Symantec WebFilter / Intelligence Services Reviews & Insights

Symantec WebFilter / Intelligence Servicesenables boosting our business productivity by blocking unwanted downloads, malware attacks. It also helps us making sure we are compliant with the cyber security policies that we had adopted and there is no leakages during our day to day operations.Symantec WebFilter / Intelligence Services gets updated from time to time to make sure all the recent and hidden threats are taken care of all the times.

Having an end to end solution for web / mobile applications in terms of protecting it from online cyber security threats, Symantec WebFilter / Intelligence Services provides great solution. You also get an ability to configure your security profile so that the contents that may be desired for you but not recommended can be allowed on your network.

We use a couple of these systems, one for the kiosk computers on campus, to keep the browsing limited to appropriate and safe sites for our students. We utilize a second system for our network servers, this is used in an unorthodox fashion - as an internet black hole that only allows a very limit number of sites to prevent server admins from using servers to browse the web from a server, other than to download necessary patches from approved vendor sites.

In a large environment, this is the perfect system. If you do not have constant changes, it easily becomes a system you drop in place and rarely have to think about. Our units have been rock solid and have never experienced any unexpected downtime, and upgrades are just a couple button clicks to deploy, or roll back.

For small offices, with minimal traffic this may be using a sledgehammer to put in a push pin. It will work great, but the devices is likely over engineered for small offices (<50 people). That being said, price-wise it's still a great solution when compared to competing products and being from Symantec, you know it's going to be around and support for the long term.