Feature
Issue No. 36 - August/September 2007
Outfoxing corporate giants and 16-year olds everywhere
Adelaide-based software company NetFox has made impressive achievements, developing a system to manage Internet use for both companies and educational institutions. The level and depth of reporting provides immediate results of internet misuses as it happens.
With current management software providing reports after the fact, the horse could well and truly have bolted before you even know that you needed to take action against misuse. Imagine for example, someone decides to illegally download a movie using company equipment and time. This will not only cost you the Internet traffic, it will slow down legitimate business use and possibly expose your company to a lawsuit. NetFox lets businesses know of this risk as they occur.
This risk is significant when you consider that research into non-work related Internet use costs businesses up to 40% of productivity each year. The same research states that 70% of web traffic to pornography sites occurs during business hours!
NetFox has also solved the problem of inefficient content filters that rely on manual and inaccurate input to update access lists. Current content filters are measured by the amount they block rather than what they block; a paradigm that grows ever more inadequate the larger the Internet becomes. NetFox's smarter and more refined content filters respond actively in real-time so users are provided with far more scope of material.
The NetFox system also includes a billing capability t...
