1. Cloud Web Filtering Platform
Ideal for MSP, ISP and service providers
Presented by:
Tim Lloyd
Tel: x 1

2. What is it ? SaaS web filtering solution www.cloudwebfiltering.com
Multi-tenant architecture
White label ready
Standards based / Easy integration (RESTful API)
Internet Content Adaption Protocol (ICAP)
Low bandwidth overhead / Low latency experience

3. Key components of the platform
Policy enforcement and arbitration, URL categorisation, scheduling, raw log file collection
ICAP Server
Log file post-processing, optimisation, data aggregation
Log processor
Web based application for customers to configure and manage the web filtering service (Rich Internet Application)
Portal
Standards based REST API for integrating 3rd party applications / web applications with the platform
RESTful API
Windows software installed on the end-user computer to enable native ICAP communication with the platform, for increased speed, latency and reduced bandwidth overhead
Cloud Link client software

4. Example topology

5. The ICAP advantage
Open standards – compliant with 3rd party cache engines / IDS servers / Routers
Scalable – multiple ICAP servers to service requests & responses from single cache
More efficient than HTTP proxying
Special “Preview” and “204 responses” designed to reduce traffic/bandwidth

6. Performance
Each ICAP instance with 1 CPU core can handle up to 10,000 persistent connections
User lookup cache can handle hundreds of thousands of different users
URL categorisation ~50,000 transactions per second (2.5GHz x64 AMD core)

7. Centralised management
Cloudwebfiltering.com web control panel can be branded to suit your business

8. Cloud Link client Small footprint, runs as background service
“Single sign on” identifies users as they browse
Simple to install (MSI package)
Tray app for easy configuration or command line tool for scripting
“Fail open” option
Local bypass of hosts and applications

9. RESTful API Develop your own portal Integrate into an existing portal
Use the service in different and unique ways
HTTP based API
JSON format
Ideal for use with ExtJS, Jquery, etc

10. Thank you Any questions?