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RE: Open Source Web Content/URL Filter


From: "Murda Mcloud" <murdamcloud () bigpond com>
Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2008 10:00:04 +1000

Or squid and dans guardian.


-----Original Message-----
From: listbounce () securityfocus com [mailto:listbounce () securityfocus com]
On Behalf Of Morgan Reed
Sent: Wednesday, December 10, 2008 12:29 PM
To: vaporad () live com
Cc: security-basics () securityfocus com
Subject: Re: Open Source Web Content/URL Filter

On Wed, Oct 1, 2008 at 4:00 AM,  <vaporad () live com> wrote:
My company is looking into open source alternatives to our Websense
application.  The application would need to be AD aware and have
transparent authentication.  Does anyone have any experience with a open
source web content/url filters?

It's pretty easy to get Squid to Authenticate against AD is fairly
simple, from there use SquidGuard or UFDBGuard (it's a fork of
SquidGuard that is much faster) for the actual filtering.


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