Untangle Education Standard Package

Submitted by vendor: shaungardner
Last updated: 12/11/2010
About Company
Company Name: 
Untangle, Inc
Links to Third Party Reviews: 
Library References (include Contact Info): 
Additional Comments About Company: 
URL to product: 
http://www.untangle.com/Schools
Platform and Pricing
Type of Product: 
Network appliance
Type of Product: 
Runs on other server
Type of Product: 
Software appliance
Platforms Supported: 
Microsoft Apple Linux
Does Company Offer Library Discounts?: 
Yes
Cost of Annual Subscription (for 50 users): 
$80 monthly or $864 Annually
Complete Pricing Schedule: 
1 Month $80 /Month 1 Year $864 /1 Year 2 Year $1,536 /2 Years 3 Year $2,016 /3 Years
Filtering Technology
Process for Categorizing a Site: 
-Block 100M+ classified websites in 53 categories and 20+ languages. -Great for: Traditional sites like porn, gambling, social networking & more. -Block new and unknown sites as users browse to them with eSoft's dynamic filtering and Distributed Intelligence Architecture (DIA). -Great for: Rapidly changing sites like proxies, phishing, IM, P2P & more. -Leverage eSoft's Threat Protection Team for best-in-class online security. -Great for: Spyware, phishing and virus distribution sites. -Block encrypted sites by IP address. -Great for: Proxies and other sites that use https to obfuscate themselves. -Now with SafeSearch - filters search engine results. -Includes password overide capability
Percentage of Category Decisions Reviewed by Human: 
less than 1%
Description of Each Content Category with Example URLs: 
Adware Alcohol Anonymizer/ Proxy Art Business/ Services Cars/ Transportation Chat/IM Community Sites Compromised Computers & Technology Criminal Skills/ Hacking Dating Download Sites Education and Reference Entertainment/ Videos Finance Gambling Games Government Hate Speech Health Home/Leisure Humor Illegal Drugs Job Search Mature Military Miscellaneous Music News Non-profits Nudity Personal Webpages Pharmacy Phishing/ Fraud Politics & Law Pornography/ Sex Portal Sites Proxy/ Anonymizer Real Estate Religion Restaurants Search Engines Shopping Social Networking Spammed Sports and Recreation Spyware & Malicious Sites Tobacco Translator Travel Violence Weapons Web-based Email
Categories Vendor Recommends for CIPA Compliance: 
http://www.untangle.com/cipa_whitepaper.html
Granularity of Your Block List: 
Block by IP address
Block by hostname
Block by top level domain
Block to page level
Examples of Each Item Selected Above (Granularity): 
Frequency of Updates to Blocked Site List: 
Updated on-the-fly
Description of How Updates are Applied: 
Untangle Server keeps a local copy of the ESoft database. If you visit a website that the ESoft database doesn't know about, ESoft phones home to the ESoft service, then writes the new information to the ESoft database.
Block Page Displayed or Blocking Transparent to User: 
Displayed
Additional Comments on Blocking: 
When blocking https traffic, the webpage being blocked will just return a "Page cannot be displayed" error message.
Items that Can Be Included on Block Page (if applicable): 
There is a generic block page
Category causing the block
End user ability to override
Customizable message
Password override
Does filter provide dynamic filtering of pages as they are accessed?: 
Yes
Does content filtering work on a weighted system controlled by administrator: 
N/A
Describe how dynamic content filter can be changed by administrator, if applicable.: 
Can filter by file type: 
Can block by extension--applies to all categories
Can block by MIME type--applies to all categories
Can block by protocol--applies to all categories
General Administration
Can Have Multiple User/ Filter Profiles: 
Yes
Additional Comments on Filter Profile Options: 
The Policy Manager is a powerful and advanced feature of the Untangle Server. Advanced Policy Management with Custom Racks is a commercial or paid option on the Untangle Server. You can, however, use No Rack and Default Rack policies in the Lite package. The Policy Manager works by creating rules, or policies. Using policies, you can route traffic based on the network interface and/or endpoints. A policy binds traffic that matches certain criteria to a Virtual Rack. Policy Manager enables you to: Use multiple, distinct copies (instances) of any filter applications, but not services. Install and configure each instance into a different rack. Assign each rack a policy. Route a particular type of traffic to the a chosen rack.
Admin Can Selectively Enable Categories: 
Yes
URLs in Each Content Category Are Viewable: 
Provide URL Lookup: 
Keyword Blocking: 
Admin Can Disable
Admin Can Remove Sites From Category: 
yes
Users Can Recommend URL Recategorization to Company: 
Yes
Admin Can Modify Categorization of URL: 
Yes
Admin Can Add New Categories: 
No
Admin Can Add Sites to a Category: 
Yes
Admin Can Block Images But Not Text Within a Category: 
No
Reporting Capabilities: 
Untangle Server generates Untangle Reports, and makes them available through: Online Email summary CSV file (for further data analysis) Reports can be viewed on the Untangle Server, or email summary reports can be emailed to report recipients. While the emailed report provides a significant amount of information on your network traffic, you cannot drill down to get extreme granularity. When this is needed, you should use the emailed report as a guide so that you can identify specific instances for further analysis with online reporting and/or with CSV-based report data.
Integrates with Directory Service (LDAP, Active Directory or NDS): 
Active Directory
Other
Can import URLs to Always Allow List: 
Must enter URLs manually
Number URLs One Can Add to Always Allow List: 
Unlimited
Overriding
Can Filter be Turned off at the Workstation: 
Yes
Describe Process and Options Available for Turning Off Filter at Workstation: 
Administrator only through Web-UI.
Blocked Page Can Be Overridden by Admin: 
Yes
Describe Process and Options For Overriding a Blocked Page: 
User Bypass Some organizations may wish to allow certain users to bypass the ESoft Web Filter. This option is available under "User Bypass." If User Bypass is set to None no users will be allowed to bypass the block page. If User Bypass is set to Temporary users will be allowed to bypass the block page. If User Bypass is set to Permanent and Global then users will be allowed to bypass the block page and bypassed sites will be added to the permanent global pass list. User Bypass is best when combined with Policy Manager so that only certain users are allowed to bypass.
Admin Can Turn Filter Off for a Period of Time: 
Yes
Process and Options for Turning off Filter for a Period of Time: 
Policy Manager allows you to set-up times for certain types of traffic where as other types of traffic can be limited.
Additional Comments on Overriding Options: 
Internal