Overview

GFI WebMonitor is a utility for Microsoft ISA Server that allows you to monitor the sites users are browsing and what files they are downloading – in REAL TIME. In addition it can block access to adult sites as well as performing anti-virus scanning on all downloads. GFI WebMonitor is the perfect solution to transparently exercise a degree of access control over users’ browsing habits and ensure legal compliance – in a manner that will not alienate your network users!

You benefit from:

• Control your Internet users’ browsing habits and monitor downloads in real-time.
• Internet access control through web categorization and web filtering.
• Protect network from viruses, spyware, malware and phishing attacks.
• Increase productivity by controlling your employees' web browsing habits.
• Protect the network from dangerous downloads in real-time.
• Reduce cyber slacking – time wasted by employees online.
• Prevent data leakage through socially-engineered websites.
• Benefit from multiple scanning engines to ensure that downloads are free of viruses and other malware.

Features

Companies must excercise some control over users' web browsing habits - not only to ensure productive use of the Internet but also to safeguard users from adult sites and to ensure that downloads are virus free. The traditional full-blown web proxy filters are cumbersome to install/administer and expensive to buy, while log file analyzers are akward to use and do not allow for real-time monitoring and blocking. GFI WebMonitor offers the following features:

• Monitor or block a connection in real-time.
• Monitor or block applications' hidden downloads.
• Monitor bandwidth.
• Allow exceptions through whitelist and blacklists.
• Controlled access to the configuration and monitoring interfaces.
• WebGrade Database.
• Time-based filtering.
• Anti-phishing.
• Mitigate legal liability.
• Scan downloaded files with multiple anti-virus engines.
• Anti-virus protection through Norman Virus Control and BitDefender.
• Malware (trojans, spyware, etc) blocking via Kaspersky - optional.
• Protect against socially engineered phishing websites.
• Control which file types users can download.

Benefits

GFI WebMonitor can bring many benefits for your organisation such as:

• Increases productivity by controlling your employees' web browsing habits.
• Protect the network from dangerous downloads in real-time.
• Reduce cyber slacking - time wasted by employees online.
• Prevent data leakage through socially-engineered websites.
• Benefit from multiple scanning engines to ensure that downloads are free of virus and other malware.

Awards

GFI WebMonitor has been used and reviewed by many corporations. Below are some of the awards held by GFI WebMonitor.

• WindowsNetworking.com
  GFI WebMonitor wins award in Monitoring & Management solution category – GFI WebMonitor has been selected the winner in the Monitoring & Management solution category of the ISAserver.org Readers’ Choice Awards, organised by the leading Microsoft ISA Server resource site. The award serves as a mark of excellence, providing the ultimate recognition from peers within the industry.- ISAserver.org, October 2007

• WindowsNetworking.com
  Excellent value solution – In a review of GFI WebMonitor, Tarek Majdalani describes the product as "solid, easy to use, well documented and well supported" and gives it 4.5 stars out of 5. He says it provides the perfect balance between best-of-breed security protection and ease of use, as well as being light on system resources. Priced at the low end of the spectrum, Majdalani said it is "excellent value for organisations of just about any size". Concluding, he recommends GFI WebMonitor for "its performance, feature set, cost and ease of use".- Elmajdal.net, September 2007

• WindowsNetworking.com
  4.5 out of 5 for GFI WebMonitor – In a review on About.com, Ryan Groom says GFI WebMonitor "lives up to being one of those tools" to control users’ browsing activities and to protect the network against viruses and malware. He praises the product’s ease of installation and use, adding that it "is an excellent addition to any ISA installation. The control and knowledge that an administrator can glean from using the tool is definitely worth the price tag for the peace of mind it affords". He concludes with a recommendation: "If you have ISA 2006, get GFI WebMonitor for ISA."- BizSecurity.about.com, September 2007

• WindowsNetworking.com
  GFI WebMonitor award in anti-virus category – GFI WebMonitor has been selected the second runner-up in the Anti Virus category of the ISAserver.org Readers’ Choice Awards, organised by the leading Microsoft ISA Server resource site. The award serves as a mark of excellence, providing the ultimate recognition from peers within the industry.- ISAserver.org, June 2007

• WindowsNetworking.com
  GFI WebMonitor award in access control category – GFI WebMonitor has been selected the winner for the second year running in the Access Control category of the ISAserver.org Readers’ Choice Awards, organised by the leading Microsoft ISA Server resource site. The award serves as a mark of excellence, providing the ultimate recognition from peers within the industry.- ISAserver.org, April 2007

• WindowsNetworking.com
  Web monitoring and anti-virus solution tops the Access Control category – GFI WebMonitor for ISA Server was selected by ISAserver.org readers as the first runner up in the Content Security category of the ISAserver.org Readers’ Choice Awards. - ISAserver.org, December 2006

• WindowsNetworking.com
  GFI WebMonitor voted best in Monitoring and Administration – ISAserver.org readers vote GFI WebMonitor as the winner in the Monitoring and Administration category of the ISAserver.org Readers’ Choice Awards.- ISAserver.org, October 2006

• WindowsNetworking.com
  GFI WebMonitor wins Access Control Readers’ Choice Award – ISAserver.org readers voted GFI WebMonitor for ISA Server as the winner in the Access Control category of the ISAserver.org Readers’ Choice Awards. The awards draw a huge response per category and are based entirely on the visitors’ votes.- ISAserver.org, April 2006

• WindowsNetworking.com
  Slick and easy to configure – GFI WebMonitor for ISA Server received the Silver Award from popular resource site ISAserver.org. In a review about the importance of increasing protection against exploits that take place over the web, reviewer Thomas Schinder described GFI WebMonitor for ISA Server as "one of the slickest and easiest to configure and manage solutions". The review praises the product's "useful web access and monitoring features", which include the ability to "monitor user activity in real-time", "quickly view a URL history", "block access to adult websites/domains" and "check all web and web proxy mediated FTP downloads". - ISAserver.org, January 2006

• WindowsNetworking.com
  "A must have add-on for every ISA 2000/2004 installation" – GFI WebMonitor 2 for ISA Server was described by reviewer Thomas Shinder as “a dream come true for ISA firewall administrators” since “it fills an important gap in the ISA Server 2000/2004 firewall feature set”. GFI WebMonitor 2 provides “a way to view in real-time what users are accessing on the web”. The reviewer also points out that slow Internet performance that arises from users who download large files can be stopped because the product allows for “an easy way to disconnect users who are downloading giant sized files” without having to “go through the ISA 2004 real-time log monitor” and additional steps.- ISAserver.org, July 2004

• WindowsNetworking.com
  GFI WebMonitor highlighted as exceptional product – Windows & .Net Magazine reader, Peter Vogel of Vancouver, British Columbia applauded GFI Webmonitor in the magazine's What’s Hot section. The reader uses GFI WebMonitor in a school network environment with servers handling internal Internet traffic for both students and staff, as well as about two dozen sites. Mr. Vogel stated, “The product lets me get a quick snapshot of Internet traffic on those servers. As far as I know, short of going into the ISA Server traffic logs themselves, there’s no other way to get such a snapshot in what’s essentially real-time.”- Windows & .Net Magazine, June 2004

• WindowsNetworking.com
  5-star rating for GFI WebMonitor for ISA Server – Softforall.com, a site providing high quality shareware and freeware, awarded GFI WebMonitor for ISA Server the highest possible rating of five stars.- Softforall.com, October 2003

• WindowsNetworking.com
  High score for GFI WebMonitor – Sharewareriver.com, a web-site featuring a vast collection of shareware and freeware software on the Internet, awarded GFI WebMonitor for ISA Server 4 out of 5 points.- SharewareRiver.com, September 2003

• WindowsNetworking.com
  GFI WebMonitor for ISA Server awarded – Top software distribution site FileTransit.com, which features high quality software, awarded GFI WebMonitor for ISA Server full marks, giving the product a 5-star rating.- FileTransit.com, May 2003

• WindowsNetworking.com
  Track down bandwidth hogs – "The good folks at GFI have given us yet another great tool and the best news is it's free," writes well-known reviewer Andy Goodman. "Ever wonder who's doing what on the web tying up all that bandwidth? Well here is a way for you to find out, from anywhere on the network... GFI WebMonitor for ISA installs in under a minute as a Web filter and self-configures. It does require a restart of the Web Proxy Service, however you will not need to reboot the server."- DownHome Computers, December 2002