What drives organizational web filtering?
Network administrators and businesses install web filtering on networks for a variety of reasons ranging from compliance and legal requirements to worker productivity issues. To gain some insight, zvelo surveyed network administrators, customers, readers, and security professionals to identify the most important drivers behind web filtering.
According to the results of the survey below, the primary purposes for web filtering in an organization are:
- to block access to phishing and malicious websites
- prevent harassment lawsuits and liability issues
- tackle productivity issues
- compliance or legal mandate
- morality & values/child protection
Author: zvelo
https://zvelo.com/about/Making the Internet Safer and More Secure. zvelo provides industry-leading cyber threat intelligence and URL classification data services. zvelo’s proprietary AI-based threat detection and categorization technologies, combines curated domains, threat and other data feeds, with the clickstream traffic from its global partner network of 1 billion users and endpoints to provide unmatched visibility, coverage, reach and accuracy. zvelo powers applications and solutions for the world's leading providers of web filtering, endpoint detection and response (EDR), extended detection and response (XDR), Secure Access Service Edge (SASE), brand safety and contextual targeting, cyber threat intelligence platforms, threat analysis, and more.
