Partnership to provide Entensys UserGate users with integrated web filtering built around the BrightCloud Master's URL database solution.

Entensys Corporation and BrightCloud, Inc., have announced a joint technology partnership to integrate the hosted BrightCloud Service and the BrightCloud Master Database into UserGate Security server, a complete Internet sharing software solution providing centralized network management with extremely high-level security for protected Internet access.

The companies state that UserGate provides ultimate control and security of all Internet Connections, carries out network resource caching, conducts exact traffic calculation, offers a built-in billing system and a statistics module, and includes DHCP support as well as a dual core anti-virus check. It also adds, that the BrightCloud Service will be integrated into the UserGate Proxy so that customers can implement web filtering as part of the proxy solution.

In addition they described that as UserGate users browse the web, they will be able to implement acceptable internet usage policies appropriate for their user population. The web page request is handed off to the BrightCloud Service and the BrightCloud Master Database to determine the category of the website, and the integrated UserGate policy engine implement the appropriate policy, blocking access, for example to inappropriate web sites, phishing web sites, or web sites infected with malware.

"The integration of the hosted BrightCloud Service with UserGate Internet Security server provides users with a state of the art web filtering experience for managing their Internet access," said Alexander Levchenko, President of Entensys Corporation. "Entensys' integration of the hosted BrightCloud Service shows our commitment to providing our user population with a great user experience built upon superior technology covering maximum of existing Internet websites."

"We are very please to announce this technology partnership," commented Quinn Curtis, CEO of BrightCloud. "UserGate is a very successful product in the marketplace, and a perfect fit for the BrightCloud solution. Combining the Entensys product with the hosted BrightCloud Services provides UserGate customers with the security and peace of mind that they are being protected by the next generation of web filtering."