Web Blocking Solutions Designed for MSPs, Businesses and Schools
Keep end users secure with WebTitan's web-blocking ability, designed for MSP’s, businesses, and the education sector. Web blocking, also known as web filtering or content filtering, is used to create a defensive barrier for users against advanced security threats and prevent access to specific websites. Such websites may be offensive, inappropriate, or pose a high risk of security threats.
WebTitan DNS Filter prevents access to specified websites and harmful domains. WebTitan is used to control internet access for clients across industries and sectors.
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Why is Web Blocking Important?
Web blocking is an important element of a web content filtering solution for many reasons. Here are the top critical reasons why organizations must have a web blocking solution:
- Employee Internet Management
Web blocking allows organizations to manage their employees’ access to unsuitable websites. Employee internet management is essential for managing compliance requirements, bandwidth usage, or other business concerns.
- CIPA Compliance
K12 schools in the US are required to use a web content filter to prevent minors from being exposed to obscene visual content. To receive e-Rate funding, CIPA compliance is required.
- Cybersecurity
A web content filter can drastically improve an organization's security by blocking access to high-risk or known dangerous websites, thereby preventing harmful malware such as phishing, viruses, ransomware & malicious sites.
- Bandwidth Management
Some organizations' network performance can be significantly degraded by the overuse of bandwidth. Websites such as YouTube, Netflix, etc. can be blocked or restricted to reduce bandwidth usage.
- Productivity Management
A DNS filter solution with web-blocking capabilities enables organizations to block access to distracting websites, such as social media platforms, computer games, and video streaming services.
- Legal Liability
Web blocking is critical to prevent access to inappropriate content such as porn, grotesque imagery, violence, and profanity. Organizations have a legal liability to block underage users from accessing adult content and to reduce the potential for internet abuse to cause a hostile work environment.
We have been very happy with the WebTitan Web Filter since deploying it. It’s given us a 360-degree view of internet use in the company allowing us manage internet usage and minimize non-work related browsing and access to unsafe sites.
WebTitan Web Blocker for Education
WebTitan offers safe internet browsing for children, providing protection from harmful and obscene web content, whether they are studying at school or at home. Web security is available for all devices, including Chromebooks, Windows, iOS, and Apple. WebTitan on-the-go [OTG] provides web filtering for K12 schools, strengthening schools' CIPA compliance to provide students with a safe environment to study, whether in the classroom or at home. This offers a fast and cost-effective way to apply filtering polices to your school's Chromebooks from the cloud. Protect your students with award-winning web security and safe search enforcement.
Web blocking for children and students prevents them from accessing inappropriate websites.
Web Blocker for Business
A web blocker is essential for businesses to not only keep their networks safe from advanced threats but also to ensure employees don’t access harmful websites, and sometimes it is used to prevent employee procrastination.
Web Blocking for MSP’s
A web blocker solution is a key element to have as part of your MSP tech stack, to ensure your end-user stumble onto unsafe sites or access malicious URLs that could leave them at risk of a cyberattack. WebTitan DNS Filter as a web blocker will ensure all end-users are protected by blocking malware, phishing, viruses, ransomware & malicious sites.
What Types of Webpages are Blocked by WebTitan?
WebTitan web blocker has several categories for pages that will be blocked for end users. These are the categories of websites are automatically blocked at the source:
- Anonymizer - Web pages that promote proxies and anonymizers for surfing websites with the intent of circumventing filters
- Compromised - Web pages that have been compromised by someone other than the site owner, which appear to be legitimate, but house malicious code
- Criminal Skills / Hacking - Activities that violate human rights including murder, sabotage, bomb building, etc. Information about illegal manipulation of electronic devices, encryption, misuse, and fraud. Warez and other illegal software distribution
- Hate Speech - Web pages that promote extreme right/left wing groups, sexism, racism, religious hate and other discrimination Illegal
- Drugs - Web pages that promote the use or information of common illegal drugs and the misuse of prescription drugs and compounds
- Mature - Sites not appropriate for children. Includes sites with content about alternative lifestyles, profanity, etc.
- Nudity - Web pages that display full or partial nudity with no sexual references or intent
- Phishing/Fraud - Manipulated web pages and emails used for fraudulent purposes, also known as phishing
- Pornography / Sex - Explicit sexual content unsuitable for persons under the age of 18
- Spam - Products and web pages promoted through spam techniques
- Spyware and Malicious Sites - Sites or software that installs on a users computer with the intent to collect information or make system changes without the users consent.
- Violence - Web pages that promote questionable activities such as violence and militancy
WebTitan’s SafeSearch feature helps keep adults & potentially offensive content out of your search results including image searches and web searches. Safe Search is enabled automatically for Google, YouTube, Bing and Duckduckgo.
TitanHQs Solutions to Restrict Internet Access
WebTitan Cloud
WebTitan Cloud offers the same ease-of-use and flexibility as WebTitan Gateway but, instead of the filtering process taking place onsite, it takes place in the cloud. This has the advantage of releasing resources on companies´ CPUs for other operations. WebTitan Cloud can be deployed within minutes with a simple redirection of the DNS server settings.
WebTitan Cloud for WiFi
WebTitan Cloud for WiFi has been specifically designed for companies with BYOD policies or who provide a WiFi service to the public. WebTitan Cloud for WiFi is compatible with all types of wireless network - regardless of whether they operate via a single router or a network of WiFi hotspots - and has the advantage of protecting networks when users connect to them with malware-infected devices.
Benefits of a Website Blocker
A website blocker provides several significant benefits for both organizations and individuals, particularly as cyberattacks continue to rise. While some may view website blocking as restrictive, the reality is that it delivers meaningful protection and practical advantages that far outweigh any perceived limitations.
One of the most significant benefits of a website blocker is the ability to protect users from online threats. It prevents access to sites that host malware, ransomware, and other dangerous downloads, and it blocks websites explicitly designed for phishing, which remains the leading method attackers use to steal credentials and deploy ransomware. This protection is valuable not only for large enterprises but also for individuals who may unknowingly click on fraudulent links. For example, studies show that the vast majority of URLs containing the word “PayPal” are fraudulent and created solely for phishing scams.
A website blocker helps improve productivity and maintain a safe, professional browsing environment. It can restrict access to websites, such as gambling platforms, online shopping pages, or social media, helping users stay focused on work-related tasks. It also prevents access to offensive or inappropriate content, such as pornography, hate speech, or extremist material, thereby reducing the risk of HR issues and contributing to a respectful workplace culture.
By blocking harmful, unproductive, or inappropriate sites, organizations gain several advantages: stronger security, fewer compliance concerns, improved employee productivity, and a more controlled and positive online environment. A website blocker is a simple but powerful tool that helps businesses operate more safely and efficiently while reducing avoidable risks.
Susan Morrow
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Web Blocker FAQs
A DNS-based web block stops websites from being loaded in a user browser at the point at which name servers perform a query on the friendly domain name and link it to its host IP address. This strategy lowers network bandwidth use and avoids less effective web blockers using categories and proxies.
Good web blockers don’t interfere with legitimate web traffic and aim to have a low false positive count. Some web traffic is legitimate, so a good web content filter has continual updates to remove sites that clean up any malicious code and those that need to be added to the list when new domains are found to host malware. Cloud-based filters like WebTitan receive continual updates from developers as threat intelligence uncovers new malicious domains.
For enterprise-tier website blockers, the software should have features that help administrators deploy the application across the environment, controls to make changes, and add users to the system. Administrators should also be able to review reports and get information on users consistently blocked for inappropriate web requests and the number of domains added to the list. Allow listing should be available so administrators can allow some websites to specific user groups, or allowlists are necessary in case of false positives. Blocklists allow administrators to block some sites
manually. All web-blocking activity applies to configure user groups, which is important when some users need to access sites that might be blocked. For example, security people might need access to suspicious websites from a sandboxed environment.
Proxies and web blockers using categories and a centralized dashboard were traditional methods to block inappropriate sites, but DNS-based blocking is much more efficient. Cloud-based site blockers using third-party vendors stop users from making DNS requests, and the vendor deploys continual updates to the numerous new and updated domains across the internet.
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