The Bottom Line
The iPrism appliance is easy to set up and configure and allows you to block or filter web access for your employees to keep them from viewing legally questionable material or being unproductive.
Pros
- Quick and easy setup
- Java-based configuration applet
- Easy to generate reports
Cons
- Configuration applet very slow to load
Description
- Attractive, rack-mountable appliance uses little space
- Initial configuration is relatively quick and simple.
- Avoid hostile environments by filtering pornography, prejudicial and violent websites.
- The reports (or queries) provide all the information you need to track employees web access
- You can block news, sports or other categories of sites aside from just filtering porn
- Access can be customized by user and time of day to allow you to set up filtering how you want it
Guide Review - Product Review: iPrism Appliance v3.3
The iPrism is a rack-mountable device which acts as a proxy for web surfing. The device allows you to filter web surfing by category such as pornography, violence, sports, news, shopping.
Using a device like the iPrism can not only help protect your company from any sexual harrassment litigation arising from porn being viewed on company hardware, but also block your employees from visiting non-work related web site and increase their productivity.
Updates of filtered sites can be downloaded from the vendor or you can add sites manually to be blocked. The reports generated provide valuable information about the surfing habits of your users.
The iPrism is reasonably priced and easy to configure. I recommend the iPrism.