Comsift Paradigm Shift

Tuesday, March 6th, 2012

You may have received email from Comsift, and we wanted to make you aware of the implications. If you have a Comsift Internet content filter and if you subscribe to the update service for it, Comsift has decided to make an important change which may affect you. Until now, they have blocked many Websites where individual [...]

What’s Involved in Publishing a Website?

Sunday, June 12th, 2011

So you want to publish a Website, eh? The end result you see on your screen when you type a Website address into your browser actually requires a lot of components, and unless you’re planning to hand the whole project over to someone to handle for you, you’ll need to bring those pieces together yourself. [...]

Network Security: Internet Content Filtering Primer

Saturday, July 11th, 2009

Lots of companies employ some sort of Internet firewall, but schools have a unique obligation to provide more extensive Internet content filtering on their student-use workstations. Content filtering can be applied in a variety of methodologies, and most content filtering technologies use a combination of multiple methodologies. Content filtering may be used to block access to pornography, games, shopping, advertising, email/chat, or file transfers, or to Websites that provide information about hatred/intolerance, weapons, drugs, gambling, etc.

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