Case Study: Metron Enterprise and Howard County, Maryland
[ Source: eTelemetry ]
July 2008-
Howard County, Maryland, has approximately 3,000 users on its County IT network. Users who engaged in streaming music and inappropriate surfing or had misconfigured PCs, for example, were straining the network and impacting employee use for legitimate work purposes. Limited resources and an inability to monitor network activity left Howard County without any reliable way of identifying the sources of these violations. The IT department would be routinely asked to analyze hard drives for evidence ....
Bloxx Internet Filtering Proves Best Fit for Easton-Bell Sports
[ Source: Bloxx, Inc. ]
October 2008-
Easton-Bell Sports was growing increasingly concerned about its bandwidth consumption, as well as the time IT staff members were spending removing malware from employees' computers. In addition, upper management was eager to assess employee Internet use and its affect on productivity. The rising importance of these issues caused the company to seek out a cost-effective Internet filtering solution.
After extensively evaluating a number of different web filtering solutions, Easton-Bell Sports' ....