Web Access Manager
Protect users on the internet and enforce your Acceptable Use Policies with flexibility for varying situations, even when users are away from your network
Lightspeed Web Access Manager ensures users’ web browsing is in line with Acceptable Use Policies—while they are on the network or even when laptops are away from the network. Our database is comprehensive and accurate, ensuring that inappropriate sites are no longer a click away, but that useful content remains available to users.
Benefits
The Internet offers valuable benefits—but is also full of inappropriate and time-wasting content. To comply with government guidelines and Acceptable Use Policies, you have to ensure that all users are using network resources for appropriate purposes. Lightspeed Web Access Manager provides comprehensive, customisable filtering to ensure web browsing and searching are safe and appropriate.
Protects users from inappropriate material on the Internet. Web Access Manager detects and/or blocks access to inappropriate material on the Internet based on our extensive URL database, as well as your own custom allow and block lists.
Keeps searches safe. Web Access Manager ensures that search results on Google and other popular search engines do not include inappropriate sites or images, such as pornography and sexual content.
Provides safe access to YouTube videos. The Educational Video Library gives users access to valuable Web 2.0 resources, without the content risks. With this feature, you can easily allow users to play approved YouTube videos. selected users can tag, submit, review and approve videos.
Protects users and computers away from the network. The Guide Mobile Filter extends policies and protection when computers are away from the network, reducing the cost, downtime, and frustration associated with computers that have a tendency to be compromised while off the network.
Features
Lightspeed Web Access Manager provides powerful, easy-to-use features for filtering and monitoring web browsing.
- Comprehensive and accurate URL database with more than one billion entries.
- Multiple layers of anonymous proxy detection and blocking to keep users from bypassing your filter and accessing blocked sites.
- Educational Video Library allows selected users to share approved YouTube videos.
- Protection for laptops away from the network - without a VPN, from any location with any type of Internet connection.
- Flexible filtering for mobile users, including thin clients.
- Access differentiation by user, IP, group, organizational unit, domain.
- Peer-to-peer application and file-type blocking.
- Daily signature updates, and immediate emergency updates, directly from Lightspeed Systems.
- Fast filtering capabilities can handle even the heaviest traffic loads without hindering speed of access.
- Guide Mobile Filter provides remote filtering and reporting on off-network activity
Reporting
Web Access Manager gives you access to comprehensive information about who is viewing what over your network, so you can adjust Acceptable Use Policies, change allowed usages, review problems and troubleshoot issues, and plan for ongoing needs. You can see a high-level overview of content viewed and blocked, and then drill down for detailed information, with reports like:
- Blocked Content
- Search Engine Queries
- Blocked URLs
- URLs visited
- Traffic by Category
- Overrides (active and history)
"Total Traffic Control provides protection from many different threats in one unified product"
Brian Canner
IT Director, Brown Butler

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