What is the source of the URL filtering data? How do you ensure broad relevant coverage?
GlobalView URLF uses a combination of data center infrastructure (the GlobalView Network) and a wide range of data sources, to maintain a database with comprehensive URL coverage and high categorization accuracy. Extensive coverage for relevant productivity and compliance categories is ensured by combining a range of sources and focused analysis: Open traffic collectors around the world provide real-time global insights into user browsing behavior. User browser requests are collected and used as triggers for analysis of what customers actually need. Web trends and patterns are gathered from various Internet sources. Extensive coverage for real time security is ensured by combining the following sources: Recurrent Pattern detection (RPD) – Commtouch’s mass-email filtering technology collects URLs found in bulk emails for analysis – these URLs often point to malware infected, spam or phishing sites. Billions of email messages are analyzed daily providing a vast source of real-time data.
