Secure Web SmartFilter
SmartFilter Database

Overview:
Internet access is managed and monitored through the the powerful combination of reputation-based filtered powered by TrustedSource™ and SmartFilter® database. The filtering database provides a comprehensive and proven source of millions of global URLs that are organized into over 91 categories. These categories include sites that organizations may want to control access to such as liability, security, productivity, and bandwidth-intensive sites. The SmartFilter database also provides numerous categories that organizations typically don't block but rather use to better understand their Web traffic and include sites such as business and reference.

Consistently ranked most accurate filtering:
Independent studies have consistently named Secure Computing as having the most accurate database with top rankings in various reports.

Why is database quality so important?
A filtering database of lesser quality may still block plenty of sites, but it will also either let more inappropriate content through, block appropriate content, or both. The result of using a less-effective filtering product is more requests for help from users, and worse, more access allowed to offensive and possibly dangerous content.

How the best database in the industry is built and maintained:
Secure Computing relies on a combination of advanced technology and highly skilled Web analysts – the ideal combination for high accuracy and coverage. Secure Computing utilizes a number of technologies and artificial intelligence techniques to gather and rate potential Web sites including: link crawlers, security forensics, honeypot networks, sophisticated auto-rating tools and customer logs. Candidate sites are added to the SmartFilter database after being reviewed by our multi-lingual Web Analysts who focus their full attention on ensuring the continued quality of the database.

Web Analysts bring a wealth of experience:
Our Web analyst team brings a wealth of technical expertise and cultural diversity that's unmatched in the industry. Our SmartFilter database contains URLs from 66 different countries where unique languages are spoken. Large numbers of URLs are in Arabic, Chinese, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Hebrew, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, and Turkish.

Outstanding customer service:
Have a question on how a site is categorized? Customers can either use the online URL checker found on TrustedSource to determine how a site is categorized or communicate directly with the Web Analyst team. Customers can file tickets to track their URL request and receive detailed reports on how URLs in question are categorized.

Real-time updates and feedback:
Updates to the SmartFilter database are now available in real-time, helping you keep up with the changing nature of Internet content and stay ahead of emerging Web threats. SmartFilter also offers real-time automated feedback that sends uncategorized URLs to the TrustedSource network for review.