Clearswift URL Filtering

General Features

• Categorizing 99.9% of the active web, enabled by a Global Feedback Network of hundreds of millions of users worldwide
• More than 55 million sites categorized with 10 million new sites added and 10 million dead sites removed each year
• Coverage representing billions of web pages from around the world
• Over 100 categories using automated categorization technology (machine learning) that has been continually improved for over a decade
• Additional Data Feeds (i.e., government, illegal content, terrorism, etc.)
• Sophisticated deep learning system used for categorizing image heavy, text-poor sites
• Experienced team to support override requests, with human support
• Sensitive categories, such as suicide and hate, are manually curated
• Unknown URLs returned from customers automatically processed
• Categorization Experts performing targeted discovery supporting customer requirements
• Daily manual review of Top Unknowns from each customer
• Regularly maintained – URLs frequently rechecked
• Pages analyzed in over 28 languages including: Arabic, Catalan, Chinese, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, Greek, German, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Lithuanian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, and Vietnamese

Special Features

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By combining this visibility with our automated analysis and human research efforts, the MCD provides unique, timely, and actionable protection from Internet-based threats. These sites are organized into 4 different categories. The database is frequently updated and when integrated into a Web filtering solution to provide an effective protection against ever-changing Internet-based malware threats.

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Competitors

• Zscaler
• Cisco OpenDNS
• Check Point
• Forcepoint
• Palo Alto Networks