Name: ContentProtect Professional Overview
Uploaded: 2011-01-19T19:59:26.000Z
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Description: ContentProtect Professional Overview

Help Desk

Web and Video Conferencing

Customer Support

Chatbot

Flowchart

Innovation Management

Development

Attendance Tracking

Education

Barcode

Business Intelligence (BI)

Collaboration

Corporate Performance Management (CPM)

Digital Rights Management (DRM)

Streaming Analytics

Enterprise

Accounting

Crypto Accounting

FinTech

Finance and Accounting

Applicant Tracking

Corporate Learning Management

HR Management

Payroll

Recruitment Marketing

Talent Intelligence

Talent Management

Video Interview

Workforce Analytics

Workforce Management

Human Resources

Archiving

Cloud Storage

Digital Experience Monitoring (DEM)

Disk Cloning

Fraud Detection

Identity Verification

Integration Platform as a Service (iPaaS)

Network Performance Monitoring

Office Migration and Repair

SIP Trunking

Virtual Data Room

Web Scraping

Zero Trust Security Solutions

Information Technology

A/B Testing

Ad Serving & Retargeting

All-in-One Marketing

Blogging

Contact Center

Content Management

Email Marketing

Enterprise Marketing Management

Event Management

Identity Resolution

Marketing Automation

Personalization Engines

Sales and Marketing Automation

Social Media Management

Survey & Forms Building

Video Editing

Web Analytics

Wholesale Marketplace

Marketing

Job Site Management

Project Management

Professional Services

Customer Relationship Management (CRM)

Revenue Operations

Sales

API Security

Cloud-Native Application Protection Platforms

File Integrity Monitoring

Security

Automotive

Catering

Construction Takeoff and Estimating

Interior Design

Law Practice Management

Moving Software

Nonprofit CRM

Real Estate Property Management

Retail Analytics

Retail Management

Roofing

Vertical-Specific

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Overview

Pricing

ProductDemos

Features

ProductDetails

Comparisons

ReviewsAndRatings

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Lightspeed Filter

Web Content Filtering

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GoGuardian Admin is a web content filtering solution from education software company GoGuardian in Los Angeles, provide web filtering on-campus and off-campus filtering.

GoGuardian Admin

GoGuardian

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Support Rating

Palo Alto Networks

FortiGuard Web Filtering Service

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DNSFilter

DNSFilter, Inc.

Sophos Web Content Filtering

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WebTitan DNS Filter

TitanHQ

Webroot DNS Protection

Webroot, an OpenText company

WatchGuard DNSWatchGO

Likelihood to Renew

WatchGuard Technologies

ContentWatch in Salt Lake City, Utah offers ContentProtect, a web content filtering solution.

small

Untangle NG Firewall is an open-source firewall and gateway security platform. It offers a free core firewall platform with paid add-ons, and a cloud-based management platform with a variety of deployment options for smaller teams.

Open Source Firewall

NG Firewall Complete

z4 appliance

z4w appliance

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z6 appliance

z12 appliance

z20 appliance

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Content Inspection

Policy-based Controls

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Reporting and Logging

High Availability

Stateful Inspection

Proxy Server

Untangle

DNSFilter headquartered in Waltham offers DNS-Based Content Filtering & Threat Protection.

BASIC

ENTERPRISE

ContentProtect

Web Content Filtering Solutions comprise appliances and software for censoring or preventing access to restricted web content deemed offensive or inappropriate.

ContentWatch

ContentProtect Professional Overview

A quick video showing the architecture and interface of ContentProtect Professional, the perfect small business and educational Internet Protection and Control Software.

Reviews

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Works fine

Configuration change

Not flexible

Easily customizable

Cloud portal

Light weight

Simple and easy

Easy to deploy

Home

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BMC Track-It!

SolarWinds Security Event Manager (SEM)

Websense TRITON (Discontinued)

Skype for Business, now part of Microsoft Teams

Microsoft Exchange

Accruent EMS

Cisco Umbrella

Microsoft 365

We have several remote classrooms that, for varying reasons, need to have web traffic restricted to a previously approved listing of sites. The computers at those locations have the ContentProtect client installed and configured to use computer specific accounts. The computers then allow the users to only access a certain list of sites needed for the classes offered in those rooms.

Product Usage

Pros and Cons

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.

Things done well

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.

Things done poorly

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.

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.

Return on Investment

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.

Forcepoint and OpenDNS Umbrella Web Filtering

Alternatives

Forcepoint TRITON, Skype for Business, Microsoft Exchange, BMC Track-It!, VMware vCenter Server, SolarWinds Log & Event Manager, SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor, Veeam Backup & Replication, Quest Identity Manager, Dean Evans and Associates Event Management Software, Microsoft Office 365

Other Software Used

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Mobile Application	No

ContentProtect

Overview

What is ContentProtect?

ContentProtect: Ok for a small problem, but you can do better.

Pricing

ContentProtect

What is ContentProtect?

Entry-level set up fee?

Offerings

Would you like us to let the vendor know that you want pricing?

Alternatives Pricing

Untangle NG Firewall

What is Untangle NG Firewall?

DNSFilter

What is DNSFilter?

Product Details

What is ContentProtect?

ContentProtect Video

ContentProtect Technical Details

Comparisons

Compare with

Lightspeed Filter

Barracuda Web Security Gateway

GoGuardian Admin

Palo Alto Networks Advanced URL Filtering

FortiGuard Web Filtering Service

DNSFilter

Sophos Web Content Filtering

WebTitan

Webroot DNS Protection

WatchGuard DNSWatchGO

Reviews and Ratings

Reviews

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