Skip to content
ControlIT

Web Filtering For Branches And Remote Staff

Apply the same URL and category policy at head office, in a branch and on a remote laptop, with requests logged by user and group wherever they connect from.

Every request, decided and logged

Illustrative ControlIT Web Gateway console: a live log of internet requests with the user and group, the destination and its category, the verdict and the policy that matched, beside request, block and user counters, the top blocked categories and a bandwidth trace. Sample data only.

What this actually does

A filtering policy that only reaches head office is not a policy, it is a location. Branches and remote laptops need the same rules.

  • Internet traffic from branches and remote users routes through the same Web Gateway as head office, so one policy applies everywhere instead of a rule per site.

  • Policy follows the laptop through the gateway over the overlay

    a remote worker at home is filtered exactly as they would be at a desk in the office.

  • User and group policies give management, staff, developers, vendors and guests different rules, with business traffic kept ahead of streaming and downloads.

  • Every request is logged by user, device, URL, category and verdict, so a branch or a remote site shows up in the same reporting as head office.

What changes as a result

  • One policy across office, branch and remote laptops
  • No separate filtering appliance to manage per branch
  • Consistent reporting regardless of where a user connects

Bring branch and remote filtering under one policy

Bring us your directory, your remote access and your sites. We will map what the overlay changes before anyone signs anything.