ADVISORY / It’s Not About Porn Anymore — What Internet Categories Should Companies Filter Today?

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Source: NetWorld Interop Atlanta 2000

By: Company Press Release

Business Editors and High-Tech Writers; NetWorld Interop, Atlanta 2000 – ADVISORY … for Monday (Sept. 25)

WHAT: Websense Inc. (Nasdaq:WBSN – news; www.websense.com) announces Premium Group I (PGI).

WHY: New database categories combine Internet filtering and ad blocking to save up to 10 percent network bandwidth and restore administrators’ ability to regulate desktop applications.

WHO: Andrew Meyer, vice president of marketing, Websense

WHEN: Monday, September 25, 2000, 5-9:30 p.m.

WHERE: PressONE Reception, NetWorld+Interop, Atlanta 2000

DETAILS: Benefits of PGI categories to employees and IT include:

Advertisements — Eliminates distracting and bandwidth-intensive ads from appearing on desktops, preventing workers from being pulled to non-work-related sites

Online brokerage and trading — Eliminates bandwidth-intensive streaming quotes and limits day-trading of securities and investments, as well as 401(k) stock “flipping”

Freeware/software download — Eliminates the download of massive unauthorized applications onto the desktop, while maintaining control of desktop applications by IT

Pay-to-surf — Eliminates a major productivity threat because these sites receive heavy workday traffic

Instant messaging (IM) — Stops a popular bandwidth and productivity-draining activity at its source.