Pretty much every business now operates online every day. Without considering the constant pressure of cyber security threats, you leave your entire business at risk. Web filtering solutions are essential for securing your business’s online presence, providing the multi-layered protection needed to safeguard against cyber threats.
What is Web Filtering?
Web filtering is a security measure allowing businesses to monitor and restrict access to websites based on their content. This web protection system categorises and filters sites for a variety of reasons, such as protection from cyber security threats and meeting any possible compliance issues. Simply put, it gives you control over your business’ internet usage whilst securing your team from phishing attacks and malware.
Why Your Business Needs Web Protection
1. Protect Against Cyber Security Threats
Cyber security threats are a constant worry for businesses, and web protection is an effective way to reduce risks. Without filtering, employees may accidentally visit harmful sites, exposing your business to malware and phishing attempts. Cyber criminals often target users with malicious URLs designed to harvest sensitive data, like login credentials. By blocking risky sites, web filtering prevents these accidental exposures, keeping your business safe.
2. Improve Security Awareness Training
While training employees on cyber security best practices is incredibly important, no one is immune to making mistakes. Web filtering can serve as a backup layer to support any efforts you’ve made for security awareness training. Even with well-informed employees, all it takes is an accidental click and malicious sites could harvest your data.
3. Enforce Internal Policies and Block Inappropriate Content
Web filters not only block threats but can also enforce workplace standards by limiting access to unsuitable content, including gambling, adult material, and violent sites. Restricting access to these is standard for most organisations, and in doing so you encourage a professional environment, setting and meeting internal policies on acceptable internet use.
4. Reduce Distractions and Increase Productivity
Some businesses or organisations may find that they need to reduce how often employees are frequently distracted by non-work-related websites. Web filtering gives you control access to certain sites, such as streaming services, while keeping relevant business sites accessible. This can be customised to suit your industry as many industries would require access to a wide variety of websites and services for their actual day to day work.
5. Maximise Network Bandwidth
Streaming sites and high-traffic content platforms can consume large amounts of network bandwidth, slowing down other essential business functions. If needed, web filtering can prevent unnecessary strain on your bandwidth, allowing for faster downloads and more stable web conferencing, ensuring that your secure web resources are fully available when needed. This can be especially useful when hosting important online calls, or hosting webinars.
6. Meet Regulatory Compliance Standards
In many industries, regulatory standards require businesses to control access to specific types of online content. Organisations dealing with sensitive data, such as healthcare providers or educational institutions, often face guidelines mandating responsible data management and content filtering. Adhering to these standards not only fulfils compliance requirements but also reinforces your commitment to data protection, enhancing trust in your organisation.
How we Help Business’ Web Protection
Censornet’s Web Security Module uses a combination of real-time traffic inspection, URL reputation analysis, and machine learning to detect and block web-borne threats without slowing down user experience. Built on a lightweight ICAP protocol, this technology minimises lag by allowing browsers to communicate directly with web servers, while only metadata is checked against cloud policies.
Integrated into a unified platform, Censornet’s Web Security makes managing web protection simple with:
- Centralised policy controls
- Data visualisation
- Clear reporting
We can easily adapt and scale to the needs of any organisation. After all, we aim to ensure that web security is easy to manage, whether protecting users on the network or allowing secure access for remote or BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) users.
Secure Your Business with Advanced Web Filtering Today
Secure Your Business with Advanced Web Filtering Today
Take proactive steps to secure your business’s online presence with Censornet’s integrated, multi-layered web filtering solutions. Learn more via our datasheet to discover how web filtering can protect your organisation and provide a secure, efficient work environment.
