ad on the page, alcohol was blocked, so Yahoo became blocked for the period of time that ad was displayed. We had this happen multiple times and eventually switched to a different solution at that location.
    • I've had issues with their cloud portal not working. I don't have to edit our configuration often, but on numerous occasions, i was unable to get the configuration page to load after login, sometimes for days. The platform just wasn't stable when I needed it to be.
    • We run many of our remote rooms as frozen (after logoff they reset to the image). This works fine most times, but when content protect needs a configuration change pushed down, someone needs to go 'thaw' the computers, download the updated configuration, and re-'freeze' the computer. It would be nice if that information was just dynamic from the cloud and didn't need to be pulled down.
    • The categorization used for policies is very limited and not flexible or easily customizable.
    • I could never get the usage reporting to work.
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    SonicWall
    • Malware scanning
    • Content Filtering Client for roaming devices
    • Cost
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    Alternatives Considered
    ContentWatch
    At the time ContentProtect was selected, Forcepoint (Websense at the time) didn't have an inexpensive or cloud type product. The same can be said with Cisco, at that time. Recently, we have reevaluated and are going to be transitioning to Forcepoint's mobile client and removing ContentProtect from our environment. The cost is actually now less and we will be able to get both more dynamic control and also give us more detailed reporting on the traffic from clients.
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    SonicWall
    Easy to setup and more stable solution. User friendly interface. Scalable and also in terms of cost it seems to be affordable solution with the best in-class protection benefits and other on demand features like dynamically updated
    rating architecture and high-performance web caching and
    rating architecture
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    Return on Investment
    ContentWatch
    • It was a relatively inexpensive and simple solution when we needed one relatively quickly, which is a positive. The inexpensive price has kept it in the environment.
    • The lack of reliable reporting has lead to the need for an alternate monitoring solution in a few cases. Network level reporting was used, which is a separate expense, configuration.
    • Time has been lost waiting on the portal and then troubleshooting support tickets when sites that shouldn't have been blocked have been blocked. It has resulted in changes for locations that needed dynamic category filtering as opposed to a finite list.
    • The blocking of sites based on add traffic or sub-sites (rather than just blocking that content like other solutions) has resulted in downtime during classes when those sites were listed in the lesson plan and had previously worked.
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    SonicWall
    • Improves Productivity
    • Ensures safe environment by allowing genuine traffic
    • Continued productivity helps to regain ROI in more figures
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