My friend has recently asked me to network his home for him. He gave me an unlimited budget to work with (really, really, really big kid-in-a-candy-store grin), but of course I still want to give him the most for his money.
Part of what he wants is a web filtering solution for his kids. He doesnt want a solution that resides on each individual PC. For one thing, he's got 4 kids, so that would be sort of a pain to manage. Plus his kids are getting good with computers, especially his son, and he is worried about them being able to disable it. He would really like more of a network-proxy solution. I've done this a lot for businesses, so I'm familiar with offerings like Websense, N2H2, SmartFilter, SurfControl, etc. I wanted to see if anyone here would recommend something a little cheaper than the above...say less than $1000.
It must meet the following criteria:
1) Be easy for him to get into and change permissions, view logs, etc. He's not a computer genius.
2) It can run on it's own server, on an appliance, or on an ISA/Linux gateway if need be.
The following products are ones that I'm currently looking into:
TrendMicro Interscan VirusWall, SMB Edition
SnapGear's builtin Content Filtering Solution
CyberSitter for Businesses (Proxy solution)
Censornet
I've looked at Squid, but it looks like it's got a fairly indepth scripting language. Is that wrong?
Does anyone have any recommendations?
Part of what he wants is a web filtering solution for his kids. He doesnt want a solution that resides on each individual PC. For one thing, he's got 4 kids, so that would be sort of a pain to manage. Plus his kids are getting good with computers, especially his son, and he is worried about them being able to disable it. He would really like more of a network-proxy solution. I've done this a lot for businesses, so I'm familiar with offerings like Websense, N2H2, SmartFilter, SurfControl, etc. I wanted to see if anyone here would recommend something a little cheaper than the above...say less than $1000.
It must meet the following criteria:
1) Be easy for him to get into and change permissions, view logs, etc. He's not a computer genius.
2) It can run on it's own server, on an appliance, or on an ISA/Linux gateway if need be.
The following products are ones that I'm currently looking into:
TrendMicro Interscan VirusWall, SMB Edition
SnapGear's builtin Content Filtering Solution
CyberSitter for Businesses (Proxy solution)
Censornet
I've looked at Squid, but it looks like it's got a fairly indepth scripting language. Is that wrong?
Does anyone have any recommendations?
