Filtering Categories - Enterprise internet Security System

Content Filtering Categories

Enterprise Security System  allows the network administrator to set the filter to screen desired content and create custom block and allow lists using these categories.

Pornography & Recreational Nudity:
Pornography refers to any content containing bare breasts or genitalia in a photo, drawing, or other sexual depiction. Recreational nudity includes naturism, streaking, and other unclothed or see-through clothing activities.

Adult Material:
Websites and/or applications intended for an adult audience or content that is not specifically designed for viewing pornography, but may serve as a gateway to such material. This category also contain websites that are considered crude and tasteless.

Criminal Activity:
Criminal activity includes, but is not necessarily limited to, hacking or cracking, hate speech, illegal drug promotion, illegal weapons, and crime instructions.

Weapons & Violence:
Content pertaining to an instrument of attack or defense in combat such as guns, bombs, or swords. Also content pertaining to any physical force exerted for the purpose of violating, damaging, or abusing.

Personal Website Communities/Social Networking sites:
Sites where web page space is offered for free, such as MySpace, Xanga, GeoCities, Tripod, AngelFire, and others. Any URL categorized as such is not guaranteed to have each individual personal website sub-categorized, though we may do so from time to time. However, pornography, nudity, hate speech and other commonly undesirable content violates the Terms of Service of many personal website hosts. These sites more recently have become focused by Online Predators.

Chat/Instant Messaging/BBS:
Access to online chatting, message posting, voice transmission and software supporting such activities.

Media Search :
This category includes image, video and and audio directory searches. Websites like Google Images would be included in the Media Search category. Access to pornography can be prevalent if this category is not selected.

Web-Based E-mail:
Sites that offer free e-mail accounts in a web-based, or browser legible, format. Many teens unfortunately setup and use these free accounts to communicate to strangers without permission.

Swimsuits / Lingerie:
Content that provide photos of models wearing swimsuits, lingerie, underwear, or other highly revealing attire.

Alternate Lifestyle:
Non-pornographic content that provides information on or caters to gay, lesbian, bisexual, and other alternative lifestyles.

Alcohol & Tobacco:
Content that advocates or promotes the production or recreational use of alcoholic beverages or tobacco.

Personals & Dating:
Internet related websites and/or applications that post and receive information from people wanting to socialize.

Audio, Image & Video File Sharing:
This category includes peer-to-peer sharing websites such as KaZaa and BitTorrent that can be a source of explicit and illegal content. These type of file transfers are also notorious for being infected with viruses and other forms of malicious code.

Downloads:
Anything that enables the download of software, updates, patches and other computer-related components.

Games:
Internet participation of games such as puzzles, arcade, card, and logic problems. This category also covers any information that refers back to games such as strategy guides and hints.

Gambling/Wagering:
Any content providing online wagering and sites devoted exclusively to promote gambling activities.

Search Sites:
Internet related websites and/or applications that search or index any portion of the Internet.

Misc (Translation, Proxy, etc):
This category has language translation and anonymous proxy servers. These types of websites can be used to bypass content filtering.

Religion:
Content about the reverence of a supernatural power regarded as creator and governor of the universe or a set of beliefs, values, and practices based on the teachings of a spiritual leader.

Health:
Anything pertaining to the well being of a living body.

Job/Employment:
Any content that provides job listings and information related to employment, such as resume posting and interviewing tips.

Shopping:
Websites whose specific purpose is selling items to retail customers over the Internet. The shopping category is targeted to retailers who target the general public. This does not include business to business selling or target market selling.

News, Sports & Entertainment:
This category includes news, sports, entertainment, travel and financial news. Selection of this category would be appropriate in a work situation where time wasting is a problem.
 

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