Website Filtering
Website filtering remains a useful tool in fighting malware and spyware, in part because some hackers and malware purveyors have simply gotten lazy. Rather than maintaining their own infrastructure, many use commercially available DNS infrastructure, just like everyone else. Using domain names and DNS makes it easy to move around from one provider to another, but it also makes it easy to disconnect them from your stuff... using the same domain names to filter out the websites and domains they use to disseminate and control their malware. It's not so much that they would notice that you had disappeared, but merely that you are temporarily not available to their malware domains. It's easy, elegant and effective.
LAD's website filtering is intuitive and easy to implement with options to blacklist, whitelist and create exceptions, allowing you to fine-tune the web access of the individual members of your organization according to their needs.
Black- and whitelisting may be further enhanced with enforcement schedules and manual switches for toggling specific domains or groups of domains on and off.
Additionally, LAD automatically logs the DNS requests of each client, making it possible to check where on the web each client went (or tried to go), even attempts to access blocked websites. These logs are particularly handy for fine-tuning the white- and blacklist entries, to best provide appropriate restrictions and exceptions.
Read more about LateralDNS, LAD's engine for web filtering and domain access management.
Other LAD Features
- SIP server and VoIP PBX: Fully integrated VoIP calling via SIP protocol, with a number of practical call flow processing features.
- Wi-Fi for 2.4Ghz, 5G and 6G: Full support of the latest Wi-Fi 6E for both 5G and 6G wi-fi networks plus the mainstay 2.4Ghz band lets you connect, protect and manage a wide range of Wi-Fi clients [read more].
- Wireless Router: In addition to all its other features, LAD serves as a great wireless router, able to operate in all three bands, whether as a triband, dual-band or [read more].
- Lateral Firewall: Thousands of sophisticated rules let you control specifically what is allowed and what is not allowed, down to as granular a level as you like, with device-specific, date-specific and time-specific variability [read more].
- Date & Time Scheduling: Want your computer to disconnect at the end of the day, when you do? LAD's scheduling features let you cut off Internet access partially or fully on a schedule of your choosing [read more].
- LateralDNS: Simplify and streamline the blocking of unwanted online content and services using domain names for consistent and reliable results [read more].
- Packet Capture: LAD's packet capture feature lets you capture as much or as little of the Internet and network traffic as you like. This information comes in handy should a network incident require investigation [read more].
- NAT: Network address translation obscures private/internal IP addresses from the public internet, so that only the Internet-facing IP address is used for communications leaving the private/internal network.
- DNS: LAD's DNS services monitor and control domain name resolution with no intermediaries, making you impervious to DNS-based exploits and vulnerabilities [read more].
- Switching & Routing: LAD provides switching and routing services, meaning you can plug all of your devices directly into your LAD without an intervening switch or router.
- Local Access Control: Locally you can limit which devices on the network can talk to each other and with the Internet, as well as specify the types of communications allowed [read more].
- Automatic Activity Report: LAD generates reports every eight hours, giving you an overview of your network traffic, plus individual graphs on bandwidth usage for each device on your network.
- LateralTime: Use LAD's LateralTime feature to sychronize the devices on your network to the same time.
- Network Management & Monitoring: LAD provides a number of tools for network management and troubleshooting, including ping monitors, Wi-Fi monitoring, LAN and WAN activity monitoring, new device detection and individual client management.
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