Blue Coat® K9 Web Protection
Blue Coat® K9 Web Protection is a content filtering solution for your home computer. Its job is to provide you with a family-safe Internet experience, where YOU control the Internet content that enters your home. K9 Web Protection implements the same enterprise-class Web filtering technology used by Blue Coat's Fortune 500 customers around the world, wrapped in simple, friendly, and reliable software for your Windows 2000, Windows XP or Windows Vista computer.
Features
K9 Web Protection is different from other solutions for the home in several important respects:
- Service-based filtering – Blue Coat's filtering database operates as a service. It receives and rates over 80 million requests every day, making it the most accurate content filtering database available. This accuracy is important in protecting your family, given the Internet's rapid changes and growth. Plus, there is no database to download. K9 Web Protection won't clog your Internet connection, get "stale" or out of date, or slow down your computer like other products do.
- Dynamic Real-Time Rating™ (DRTR) – Blue Coat's patent-pending DRTR technology is a very powerful element in our solution, and is vastly different from the old-fashioned "key word filtering" that is so frustrating to users. Using a method of statistical analysis and artificial intelligence to rate new or previously unrated Web pages, DRTR can determine the category of a URL on the fly, without human intervention. However, DRTR only renders a rating when it is confident that it has reached an accurate conclusion.
We've focused DRTR on recognizing the kinds of categories most likely to be blocked. In particular, DRTR is highly accurate in blocking pornography and other "adult content" sites. This focus for DRTR is particularly important because these kinds of sites are constantly – daily and even hourly – popping up on the Internet, and no static database can keep up.
- Automatic updating – Automatic updates of the K9 Web Protection application ensure that you are always protected by the latest features. For example, in Spring of 2005, we added two new categories to our solution: Spyware/Malware Sources, and Spyware Effects/Privacy Concerns. By electing to block sites in these categories, your computer's rate of infection by unwanted software can be reduced dramatically. We have a variety of new features planned, and your K9 installation will automatically receive updates that include them.
- Efficient caching – K9 Web Protection is a product from Blue Coat. Blue Coat is recognized world-wide as expert in high-performance caching and secure proxy technology. We take advantage of that expertise in K9, so your Internet experience is as fast, reliable, and safe as we can make it.
Unlike other filtering solutions, K9 Web Protection ensures the highest level of protection by building the most relevant ratings database available. Its effective coverage reaches more than one billion Web pages. With K9 Web Protection, you finally have a chance to build a family-safe Internet experience for your home, simply and easily.
Dangers children face on the internet:
- Sexual solicitation
- Cyber bullying
- Exposure to sexually explicit material
- Contact with adults posing as children
Statistics:
- 1 in 5 youths have been sexually approached or solicited online
- 1 in 4 have received unwanted exposure to sexually explicit material
- 1 in 17 have been threatened or harassed
- MySpace has 60 million monthly users, less than 20% of which are teens or preteens
- Children start giving personal information as early as 9 years old
- Most children feel it is alright to "fool around" or experiment online with strangers
- Most children believe what happens online will remain secret
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It is the responsibility of my office to monitor the compliance of the registered sex offenders in Rockdale County. We have a very capable Sex Offender Registration & Tracking Unit (S.O.R.T) that is tasked with making sure that all of these offenders have provided us with accurate information as to where they work and live. I encourage you to utilize this site as well as our contact page should you have any information or questions regarding any of the individuals you find on this site. It takes a cooperative effort between law enforcement and you to make our community as safe as possible. We are providing this service to let the citizens of this community know who is living in your neighborhood. 