Content filtering products limit themselves to reporting websites browsed. Not Rawstream! We track desktop applications used and the time spent in them. This is valuable data for at two reasons: license management, and tracking shadow IT. Rawstream’s Application Usage data help you understand how much time is spent in each application. Optimize existing licenses and help negotiate ..
Rawtream Web Filtering is a powerful web security solution for all your endpoints. A new report has been added that makes it very simple to track agent activity and deployed versions. Last Agent Activity The Last Seen column shows the last time each agent was active. Time is in the UTC time zone. The last activity ..
End-Point
With the urgent need to work from home, most organisations are scrambling to provide the tools their staff need to work and collaborate effectively while working remotely. With organisations and staff thrown into this situation suddently, getting quickly up and running is essential. Safely Productive Colloboration tools are essential, but so is the safety and ..
Be Proactive with Cyber Security Rawstream’s new Threat Huntr™ proactively searches for unknown, active threats in an environment It is the new gold standard for endpoint security. Malware or attackers can be lurking in your network quietly siphoning off data, or working their way across the network jumping from host to host. Your Endpoint Security ..
From today, Rawstream Network Security adds the capability to allow or block domains based on wildcards. Wildcard support is being rolled out across all our DNS IPs right now and will be complete across the next few hours. The entries will match on the full domain queried, including subdomains. As an example: a wildcard entry for sw*.apple.com will match all ..
DNS
We’ve recently updated Rawstream Network Security to collect and report DNS MX requests. This matters because it can help organisations detect potential security breaches. Mail Exchanges DNS is the internet’s telephone directory. When you to browse to example.com, the browser looks up “example.com” against DNS servers, and the DNS server returns the address of example.com in ..
Rawstream for Windows now tracks users’ bandwidth usage. Reporting usage in real-time, the new Bandwidth report charts total bandwidth on a daily basis as well as the top categories for the chosen day. You can drill down further: click on a category to bring up per-user bandwidth consumption. Actionable Reporting Showing consumption by category makes ..
Guest WiFi is widespread with literally millions of access points deployed throughout retail, hospitality, education and other industries. Knowing how many visitors connect, return visitors and similar data is valuable and there are products out there which can do this. All such products on the market today require an on-premise deployment: either an (expensive) hardware ..
Scary for Users. Workload for Help Desks. Users on networks with DNS-based filters blocked HTTPS sites ends up being shown a scary HTTPS certificate broken warning by the browser. This happens because the block page (hosted by the Cloud DNS provider such as Rawstream) does not have a valid SSL certificate for the blocked domain. The browser ..
P2p downloads soak up bandwidth and expose WiFi providers to legal risk. To deal with this risk most providers make the sensible decision to install some sort of web filtering product, usually DNS based filtering because its quick and simple to install. Most web filtering software on the market attempts to block p2p by blocking ..