Utilize IT Support - Stop the abuse of your Web connection

Stop the abuse of your Web connection

Do you feel your staff would get more done if you had a system limiting the time they spend on social networking sites? Are you concerned about their ability to transfer sensitive files offsite? A managed web filtering service would help keep users productive and protect your confidential data.

A team of accountants suspected its staff of spending too much time on social networking sites but they lacked any hard evidence with which to challenge the culprits.

So Utilize was commissioned to install a free 30-day trial of its managed web filtering service, a system that allows employers to monitor their employees’ Internet usage. By configuring this solution in ‘silent monitor’ mode, the company was able to observe the web activity of its users without implementing any restrictions.

The trial confirmed that some users were surfing non-business sites for up to 4 hours per day and the Partners quickly calculated that a return on investment in this service would be achievable in just one month.

CHALLENGE	Preventing Internet abuse
SYMPTOMS	• Staff wasting time browsing social networking sites • Office bandwidth choked with non-business traffic • Concerns over staff ability to transfer sensitive files via email
SOLUTION	Managed Web filtering service from Utilize
ROI	1 month

When Utilize demonstrated how the solution could also guard against web-based viruses and help prevent the loss of secure company information, this customer placed an order the same day.

Utilize's managed Web filtering service provides:

• Web Access Control - management of your employee Internet use

• Web Threat Security - protection against Web-based security threats that could cause downtime for your staff

• Data Leakage Prevention – ensuring the security of confidential or sensitive information such as company databases and customer lists.

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