SafeSquid
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| SafeSquid: Content Filtering Internet Proxy | |
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| Developed by | Office Efficiencies (India) Private Limited |
| Latest release | 4.2.1 [7] / 24 October 2007 |
| OS | Linux, Kernel 2.6 |
| Genre | Proxy, Content filtering, Censorware |
| License | Proprietary |
| Website | http://www.safesquid.com/ |
SafeSquid,[1] basically is a Content Filtering HTTP 1.1 Proxy. SafeSquid helps in distributing Internet access across computer network, while providing Total Content Control & Total Access Control. SafeSquid ensures that the Internet usage is always as per an Acceptable Internet Use Policy. SafeSquid's granular Content filtering features provides security to ensure that the Internet usage is not abused or misused. The various aspects of real-time content analysis and modification are a part of SafeSquid's intrinsic architecture. It is therefore very robust, and can handle thousands of concurrent requests, while performing complex content filtering, in real-time. SafeSquid's Profiles feature allows you to accommodate the demands of extremely granular rules for Internet access privileges and restrictions.
[edit] Features [2]
[edit] Multi-network HTTP 1.1/Proxy
- Supports HTTPS
- Supports FTP
- Reverse Proxy
[edit] Chains with other Proxy or Firewall
[edit] Authentication
- PAM-aware
[edit] Enhanced Surfing
- Content Caching
- Content Pre-Fetching
[edit] Profiled Internet Access
- Re-programmable PCRE based Logic
[edit] Enterprise Wide Management
- Re-configurable Deployment Architecture
- Cluster Ready
- Browser-based behavior analysis
- Enterprise-Wide Multi-Proxy Configuration
- Browser-based GUI
[edit] Bandwidth Management
[edit] Content Filtering
- Categorized Web-site Databases (URL Blacklist)
- Allow or Deny access to content from a web-sites listed under a specific category like porn, jobsearch, games, entertainment, etc.
- DNS Blacklist querying
- Deny access to content served from malafide servers.
- MIME-Filtering
- Allow or Deny access to content based on their Mime-Type or File-name extensions.
- Cookie Filtering
- Allow or deny exchange of cookie to or from a particular Domain, depending on Cookie's - Domain Attribute, Path Attribute, Expiry time ( year, month, hour, minute), Direction - Attributes (Inbound, Outbound)
- Header Filtering
- Allows you to control what headers are passed from your browser to websites. Also has an insert action which will add a new header onto the ones sent by your browser.
- Programmable Logic for Real-Time Content Analysis
- Real-Time Pornographic Image Filtering
- Analyzes images in real-time and blocks the ones that are pornographic in nature.
- Programmable Logic for URL Filtering
- Allow or Deny access to content from a particular URL, depending on Hostname, I.P. Address, file name.
[edit] Redundant level Content Security
- Programmable Real-Time Content Re-Write
- Client For Anti Virus Daemons like -
- Universal ICAP Client
- External Parser to process content with third-party software
- SDK to enhance features, or build new Filter Clients
[edit] Customizable Log Reports
[edit] Programmable Custom Templates
[edit] References
[edit] External links
- Technical Overview
- Functional Overview
- Documentation - Also check 'Training Videos' here
- Support Forum
- Downloads page
- Compatible Software
- Installation instructions
