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What is FortiGuard Web Filtering Service?
Fortinet headquartered in Sunnyvale, California offers the FortiGuard Web Filtering Service, a web content filter.
Great protection for your environment
Reliable web filtering with a lot of flexibility
Accurate web filtering for corporate and EDU environments
FortiGuard Web Filtering - Best for School and SMB
Easy to setup!!
FortiGuard Web Filtering Service -- Easy, Fast, Effective
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What is FortiGuard Web Filtering Service?
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- Business Problems Solved
FortiGuard Web Filtering Service has proven to be an invaluable tool for users seeking to filter harmful and damaging websites. Users have successfully utilized the service to minimize data leakage and maintain uninterrupted work environments. The ease of implementation has made it a popular choice, as it eliminates the need for manual maintenance of web filtering lists.
The service's versatility is evident in its application across different settings. It has been effectively used as part of proof-of-concept projects within departments and implemented in pilot programs at test high schools, middle schools, and elementary schools. Integration with firewalls in various locations, branches, and enterprises allows for separate rule sets tailored to different networks and users.
Business problems such as protecting against phishing attempts, preventing non-work related browsing, securing guest wireless networks, and enabling user activity logging have found their solutions with FortiGuard Web Filtering Service. Users also appreciate its user-friendly approach, which does not require installation of a root certificate on PCs. The service includes website categorization and antivirus protection to further enhance its capabilities.
Having been relied upon for approximately 4 years, FortiGuard Web Filtering Service has proven its effectiveness where other software solutions have fallen short. Its ability to block unwanted access and prevent malicious content extends across multiple platforms and operating systems, making it a powerful solution for organizations in need of comprehensive web filtering capabilities.
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(1-4 of 4)Great protection for your environment
- Good web filtering
- Supports many platforms
- Needs working on more tools
- Easy to use
- Strong protection
- Supports many platforms
- Pricing
- Sometimes dashboard working slow
Reliable web filtering with a lot of flexibility
- Rule-based web filtering
- Categorised web filtering
- Web sites are often miscategorised. I was regularly having to submit websites to the Fortinet review service to have them re-categorised correctly. So, users would report websites were blocked when they should not be. It happened a lot.
It allows management/IT to minimise risk by blocking websites that may be harmful, as well as websites that may enable data leakage, or even are websites that people ought not to be visiting in the workplace.
- Rule-based filtering
- Role-based filtering, i.e. can have different rules for different groups
- Categorised web-based filtering
- We can be confident staff cannot inadvertantly or deliberately access websites that contain porn, or other non-safe for work content
- We can be confident staff cannot inadvertantly or deliberately access harmful and malicious websites
- We can be confident data leakage is minimised
Accurate web filtering for corporate and EDU environments
- Quick turnaround for reclassifying websites
- Effective web filtering
- Easy to implement with a GUI
- Some websites are classified as Meaningless content, especially links used in emails to unsubscribe from lists. Luckily FortiGuard Web Filtering Service is responsive about reclassifying those quickly.
- Accurate web filtering to reduce the amount of trouble tickets
- Easy to manually whitelist individual sites
- Quick turnaround for incorrectly categorized sites
- Easy to manage block/unblock categories
- We have always used FortiGuard Web Filtering Service, and their web filter has been immeasurably helpful in keeping our network safe from phishing websites, viruses and malware
FortiGuard Web Filtering - Best for School and SMB
- FortiGuard Web Filtering Service effectively protects websites. There is no need to install the root certificate on all PCs inside the network.
- The database signature updates every hour, so we don't need to spend time updating the website to blacklist or whitelist.
- It can protect very well. Whereas, some traditional proxies can not do that. For example, others can not block Youtube or Facebook.
- It can also protect the search keyword, like in Youtube or other social media, Google, etc.
- The functionality of FortiGuard is simple and easy to use but not advance.
- The command line is difficult to use and understand.
- It can block bad websites and categories so students and staff can not go to them.
- It can block viruses or spam that come from the internet. It also blocks bad advertising on websites, so when browsing it looks clean with no alerts or ads.
- The subscription is a bit expensive. However, taking its value into consideration makes it worthwhile.