Clearswift delivers the capabilities for organisations to protect themselves against email and web-based threats, meet legal and regulatory requirements, implement productivity-saving policies and manage intellectual property passing through their network. The company's expertise lies in establishing and enforcing e-policies. Content security threats include the circulation of inappropriate images and text, Spam and oversize files, loss and corruption of data, breaches of confidentiality, as well as viruses and malicious code.

Clearswift's complementary products include Clearswift MIMEsweeper. Clearswift MIMEsweeper (MSW) is the world's leading family of products designed to implement email and web communications e-policies. MIMEsweeper runs on Windows and has been designed to be feature-rich, customisable and distributed through indirect sales channels.

Course description

MIMEsweeper for Web 5.0 is an instructor-led course providing you with the skills and knowledge required to deploy MIMEsweeper for Web in large organisations, to fine-tune configurations and perform troubleshooting and support tasks. This is a practical course where you have opportunity to complete troubleshooting and advanced configuration tasks.

Who should attend

This course is designed for anyone who is responsible for installing, configuring, supporting and managing a content security solution to regulate access to the worldwide web.

Pre-requisites

Min: Microsoft Windows 2000, TCP/IP Networking, Web server technologies.

Attendance of the MIMEsweeper for Web 5.0 Configuration & Management course or comparable practical experience.

Topics covered

Configuration and management topics:

• Overview – Key features and benefits
• Architecture – How MIMEsweeper for Web processes HTTP, HTTPS and passive FTP
• Installation – Install and deploy the product, network topology, licensing and services control
• Securing your configuration – Preparing for policy configuration, browser and proxy configuration
• Policy configuration – Policy principles and practice, a guide to developing and implementing policy

Advanced topics:

• Overview – Key features and benefits
• Deployment – Clustering, load-balancing and failover. How to deploy MIMEsweeper for Web for optimum performance and scalability across multiple hosts
• Configuration – Client authentication, configuring the cache, runtime statistics and auditing information
• Advanced Policy – Detailed formulation of a web content analysis policy including policy evaluation order, scenario folders and sub-folders
• Reporting – Configure a range of web-based reports covering various aspects of system usage
• Troubleshooting – Practical problem-solving including diagnosis and resolution of proxy and browser related problems