Tuesday, March 08, 2005
SunRay Science Fair Project - 2
I have been working late nights preparing for the upcoming trade show. Since we are providing the internet connectivity via SunRay terminals, I had to work out how best to accomplish this.
One aspect of providing internet connectivity that my dear friends and coworkers revealed to me on Friday during a small test of multiple SunRay terminals was that of content filters. My dear friends and coworkers decided to challenge our companies web filtering software, and were able to achieve an alarming degree of success at locating and displaying the front page of certain inappropriate websites out there in cyberspace.
Which left me wondering.
Shouldn't I provide some type of content filtering on the show floors? After researching the possibilities with friends and my companies IT staff, I've come up with three options - in no particular order:
1. My IT staff suggested that perhaps I could leverage our corporate investment (as effective as it supposedly is). Their idea was for me to obtain a hardware VPN router and direct internet connectivity through our corporate infrastructure. An interesting idea, because I can do other interesting things with a hardware VPN router...
2. Someone suggested that i could just download surfcontrol and run that with a temp key. I mean, after all surfcontrol is The World Leader in Enterprise Web and E-Mail Filtering. Well that's what their website says..
3. As I continue to grow my relationship and understanding of NetApp products, my NetApp presales SE has offered up a netcache 1105? (I think it is a 1105) He tells me it's got webwasher on it so I should be good to go.
One way or another I think it might be a good idea to get some kind of content filtering. This show is targeted at IT Directors in the South Carolina government, so I really don't expect any trouble - but hey if you are going to provide transportation you should make sure the seat belts work just in case, right?
Stay Tuned
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