The Internet is critical to business. Companies have no choice but to connect their internal networks to the rest of the world - to link with customers, suppliers, partners, and their own employees. But with that connection comes new threats: malicious hackers, criminals, industrial spies. These attackers regularly steal corporate assets and intellectual property, cause service breaks and system failures, mar corporate brands, and scare customers.

The Internet security is a business problem: how to handle it in the same way as the rest of the corporate threats. Unless companies can successfully deal with those threats, they will never be able to unlock the full potential of the Internet. Companies that cannot adequately protect their customers and shareholders will fail, and those that can will succeed.

Traditional approaches to computer security have failed. Despite decades of research, and hundreds of available security products, the Internet has steadily become more dangerous, not less.

Traditional Internet security products - largely preventive in nature - embody the threat avoidance paradigm: either they successfully repel attackers, or they fail. The unfortunate reality is that every security product ever sold has, on occasion, failed.

A security solution based on risk management encompasses several strategies. First, some risk is accepted as a cost of doing business. Second, some risk is reduced through technical and/or procedural means. And third, some risk is transferred, through contracts or insurance. Most people concentrate on the second approach and attempt to solve the risk through the purchase of security equipment.

However, technical risk reduction cannot be achieved this way; newly discovered attacks, proliferation of attack tools, and flaws in the products themselves all result in a private network becoming vulnerable at random (and increasingly frequent) intervals for random amounts of time. The only way to stay ahead of these vulnerabilities is through detection and response: active network monitoring.

Cyclope Internet Filtering Proxy controls and filters the Internet activity, preventing access to undesirable/unsuited web resources. Cyclope Internet Filtering Proxy is a cohesive web filter and Internet Security software empowering management to control internet traffic within their organisation.

More information on the Internet Security application features is available [ here ].