SafeSquid Composite Edition 50 4.2.2.RC9.0

SafeSquid Composite Edition 50 4.2.2.RC9.0 is has a browser based interface SafeSquid offers arguably, worlds biggest set of Content Filtering features.

SafeSquids multi-threaded architecture, delivers industry fastest throughput, even while providing extreme content analysis and security. SafeSquid has an intelligent DNS cache, an extremely manageable content caching system, and configurable content pre-fetching that allows fast browsing of often viewed web-sites.

SafeSquid is An Internet Proxy

• That allows Total Access Control
• That allows Total Content Security
• That allows easy scalability in really large environments.
• And most importantly, easy to implement, manage and tweak, as per every-day needs.
  

As an Internet Proxy, SafeSquid supports

• Transparent proxying, as well as the opaque-mode & WPAD.
• creation profiles that allows the administrators to - allocate time and cumulative bandwidth - to users /networks
• access control profiles
• user Authentication via PAM.
  

SafeSquid offers the most advanced possibilities in content filtering.

• It can use your favourite AntiVirus Software for virus filtering
• It can block pornography, by analysing text and images from any web-page, including webmail services like Hotmail, Yahoo!, Gmail, etc.
• It can stop people from querying search engines for pornography or jobs, etc.
• It can stop people from logging into personal email sites, or forums & blogs, or instant messengers & chats.
• It can stop people from uploading or downloading huge files.
• It can block pop-ups, spyware, or any other malicious content.
• It can stop downloads of software, or music, or movies etc.
• It can use categorised web-site databases to allow and deny access.
  

SafeSquid has a built-in browser-based interface,

• A GUI that anybody with even minimal technical understanding can manage.
• The salient feature of this interface is it's context-sensitive tool-tip help.
• SafeSquid is singularly unique in this tool-tip system. The users can themselves change the displayed tool-tips, just in case they have better words to interpret a function.

SafeSquid by design has an extremely scalable architecture -

• multi-threaded design with very fine-grained locking allows maximum utilization of SMP systems.
• a client connection pool so that the number of threads in use at any time roughly matches the number of requests currently transferring, rather than the number of clients connected as you would expect with a more primitive multi-threaded design.
• configuration synchronization between multiple proxy servers in a cluster to ease management.
• support for Internet Cache Protocol to maximize the efficiency of the cache in a clustered environment.
• support for Cache Array Routing Protocol, which allows a group of proxy servers to act as one logical cache store.
• freely distributed SDK to create custom features.
• inherent capability to process requests and responses with any third party software.
• PAM-awareness to use any PAM modules.
  

Major Features:

1. SafeSquid - Functions follow the need!

• SafeSquid provides a reliable and efficient solution for enterprise-wide distribution of Internet Access.
• It delivers the essential goals of a Content Filtering Internet Proxy - Total Access Control & Total Content Control.
• It's unique features provide better Manageability, Granularity & Scalability than any other comparable solution.
• Easy to use; SafeSquid is very easy to use and administer
• Simple text based installation script, that can be modified as per individual requirements.
• Browser based interface - that, requires no additional download of applets or any other browser specific components.
• Convenient Tool-Tips on the browser-based interface that describe, the functions of every feature.
• Multi-format Log reports, FireWall format - to describing the SafeSquid Transactions, Squid Access Log format - detailing the users and their applications. Extended log format - detailing the users, applications and security breaches.
• Ready to use templates for Access / Content control.
• Ready to use config files for compatible log analysers and reporting tools like SARG, Calamaris, Squint, and many others.
• Easy attaching of any third-party software executables to process requests and responses.
  

2. Advanced Management: SafeSquid can be easily managed even in most remote and complex environment.

• Password protected browser-based interface for managing the system, viewing transactions in real-time, and reviewing system performance.
• Multiple administrators can be assigned the task of managing the rules.
• Unlimited unique department profiles based on I.P. addresses and/or username.
• Time-based global or departmental rules for access to content.
• Time based application profiles to define unique allow / deny actions depending upon departments, web-sites, nature of content, etc.
• Unlimited rules to set limits for speed / data transfer, for each department or application.
• XML based data-file to store and back-up configuration.
• Enterprise-wide enforcement of rules on multiple proxy servers by using a unique Master-Slave installation.
• Fully PCRE compatible system for creation of easily editable default rules.
• Unique browser based URL Commands to analyse the application of profiles and nature of request and response.
• Easily customisable templates that replace denied or inaccessible content.
• Automatically produces appropriate WPAD compatible proxy.pac
  

3. Enhanced Surfing: SafeSquid can make Internet access, a better experience.

• Pre-fetching accelerates loading of web-content.
• Selectively apply filter bypassing for any application.
• Use applications that supports use of HTTP 1.1 proxy.
• DNS Cache to reduce latency when you visit popular web-sites.
  

4. Access Security: SafeSquid challenges all applications that seek to access the Internet, to be authenticated.

• Only users with a user / password, will be able to access the Internet.
• The administrators can very easily identify and analyse the Internet usage of each individual user.
• Spy-ware & Trojans will not be able to access the Internet.
• Intrinsic PAM client ensures natural compatibility for using different mechanisms of authentication like Windows Domain, SQL Databases, POP3 email servers, Flat files etc.

5. Content Security: SafeSquid ensures that all the content fetched from the Internet is security checked before it reaches the users.

• A two-tier, fully-manageable, MD5 encrypted, content cache to serve the more popular content very quickly.
• Readily connects to one or more virus scanners like ClamAV, F-Prot, Kaspersky, Sophos, Avast, etc
• Built-in ICAP client to quickly connect to any existing - ICAP based content security software like Symantec, Trend-Micro, Dr. Web, etc.
• Built-in Document Re-write sanitises the web-sites to remove pop-ups, ActiveX controls and stops spyware.
• Fully configurable document analyser, to block web-sites or pages, based on the nature of content.
• Fully configurable image analyser, to block pornographic images.
• Time-based global or departmental rules for access to specified content

6. Chains with other Proxy or Security Gateway: SafeSquid can easily complement your existing Internet Gateway.

• Has advanced features like ICP / CARP to connect to external web-caches.
• Forwarding with Authentication allows you to optionally place SafeSquid behind any authenticating Firewall that requires username / domain / password based authentication
• Selectively Bind outgoing requests to different I.P addresses.
• Programmable Headers allow you to protect your privacy.
  

7. Value-for-Money: SafeSquid has a very low Total Cost of Owner-ship, and a very good investment .

• Perpetual Server based licenses with no user-limits / time based expiration.
• Trained technicians to evaluate your enterprise requirements.
• Total support for system optimization.
• Low-cost of management
• Compatible with a variety of third-party / open-source software.
• Freely distributed SafeSquid SDK allows everybody to create feature enhancements.

Requirements:

• Linux,
• Kernel 2.6 or higher
• Glibc 2.4 or higher