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The purpose of an Internet filter is to control content. However, there can be different types of employees within a company or different kinds of organizations, from libraries to daycare centers to Internet cafes, that serve groups of people with differing needs. In iPrism, each Internet filter is configured as part of a user profile, which sets rules on what kind of access is allowed and when it is allowed.
As en example, public libraries have a wide range of patrons. Because libraries cater to families, a library Internet filter must be as accurate as one for schools, with the added necessity to provide the widest range of information to their adult clients, even including pornographic materials. A library Internet filter must allow adults to have access to the full range of sites, while teenagers may be allowed by the library Internet filter to access adult sites for research but must be prevented from accessing age-restrictive sites such as porn or gambling and children should have the most limited access. And all of these groups should be blocked by the library Internet filter from hacking, virus, and spyware sites for the health of the network. A library Internet filter, then, has to be flexible enough so that each person can get to the sites and information they want.
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Other organizations have the same kind of problem, having to provide different levels of access for different users. iPrism's solution is creating user profiles. User profiles are an effective way to implement something like a library Internet filter because a different filter can be created for every user type. iPrism user profiles can have any of the following characteristics:
- Allowing, monitoring, or blocking access to categories of web pages.
- Enabling safe browsing, which filters web search results.
- Setting restrictions on the time of day that a user can access a category. This allows library patrons, for example, to access adult-themed sites but blocks those sites even to adults in the early afternoon when there is a children's story hour.
- Restrictions on downloading file types.
- Rules for visiting bandwidth-intensive sites like streaming video.
iPrism user profiles create an environment where the library can adapt its library Internet filter to meet the needs of all their users while still enforcing acceptable use policies. This is also ideal for other types of businesses. Coffee shops with free Internet access can use similar library Internet filter profiles to block all traffic outside regular business hours; corporations can allow personal shopping or banking over lunch but block personal use during work hours. User profiles provide enough flexibility for you to be precise in setting up a library Internet filter for your organization.
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