ContentKeeper® Web Filtering System - Collaborative Filtering

ContentKeeper’s® Closed Loop Collaborative Filtering™ technology provides automatic worldwide collaborative site discovery, analysis, classification and distribution via HOURLY control list updates 24X365.  Currently ContentKeeper® leverages the browsing activity of more than 5,000,000 users worldwide to help identify, analyze, classify and re-classify new Internet sites, automatically.

Collaborative Filtering means that all ContentKeeper® Appliances maintain contact with a centralized Datacenter, and each appliance Control List is automatically updated on an HOURLY basis twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week via ContentKeeper’s® encoded, encrypted and compressed TrickleFeed™ Technology update mechanism.

ContentKeeper's® AUTOMATED CLOSED LOOP COLLABORATIVE
FILTERING METHODOLOGY IS INHERENTLY SUPERIOR TO ANY OTHER
METHOD USED IN ANY WEB FILTERING PRODUCT IN THE WORLD TODAY

Currency - Each ContentKeeper® appliance has both a Control List containing tens of millions of URLS as well as a real time AI engine. The real time engine allows ContentKeeper® appliances to discover, analyze, and categorize new or previously unseen websites in real time. 

If a new site is discovered with inappropriate content, ContentKeeper® will automatically block that site locally within 60 seconds while adding it to its list of newly discovered non-business sites.  Each hour, the ContentKeeper® appliance calls into the Datacenter to download all URLs recently discovered by other ContentKeeper® appliances around the world.  During that process any new sites discovered locally are automatically and anonymously uploaded to the Datacenter for further in-depth analysis and verification.  If verified, these new URLs are then added to the master Global Control List and included for download by every other ContentKeeper® appliance in the world during the next hourly call-in cycle.

Quality - The same Collaborative Filtering technology is used to ensure the quality of the Global Control List.  As ContentKeeper® administrators discover any sites that may have been misclassified, they simply re-classify the site locally.  The local change is executed instantly and the URL is added to a re-classification request list to be transmitted anonymously to the Datacenter for manual analysis and re-classification.  After re-classification the change is added to the Global Control List and transmitted to every ContentKeeper® appliance globally during the next hourly update cycle.

Closed Loop Collaborative Filtering is a completely automated, transparent and seamless background process, to the point that users and administrators aren’t even aware of the activity.  All ContentKeeper® sites benefit locally within hours of new sites being discovered anywhere around the world on a 24X7 basis.

Arguably, this is the key to successful internet filtering and a feature which has been independently proven to provide the fastest most accurate filtering available in the world.

Most web filtering companies rely on web crawling technology and manual searches to identify URLs and then on the manual methods of categorization.  These techniques worked well in the past, however, today, using these methods most new sites will not be found; and it can be seen by a simple analysis of Internet site growth that thousands of staff would be required to cope with even a one-day load of new Internet sites.  Even the world's largest web filtering company cannot employ anywhere near enough staff to find and process these sites in any sort of timely fashion by using traditional methodologies.

Thousands of new non-business Internet sites are being created around the clock at an ever increasing rate.  Hyperlinks to these new sites are now delivered to employees via Spam and obfuscated links on legitimate websites on a continuous basis.  To combat this “real time” menace, ContentKeeper® automatically updates its Global Control List on a real time basis, by receiving HOURLY TrickleFeed™ updates from the Datacenter. 

Any filtering system that updates nightly, weekly or monthly will be totally ineffective against the URL hyperlinks which are arriving continuously via email and legitimate browsing by employees within an organization.

No Obligation Evaluations
A fully functional ContentKeeper® installation is available for a 21 day evaluation without obligation in either the Appliance option preconfigured for your network; or as an ISO download with auto-installer for installation on a customer-provided server.

The Advanced Reporting Module (ARM) is also available for evaluation and represents a popular option for more sophisticated reporting requirements. 

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