For small to medium businesses and large corporations, Employee Internet Management (EIM) has become an absolute requirement. Failure to implement an effective filtering solution often leads to lost productivity and potential legal liability.

Pornography is not the only problem. Many employees visit sports and gambling pages as well as auction sites for several hours during an average workday.

Innocent but irresponsible web usage can also have serious side effects. Downloading large or dangerous files, accessing streaming media (audio/video) and using unapproved web-based applications are all behavior that leads directly to damaged file systems and critical network bandwidth consumption.

The need to control corporate Internet abuse is clear, and several vendors are now offering solutions. Those from Astaro and SmoothWall are among the very best.

Effective content filtering protection does not have to cost a fortune, but steer clear of cheap alternatives that will deliver extremely porous and inadequate web security.

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