SafeSquid Business Edition

Software Description

SafeSquid Business Edition is Content Filter Web Proxy Server for Windows. It has a Browser based interface. SafeSquid offers arguably, worlds biggest set of Content Filtering features.

SafeSquid lets you create unlimited and extremely granular Internet Policies to define and deal with unlimited number of unique factors depending upon user, network, web-site, mime-type, size, and time.

SafeSquid allows you to create unlimited number of policies for allowing or blocking specific content, like music, ActiveX, JavaScripts, advertisement banners, and even any part of the protocol header to ensure graded exchange of private information, from each web-site.

Key features:

- Simple text based installation script, that can be modified as per individual requirements.

- Browser based interface - that, requires no additional download of applets or any other browser specific components.

- Convenient Tool-Tips on the browser-based interface that describe, the functions of every feature.

- Multi-format Log reports, FireWall format - to describing the SafeSquid Transactions, Squid Access Log format - detailing the users and their applications. Extended log format - detailing the users, applications and security breaches.

- Ready to use templates for Access / Content control.

- Ready to use config files for compatible log analysers and reporting tools like SARG, Calamaris, Squint, and many others.

- Easy attaching of any third-party software executables to process requests and responses.

- Password protected browser-based interface for managing the system, viewing transactions in real-time, and reviewing system performance.

- Multiple administrators can be assigned the task of managing the rules.

- Unlimited unique department profiles based on I.P. addresses and/or username.

- Time-based global or departmental rules for access to content.

- Time based application profiles to define unique allow / deny actions depending upon departments, web-sites, nature of content, etc.

- Unlimited rules to set limits for speed / data transfer, for each department or application.

- XML based data-file to store and back-up configuration.

- Enterprise-wide enforcement of rules on multiple proxy servers by using a unique Master-Slave installation.

- Fully PCRE compatible system for creation of easily editable default rules.

- Unique browser based URL Commands to analyse the application of profiles and nature of request and response.

- Easily customisable templates that replace denied or inaccessible content.

- Automatically produces appropriate WPAD compatible proxy.pac

- Pre-fetching accelerates loading of web-content.

- Selectively apply filter bypassing for any application.

- Use applications that supports use of HTTP 1.1 proxy.

- DNS Cache to reduce latency when you visit popular web-sites.

- Only users with a user / password, will be able to access the Internet.

- The administrators can very easily identify and analyse the Internet usage of each individual user.

- Spy-ware & Trojans will not be able to access the Internet.

- Intrinsic PAM client ensures natural compatibility for using different mechanisms of authentication like Windows Domain, SQL Databases, POP3 email servers, Flat files etc.

- A two-tier, fully-manageable, MD5 encrypted, content cache to serve the more popular content very quickly.

- Readily connects to one or more virus scanners like ClamAV, F-Prot, Kaspersky, Sophos, Avast, etc

- Built-in ICAP client to quickly connect to any existing - ICAP based content security software like Symantec, Trend-Micro, Dr. Web, etc.

- Built-in Document Re-write sanitises the web-sites to remove pop-ups, ActiveX controls and stops spyware.

- Fully configurable document analyser, to block web-sites or pages, based on the nature of content.

- Fully configurable image analyser, to block pornographic images.

- Time-based global or departmental rules for access to specified content

- Has advanced features like ICP / CARP to connect to external web-caches.

- Forwarding with Authentication allows you to optionally place SafeSquid behind any authenticating Firewall that requires username / domain / password based authentication

- Selectively Bind outgoing requests to different I.P addresses.

- Programmable Headers allow you to protect your privacy.

- Perpetual Server based licenses with no user-limits / time based expiration.

- Trained technicians to evaluate your enterprise requirements.

- Total support for system optimisation.

- Low-cost of management

- Compatible with a variety of third-party / open-source software.

- Freely distributed SafeSquid SDK allows everybody to create feature enhancements.

The multi-threaded architecture brings to SafeSquid, some unique features like Pre-fetching. Pre-fetching can dramatically improve the browsing experience. When your users request a web-page, SafeSquid analyses it for embedded links like style sheets, images, etc. and starts fetching them, before your user's browser receives the page, analyses it, and makes the request for the embedded components.

Most sluggishness or latency will be induced due to constituent processes, which necessarily have to be undertaken serially or sequentially, for example DNS resolution. SafeSquid has a DNS Cache, that can hold up to 8110 records for a maximum of 360 seconds. However a fast connectivity to a DNS Server can be quite useful.

SafeSquid has a two-tier content-cache. You can configure SafeSquid to use a part of the RAM as cache, besides traditional hard-disk, or use ICP to connect to remote web-caches. Naturally, therefore you should experience better performance with higher RAM. However specifying smaller file sizes like 65536 bytes or a few multiples, of this value for being served through RAM cache, should deliver improved stability. However you must carefully configure SafeSquid to evict content from RAM Cache to maintain system stability.

Content that needs, to be processed, is buffered in memory until it is completely downloaded. If it has to be processed with virus scanners or other programs, it is stored in the temporary directory as specified in the SafeSquid Configuration. If RAM is not a constraint, performance can be boosted, if the temporary directory is set on a RAM-DISK. To improve performance, reduce the size and types of the files that must be buffered (and thus, processed).

SafeSquid uses auth and account directives in its PAM configuration. You could easily stack multiple PAM modules to authenticate from more than one authentication systems. Using the password caching feature of SafeSquid, to build text-files for use with pam_pwdfile can hugely reduce the load on the remote authenticating systems like POP3 servers, Domain Controllers, SQL databases, etc, if pam_pwdfile is set to the top of the stack. System performance and security can be further improved by setting the path to cached text file on a RAM-DISK.

SafeSquid can generate a lot of disk I/O while producing the log-files. System stability can be increased if the log-files are built on a RAM-DISK. You could then use utilities like log-rotate to ensure that the size of log-files do not exceed the space allocated on the RAM-DISK.

Using UNIX sockets wherever possible, instead of TCP/IP sockets is surely advisable. Communication over Unix Sockets is much faster and can quite improve performance when the content has to be processed by virus scanners.

In large environments, using master-slave deployments and forwarding is more advisable, to deliver higher stability. Clustering is another good option.

The latest versions are released only after comprehensive testing on contemporary Distributions of various Operating Systems. The CPU and RAM requirements depend upon the Internet & LAN Connection Speeds, acceptable latencies, number of concurrent users, complexity of the employed users, complexity of the employed rules, number of desired connection threads, third-party security software like antivirus, URL Databases, etc.

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