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| Tangent Announces Web Hawk
Affordable Internet Content Filtering to Monitor Internet Usage and Increase Employee Productivity |
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Burlingame,
CA — January 24, 2006 -
Tangent, Inc., a leading security solutions company, today announced Web Hawk, an affordable Internet content monitoring and filtering solution that helps administrators effectively manage network Internet traffic.
Web Hawk solutions start for less than $1,000 and contain the features and benefits offered by other Internet filtering solutions that cost thousands more. Web Hawk is available direct from Tangent at www.tangent.com/webhawk.
Web Hawk makes it easy for administrators to control Internet usage in real time. There are 9.5 million unique domains categorized in its destinations database to ensure effective control and /monitoring of access to Web sites.
Rules-based access lets administrators monitor and filter sites with adult-oriented, racially sensitive, harmful, or material with legal liability. Web Hawk can be customized to an organizations unique environment to enforce its Internet Access Policy (IAP) and to ensure CIPA (Child Internet Protection Act) compliancy.
Web Hawk's modular design lets administrators deploy monitors throughout the network and manage them from one central console. Flexible reporting shows traffic flows in and out of the network, who is accessing what, and how network bandwidth is being utilized.
Features include: easy installation, flexible rules, comprehensive monitoring, page level blocking, email alert notifications, automated task schedulers to eliminate day-to-day administration, real-time Internet traffic / bandwidth utilization reporting.
Web Hawk can reside on any central network server and consists of three software components – monitors, management console and central database.
Monitors inspect Internet traffic on the local network, log traffic data and enforce the IAP established by organization. The management console is used to configure the network monitors, manage users, set up rules to enforce the IAP and create reports. The central database collects log data and configuration parameters and houses a copy of the destinations database.
Web Hawk supports Windows NT 4.0 SP6; Windows 2000 SP2 (or higher) operating systems; Windows XP SP1; Windows 2003; and Internet Explorer 5.01 or higher.
Hardware requirements are a 1.0 GHZ or faster processor; 512 MB RAM; 12 GB free hard disk space, and a CD-ROM drive.
About Tangent Inc. Founded in 1989, Tangent has 16 years experience delivering technology solutions to education, government and corporate Tangent is a leading provider of technology solutions to Education, Government, and Corporations worldwide. Solutions include Spam filtering, Internet Content Filtering and Spyware protection. Products include wireless labs, desktops, notebooks, servers and storage. Tangent customers include more than 350 universities, 2,490 schools, 430 government agencies and corporations.
For more information,
contact Mike Zabaneh, 650-342-9388 ext. 2126,
or email mikez@tangent.com.
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