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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.

Delivering Real-Time Protection For Malicious, Phishing, and Objectionable URLs

Cybersecurity, DNS Filtering, Malicious Detection, Phishing Detection, URL DatabaseBy zvelo February 14, 2019

In this blog, we explore the category updates that require real-time protection as well as how we deliver instant updates to URL databases worldwide.

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.

Using DNS RPZ to Protect Against Malicious Threats

Cybersecurity, DNS Filtering, Internet Safety & Privacy, Malicious Detection, Network Security, URL Categorization Database, URL Database, Web Filtering & Parental ControlsBy zvelo September 26, 2018

As discussed in a previous blog, DNS RPZ provides IT teams and network administrators with a “DNS configuration layer”, or rewrite module, to effectively handle DNS responses with the open source domain name system software, BIND.

Advantages of RPZ: Basics & Common Configurations

Content Categorization, Cybersecurity, DNS Filtering, Malicious Detection, Network Security, Technology & Insights, URL Categorization Database, URL Database, Web Filtering & Parental ControlsBy zvelo September 12, 2018

Since the release of BIND 9 in 2010, RPZ has proven a powerful technology for security and network management—allowing organizations to implement an additional DNS configuration layer. In fact, BIND is the most widely used Domain Name System software on the internet—making RPZ configuration options like integrating commercial feeds, blocklists, and URL databases like zveloDB™ all the more attractive. So let’s take a moment to revisit the advantages of RPZ.

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…