Information for managers about internet filters

The best URL database and internet filter
for higher productivity & less bandwidth usage

Employee productivity increases

Employees with internet access spend each day an average of 30 minutes using the internet for personal interests (Ernst & Young). An internet filter blocks sites that contain adult material, chat, webmail, sports, news, advertisements, shops, and other matters of private interests.

The average productivity increase per employee is 30 minutes per day × 200 days × $30/hour = $ 3,000 per year per employee.
The ROI calculator shows that in most cases the return on investment is less than 1 week.

Infrastructure costs decreases

By filtering access to the internet, less internet traffic is generated and hence less bandwidth is required. The consumption of bandwidth may decrease by 40 percent because the websites that focus on consumers have a large number of bandwidth consuming advertisements. In addition, finance, webmail, game, sport and news sites are popular websites that are visited under working hours.

Enhanced security

The https protocol is encrypted and designed for secure online transactions. Unfortunately, the https protocol is a security risk since anybody can type "proxy tunnel" in Google and find out how to transfer data to and from any system on the internet bypassing firewalls and web proxy security measurements.
ufdbGuard has a unique protection mechanism that detects abuse of the https protocol and blocks all unauthorised transfer of data with these so-called proxy tunnels.

Legal risks decrease

With URLfilterDB you have less exposure to legal liability arising from copyright breaches and potential sexual harassment issues.

What we focus on

We focus on consumer websites which is what employees visit for personal interest and do not try to block sites that may be used for daily business. We have an agressive policy to detect and block all known proxy tunnels.

Try it ! The internet filter is fully functional and has an additional test mode that shows which sites can be blocked without actually blocking them.

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