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Evaluating a URL Database and Classification Technologies for DNS and Web Filtering

DNS Filtering, URL Database, Web Filtering & Parental ControlsBy zvelo February 20, 2019

This blog explores considerations and criteria for evaluating a URL database or classification technology partner that shares your commitment to success. We’ve outlined the important considerations and criteria for performing an evaluation of web filtering technologies. Protection, coverage, and accuracy are most important—but we’ll also show you how to prepare test URLs so that you can confidently compare multiple solutions and save time.

The Web Filtering Value Curve

DNS Filtering, Technology & Insights, URL Database, Web Filtering & Parental ControlsBy zvelo February 18, 2019

The purpose of this article is to provide a quick and easy visual reference the web filtering market segments and to identify where various services are positioned in the market and on the value curve.

Categorizing 99.9% of the ActiveWeb with a Hybrid AI/ML Approach

AI & Machine Learning, Cybersecurity, Internet Safety & Privacy, Malicious Detection, Technology & Insights, URL Database, Web Filtering & Parental ControlsBy zvelo December 7, 2018

Learn about zvelo’s unique hybrid approach to web content categorization and malicious detection. With over 20 years of experience and partnerships with some of the world’s leading anti-virus, MSSPs, and communications companies—zvelo’s next-generation approach achieves industry-leading coverage and accuracy for end users worldwide.

Internet Censorship in the 21st Century

Internet Safety & Privacy, Technology & InsightsBy zvelo October 9, 2018

As a web content categorization company, we are intensely focused on the trends in the types of content being published on the web, how this content is accessed, used and shared, who is publishing the content, and hundreds of other details that goes into our efforts to provide the market’s best web categorization services.

Network Security, Malicious Threats, and Common Computer Definitions

Cybersecurity, Internet Safety & Privacy, Malicious Detection, Technology & InsightsBy zvelo October 5, 2018

We’ve put together this glossary of cyber threat definitions as a resource for you in your quest to help make the internet a safer place for all!

Secret to the Market’s Most Accurate and Comprehensive Web Categorization Service

AI & Machine Learning, Content Categorization, Cybersecurity, Internet Safety & Privacy, Malicious Detection, Network Security, Technology & Insights, URL Categorization Database, URL Database, Web Filtering & Parental ControlsBy zvelo October 3, 2018

Over many years or testing, trial and error, zvelo ultimately determined that a human-machine “hybrid” approach to classification produced the best outcomes. The Human element provided the verifications necessary for the highest levels of accuracy, while machines (ie. AI/ML models and calculations) provided the scaling necessary to deal with the incredible volumes of new URLs and content being published at an increasing rate.

Base Domain URL vs. Full Path URL. What’s the Difference?

Content Categorization, Contextual Targeting, Cybersecurity, Network Security, URL Database, Web Filtering & Parental ControlsBy zvelo August 29, 2018

For the average web surfer, the URL bar provides a magical portal to the interwebz where anything that can be thought of can be entered—revealing the treasures of the internet at the stroke of ‘enter’. For the rest of us, we know it gets much more complicated than that as we slip down the rabbit hole and into OSI, DNS, TLS, HTTPS, subdomains…

Explaining zvelo Contextual Categorization

AI & Machine Learning, URL DatabaseBy zvelo January 30, 2015

The URL checker found on the zvelo.com homepage, previously known as the “Test-a-site” tool, serves to demo various contextual categorizations about URLs that can be derived by licensing zvelo contextual categorization and malicious website detection services. When queried, the URL checker yields a sample of data sets stored within the zvelo URL database, via…

To WWW or Not to WWW? – zvelo categorization

Cybersecurity, Internet Safety & Privacy, URL DatabaseBy Lou Nabarrete June 27, 2014

If one performs the search “use www or not,” well over a billion results in many of the most popular search engines are returned. The focus of each result may differ. For zvelo, the usage is irrelevant because its contextual categorization processes are designed to identify and handle each component of a URL. At a simplistic view, the basic components of a URL are the following:

Dynamic Website Categorization, 2013

Cybersecurity, URL Database, Web Filtering & Parental ControlsBy Patrick Edward Penetrante January 5, 2014

Anatomy of a Dynamic Website Of the hundreds of billions of URL queries zvelo has received for website categorization in 2013, an estimated 27% have been classified as being dynamic (see image 1). Dynamic categories in this data sample included Social Networking, News, Search Engines, Personal Pages & Blogs, Community Forums, Technology (General), and Chat.…