Carriers and ISPs

Internet Filtering for Telecommunication Companies and ISPs can be divided into two main requirements:

1. Compliance filtering to comply with government directives or laws, and

2. Value-Added Security to provide customers with a safer or more secure internet experience.

  Although one technology can address both these requirements, in order to implement these in the best and most cost-effective manner we recommend the use of different technologies and strategies for each one.

Compliance Filtering

Many governments around the world are looking at implementing internet filtering technologies to address two main issues:
1.    Child Sexual Abuse (CSA) web content hosted outside of their country being accessed by people within their country
2.    Content hosted within their country that could cause civil unrest such as hateful content on social networks targeting specific racial, religious or political groups

Watchdog International are experts in this field and can provide the best-of-breed technologies to ensure that you can comply with the government’s requirements.  Our leading technologies can ensure the following:
•    Internet performance is not affected by our systems
•    One central installation can filter multiple locations (or points of presence) across the country
•    It is very easy for an ISP to set up the system to ensure all of its customers are filtered
•    The systems scale to cover millions of customers and are cost-effective.

Contact us to find out more about how we can help you comply.

Value-Added Security for your Customers

Profit margins for ISPs services are increasingly becoming eroded and customer ‘churn’ is a real problem in today’s ISP markets as internet services become more commoditised, especially for smaller ISPs that do not offer a full range of telecommunication services.  For this reason telco’s and ISPs are looking at ways of adding value to their services and increasing customer ‘stickiness’.  Value-added security is an ideal way to do this.  Customer’s security requirements are increasing as well as the complexity of managing end-point security with the proliferation of viruses and malware on the internet today.  It is attractive to them if their ISP can look after this for them by giving them a ‘clean pipe’ where their anti-virus and malware is filtered for them.

 
Many internet users want to ‘tailor’ their internet to suit their own requirements and to do this web filtering is an important requirement.  Families with children and schools who wish to block pornography and other inappropriate content, as well as employers who wish to block access to non-work related content such as eBay, are examples of customers requiring this.

Watchdog International can provide ISPs and telco’s with the technologies to enable them to offer these value-added security services to their customers.   Highlights of our solutions include the following:
•    Integration with DPI systems such as Sandvine and Cisco SCE
•    Highly scalable and redundant with no affect on network speeds
•    Multi-tenanted solution including web filtering, AV, anti-spam, anti-phishing, anti-spyware, firewall and IDS/IPS
•    Each user gets their own control panel to manage their service, greatly reducing administration
•    Integration with billing and authentication systems

 Contact us for more information on this.