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Webspy is a relative unknown when compared to the other vendors participating in this review. Despite Webspy's prodigous range of applications there is none which does content filtering per sé. The majority of their applications simply take application logs, such as proxy or firewall, and attempt to make sense of them to enable administrators to generate reports from the overwhelming amount of data these applications tend to generate.
Possibly the application that comes closest to a content screening device is the Webspy Sentinel product. It provides a real-time gateway environment which also has full logging, accounting, and reporting facilities to enable administrators and managers to monitor employee Web surfing events. Due to the nature of the product -- and given the fact that it does not actually apply any rules or policies to block or filter content -- the installation and initial configuration takes only a few minutes and is very straightforward.
Once Sentinel has been configured via the small configuration interface, the log files can then be examined. We installed Webspy Analyzer Giga 2.1 which is the enterprise-level log analyser. With the minimum of fuss, we followed the wizard through to create the log file storage area and import the data, it was then a matter of running a summary report and the results where there for all to see. In conclusion, if spying and logging is your game and content control is not a requirement, then the Webspy range of products would surely have some kind of tool to suit your requirements.
| Product | Webspy Sentinel v3.2 |
| Price | From AU$1397 |
| Vendor | WebSpy |
| Phone | 1800 801 121 |
| Web | www.webspy.com |
| Interoperability |  |
| Limited in that it does not actually filter content, but does have powerful logging/spying capabilities. | |
| Futureproofing |  |
| Not too many features required in the Sentinel monitoring/logging application, however great log analysis in the Giga application. | |
| ROI |  |
| Certainly not cheap, but may be the monitoring solution you have been looking for without all the bells and whistles. | |
| Service | No rating |
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