MIMEsweeper for Web provides the best content analysis available for all traffic going through the HTTP gateway.

But adding a powerful URL Filter on top of the content analysis engine gives you the most effective protection against all threats, known and unknown.

From sex to search engines, the Clearswift URL database covers every conceivable subject matter that could be of harm to your business. The 40 root categories are:

Adult/sexually explicit	Hacking	Religion
Advertisements	Hate	Remote Proxies
Arts & Entertainment	Health & Medicine	Sex education
Chat	Hobbies & Recreation	Search engines
Computing & Internet	Hosting Sites	Shopping
Criminal Skills	Job Search & Career Development	Sports
Drugs, Alcohol & Tobacco	Kid's Sites	Streaming media
Education	Lifestyle & Culture	Travel
Finance & Investment	Motor Vehicles	Usenet News/Forums
Food & Drink	News	Violence/Offensive
Gambling	Personals and dating	Weapons
Games	Photo searches	Web-based email
Glamour & Intimate Apparel	Real estate
Government & Politics	Reference

The URL Filter is an optional plug-in to the MIMEsweeper for Web solution that blocks web access to websites blacklisted by your security policy.

When a page is requested, MIMEsweeper identifies the user and their web access privileges. The requested URL is then checked against the blacklist appropriate to that user. If the site is blacklisted, the transfer is blocked. If you prefer, the user is notified and an administrator alerted.

All activity, blocked and allowed, is recorded for in-depth reporting to analyse web usage and traffic patterns.

Key Features

• Comprehensive – The URL database behind the filter is the most comprehensive on the market, with over a billion web pages and 6.3 million URLs.
• Policy-friendly – The URLs are organised into 40 categories and 130 subtopics – everything from pornography to webmail to job search – so you can tune your security policy with extreme precision.
• Global – Covers sites across over 200 countries in more than 65 languages.
• Updated daily by 40 full-time researchers. More than 35,000 new URLs are added each week and out-of-date URLs are culled.
• Flexible – Set access duration or file size thresholds; time-sensitive filtering can allow out-of-hours or lunchtime surfing; customise any way your policy dictates.