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| Growing demand for Internet protection SCOTTS VALLEY, Calif., Feb. 9 -- SurfControl, the worldleading provider of Internet content protection, today announced it ismanaging one billion daily filtering requests from customers using thecompany's industry-leading content protection databases."Internet content protection is mission-critical functionality in aWeb-enabled world, " said Patricia Sueltz , SurfControl CEO. "Contentprotection is mainstream. You simply can't risk going online without havingit. Our mission is to protect everyone from our children doing their homeworkto employees in the workplace." Content protection is increasingly offered through a number of deliveryplatforms including Internet service providers (ISPs), portals, firewalls andWeb filtering-specific solutions. These solutions are addressing risksincluding malicious Web site, spam, phishing, spyware, compliance, confidentiality, malware and a host of emerging Internet threats. But muchlike the anti-virus world, the filtering data embedded in these offeringscomes from only a few providers. No matter the caliber of the product, thesolutions are only as effective as the data they are using. "The industry recognizes that it takes time and expertise to build, maintain and manage content protection databases, " Sueltz said. "It's not theproducts that identify the Internet threats, it's the real-time contentdatabases that do all the hard work." Over the past decade, SurfControl has established itself as the leadingprovider of Internet content protection. Through broad industry relationshipswith more than 80 OEM and technology partnerships, as well as through our ownSurfControl Enterprise Protection Suite, SurfControl meets the evolving needsof the marketplace through its technical expertise and content depth. write your comments about the article :: © 2006 Networking News :: home page |