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BluePrint Data today announced that its URL Filtering Database coverage exceeds one Billion (1,000,000,000) URLs / Web pages. The BluePrint Data URL Filtering Database is an exceptionally accurate as it is the only database of its size where 100% of the Websites have been reviewed by trained and certified Web site content specialists and contains reviews Websites that comprise over 98% of all World Wide Web traffic (Neilson / Net Ratings).

“We are delighted to have surpassed this significant milestone” said Bob Dahlstrom, BluePrint Data’s CEO. “We are committed to providing business and Internet Security companies that OEM URL Filtering and content filtering technologies and services as part of their security products or other offerings the largest and most accurate URL filtering database possible.”

Tags: OEM, One Billion, URL Filtering, UTM, web traffic, WWW

BluePrint Data, a leader in OEM and private label Internet / Content Filtering, completed the addition of 27 full time web site content reviewers this week to expand its URL Filtering Database. This expansion will enable the completion of a comprehensive global and international product expanding on the current regional filtering product.

This expansion is necessary due to a pending contract with a publically traded international Internet security provider and to take advantage of the current high level of interest in BluePrint Data’s products and services from other companies. The current economic conditions are favorable to BluePrint Data as there are a number of Internet Security Providers looking to replace their OEM Internet Filtering component (supplied by WebSense, RuleSpace, BrightCloud, or others) and BluePrint Data provides a high quality product at a value price.

In February of this year BluePrint Data added additional languages to its products and services is now available in 14 languages; Arabic, Chinese, Dutch, English, French, German, Hindi, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, and Spanish. The addition of the 27 new web site reviewers enables BluePrint Data to accelerate the reviews of Web sites in these languages.

Tags: Review, Reviewer, URL Content, Web Content, Web Review

BluePrint Data today announced that it is continuing is Competitive Switch Program for Internet Security Vendors that use content filter databases. Depending on volume, discounts of 50% or greater may apply. Given the desperate need for greater value in IT spending, companies that OEM Internet / Web filtering databases and technologies will receive a significant discount from what they are currently paying for similar services.

Many companies that provide Unified Threat Management (UTM) Systems, Managed Security Service Providers (MSSP), Software as a Service (SaaS), and Anti virus, Anti spyware, and Anti malware solutions source their Internet / Web Filtering databases from a vendor such as 8e6 technologies, Fast Data Tech, NetSweeper, RuleSpace, Secure Computing, St. Bernard Software or WebSense / SurfControl.

The BluePrint Data Internet / web filtering database can be used to replace any of these providers’ solutions that use web site content classifications and categorizations. The BluePrint Data filtering database is the largest 100% human reviewed data store in the world. BluePrint Data’s trained and certified Web content review specialists have reviewed web sites that comprise over 800,000,000 URLs/Web pages (Universal Resource Locators, i.e. Web pages). These URL’s account for over 98% of the World Wide Web traffic according to Neilson/Net Ratings a global leader in Internet media and market research.

BluePrint Data’s CEO Bob Dahlstrom stated, “We are excited about our business model of creating better value, service and a superior product. Using trained web site reviewers for 100% of the web site reviews results in the most accurate URL database possible. That combined with our unique system of reviewing 100% of historical sites your end users have accessed in the past along with systems for reviewing each new website visited that is not already in our extensive database ensures complete coverage of web sites end users actually visit while not wasting resources on the long tail of the Internet and web sites your end users never see.”

Tags: Competitive Switch, Internet, internet security, OEM, Web URL Content

Friday April 10, 2009 –

BluePrint Data this week provided comments for the Federal Trade Commission’s (FCC) implementation of the Broadband Data Improvement Act, part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Recovery Act). The goal of the act includes measures to modernize our nation’s Internet and communications infrastructure the FCC oversees, specifically, the Broadband Technology Opportunities Program established by the Act, and the FCC creation of a National Broadband Plan. BluePrint Data’s comments relate to the necessity and cost savings of Internet Filtering as part of the broadband plan.

The Recovery Act states that the National Broadband Plan shall seek to ensure all people of the United States have access to broadband capability and shall establish benchmarks for meeting that goal. BluePrint Data believes Internet Filtering and Security is an important aspect of that goal and believe the Commission should include network technologies for Internet Filtering (i.e. Web site filtering / Parental Controls) as part of the implementation of sections 103(b) and 103(c)(1) of the Broadband Data Improvement Act

Internet Filtering technology and Parental Controls are provide by most current broadband service providers in the USA and other countries. These technologies range from network based (filtering via a proxy server or at a router or switch) to client based installations. Many residential consumers expect this type of service to be included (i.e. bundled) in their monthly access charge / fee. And some of the network services such as proxy servers^[i], caching appliances and application accelerators can increase actual data transmission speeds to the end user / consumer. Actual data transmission speeds increases of 1,000% and more are possible.

Filtering illegal and harmful content is important for families and especially children whom lack the cognitive development to “process” what they may find on the Internet. This is especially true when considering viewing Internet content in public spaces or across the public airwaves (wireless broadband).

Internet Filtering can protect children from potentially harmful or illegal content that may impair…

* their moral or social development (example: content that may have a traumatizing effect)

* their sexual development (example: sexual content that may have a traumatizing effect)

* their emotional and mental development (example: other content that may have a traumatizing effect)

It can also protect children from potentially harmful or illegal content that may instigate…

* damage to another (rape, harassment, etc.)

* damage to another’s life (murder, terrorism, etc.)

* damage to another’s rights (racism, sabotage, theft, etc.)

* damage to him/herself (drug abuse, gambling, meeting strangers, etc.)

* damage to his/her life (suicide, severe drug abuse, etc.)

BluePrint Data believes some form of Internet Filtering / Parental Controls is integrally needed as part of the Broadband Data Improvement Act.

[i] From Wikipedia – April 9, 2009 – In computer networks, a proxy server is a server (a computer system or an application program) that acts as a go-between for requests from clients seeking resources from other servers. A client connects to the proxy server, requesting some service, such as a file, connection, web page, or other resource, available from a different server. The proxy server evaluates the request according to its filtering rules. For example, it may filter traffic by IP address or protocol. If the request is validated by the filter, the proxy provides the resource by connecting to the relevant server and requesting the service on behalf of the client. A proxy server may optionally alter the client’s request or the server’s response, and sometimes it may serve the request without contacting the specified server. In this case, it ‘caches’ responses from the remote server, and returns subsequent requests for the same content directly.

A proxy server has two purposes;

* To keep machines behind it anonymous (mainly for security).

* To speed up access to a resource (via caching). It is commonly used to cache web pages from a web server.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proxy_server

Caching Appliances and Application Accelerators work similar to proxy servers with the purpose of increasing the response speed to resources including web site content and multimedia formats such as video.

JACKSONVILLE, FLORIDA USA – Friday March 13, 2009 – BluePrint Data’s Internet Filtering and Security OEM components provide security against the new paradigm of Internet Security attacks, Web browser based attacks. As traditional security systems such as Anti-virus, Anti-spam, and Anti-malware become less effective limiting access to potentially dangerous web sites becomes more important.

Traditional Internet security systems are becoming more ineffective and may become somewhat obsolete as more Internet security attacks occur from users visiting web pages. Since 2006 Surfing has posed a bigger risk than spam to company networks. According to Bob Dahlstrom BluePrint Data’s CEO, “There is a common misconception that e-mails constitute the biggest security threat from the Internet but the risk of infection is about five times greater for companies that allow Internet usage by staff to access the Internet unfiltered”

Web based client-side attacks are where the Internet attack paradigm is headed. Monolithic security systems will become less effective over time. Hackers and others use Web browsers as exploitation tools to spread malware, infect computers, and steal information.

“This is scary stuff” said Bob Dahlstrom, BluePrint Data’s CEO. He further said, “2009 has already had two Friday the 13^th’s, and with the Conflicker worm, cyber attacks by organized elements against countries and governments, and a 49 country coordinated successful cyber heist of ATM machines, Internet Filtering security is more and more relevant and critical”.

BluePrint Data provides its URL filter and content filtering database and technology and services to Internet Security vendors and companies. This includes Unified Threat Management (UTM), Managed Security Service Providers (MSSP) and Software as a Service (SaaS). We also provide Internet Filtering solutions and services to Information Technology Solutions Providers and Value Added Resellers (VARs) as well as Telecom and Carriers. BluePrint Data has the world’s largest 100% human reviewed URL Filter Database with web site domain reviews covering over 800 million web pages.

Tags: Abuse, BPD, Chinese URL, URL Filter, URL Filtering, URL Malware

BluePrint Data is promoting its private label Internet Filtering Solutions for Software as a Service (SaaS) providers. BluePrint Data provides Internet Filtering and Network Security products and Value Added Services to carriers, telecoms and ISPs and offers hardware SaaS and hosted SaaS solutions in North America and India.

BluePrint Data provides its URL filter and content filtering database and technology and services to Internet Security vendors and companies. This includes Unified Threat Management (UTM), Managed Security Service Providers (MSSP) and Software as a Service (SaaS). We also provide Internet Filtering solutions and services to Information Technology Solutions Providers and Value Added Resellers (VARs) as well as Telecom and Carriers. BluePrint Data has the world’s largest 100% human reviewed URL Filter Database with web site domain reviews covering over 800 million web pages.

“BluePrint Data is happy to be able to offer service and security vendors and resellers a high margin value added service.” said Bob Dahlstrom, BluePrint Data’s CEO. He further said, “We are dedicated to making Internet Filtering services easier to supply and sell and more profitable for service providers. Partnering with BluePrint Data can allow providers to easily include excellent Internet filtering capabilities to their security solutions and service and product offerings .” 

Tags: Abuse, Anti-Phishing, BluePrint Data, Carriers, Filter Services, Human Reviews, India, Internet Abuse, SaaS

BluePrint Data today announced the addition of nine new Language Web site reviews to its URL review system. Currently BluePrint Data reviews English, Spanish, Japanese, and Chinese language Web sites in full with limited reviews of all other languages. BluePrint Data completes human reviews of Web sites and categorizes and classifies the information within the web sites to its URL Review database. BluePrint Data will be adding Arabic, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Korean, Polish, Portuguese, and Russian languages to the full Web site review process.

BluePrint Data provides its URL filter and content filtering database and technology and services to Internet Security vendors and companies. This includes Unified Threat Management (UTM), Managed Security Service Providers (MSSP) and Software as a Service (SaaS). We also provide Internet Filtering solutions and services to Information Technology Solutions Providers and Value Added Resellers (VARs) as well as Telecom and Carriers. BluePrint Data has the world’s largest 100% human reviewed URL Filter Database with web site domain reviews covering over 800 million web pages.

“The addition of Additional Language Web site reviews is valuable service to our existing partners and customers and we look forward to offering it to future customers and partners” said Bob Dahlstrom, BluePrint Data’s CEO. “We strongly believe this can help make the Internet safer and it offers a new value add to our Internet security products and services”. 

Tags: Internet Filtering Services, Language, Languages, URL Review

LONDON (Reuters) – The kind of ratings used for films could be applied to websites in a bid to better police the Internet and protect children from harmful and offensive material, Britain’s minister for culture has said.

Andy Burnham told The Daily Telegraph newspaper, published on Saturday, that the government was planning to negotiate with the administration of President-elect Barack Obama to draw up new international rules for English language websites.

“The more we seek international solutions to this stuff — the UK and the U.S. working together — the more that an international norm will set an industry norm,” the newspaper reports the Culture Secretary as saying in an interview.

Giving websites film-style ratings would be one possibility.

“This is an area that is really now coming into full focus,” Burnham told the paper.

Internet service providers could also be forced to offer services where the only sites accessible are those deemed suitable for children, the paper said.

Any moves to censor the Internet would go to the heart of a debate about freedom of speech on the World Wide Web.

“If you look back at the people who created the Internet they talked very deliberately about creating a space that governments couldn’t reach,” Burnham told The Telegraph. “I think we are having to revisit that stuff seriously now.”

He said some content should not be available to be viewed.

“This is not a campaign against free speech, far from it; it is simply there is a wider public interest at stake when it involves harm to other people. We have got to get better at defining where the public interest lies and being clear about it.”

Burnham, who has three young children, pointed to the example of a 9 p.m. television “watershed” in Britain before which certain material, like violence, cannot be broadcast, and said better controls were needed for the Internet.

The minister wants new industry-wide “take down times” so that websites like YouTube or Facebook would have to remove offensive or harmful content within a specified time once it is brought to their attention.

He also said Britain was considering changing libel laws to give people access to legal help if they are defamed online.

Curtsy By Reuters

“Kidsnet is providing the same kind of rating”

Tags: Kidsnet, Rating, Rating by KidsNet, URL Rating

BluePrint Data, an Internet Filtering OEM supplier, announced today programs to allow service providers to do more with less in the area of Internet Filtering. With the economic downturn companies, subscribers, and consumers are looking for better value in all areas including Internet security.

We give you less – so you can do more

· LESS user interface – Employees don’t realize they are being filtered unless they try to access an inappropriate Web site.

· Less settings – Just click yes to install and you are are done.

· Less complexity - Install directly from your browser, no software to download, locate and then install.

· Less cost – with discounts and a “competitive switch” offer.

· MORE productivity – Keep employees off non-work related web sites.

· More security – 1 in 10 web pages scrutinized by Google contained malicious code that could infect a user’s PC. BluePrint Data Internet Filtering helps keep computers from being infected.

· More value, protection and simplicity - You are protected fraudulent and illegal web sites as well as “inappropriate” content such as adult sexual, alcohol promotion, and hate speech web sites.

Given the current economic climate and the need for greater value in IT spending, companies that OEM Internet / Web filtering database and technologies will receive a “competitive switch” offer which includes a significant discount from the BluePrint Data list price. OEM typically refers to a situation in which one company uses a component made by a second company in its own product, or sells the product of the second company under its own brand.

Many companies that provide Unified Threat Management (UTM) Systems, Managed Service Providers (MSP), Software as a Service (SaaS), and Anti virus, Anti spyware, and Anti malware solutions source their Internet / Web Filtering databases from a vendor such as 8e6 technologies, Fast Data Tech, NetSweeper, RuleSpace, Secure Computing, St. Bernard Software or WebSense / SurfControl. In addition some providers purchase URL information for classification from companies such as Alexa or Netcraft.

In addition, to UTM, MSP, and SaaS companies, Carriers, Teleco’s and Internet Service Providers (ISPs) can avail themselves of the “competitive switch” offer. Telecommunications companies that provide access to the Internet frequently supply Internet Filtering products and services free to their customers, both business and residential. BluePrint Data provides the full spectrum of products for ISPs from software only to fully managed appliances that are installed in the ISPs data center. Given that Internet Filtering is not a large profit area for ISPs BluePrint Data offers very low prices and products and services that increase average revenue per user (ARPU).

The BluePrint Data Internet / web filtering database can be used in any of these providers’ solutions. The BluePrint Data filtering database is the largest 100% human reviewed data store in the world. BluePrint Data’s trained and certified Web content review specialists have reviewed web sites that comprise over 800,000,000 URLs/Web pages (Universal Resource Locators, i.e. Web pages). This is vastly in excess of the number of URL’s that account for over 98% of the World Wide Web traffic according to Neilson/Net Ratings, a global leader in Internet media and market research.

BluePrint Data’s CEO Bob Dahlstrom stated, “We are dedicated to making the Internet Filtering component easier to implement and provide, and more profitable for service providers, carriers and telecoms. Partnering with BluePrint Data can allow providers to easily include excellent Internet filtering capabilities to their security solution while significantly reducing costs and increasing profits.”

Tags: BluePrint Data, Filter Services, Filtering, MSSP, parental control software, Unified Threat Management, URL, URL Database, UTM, web security

The Mumbai police, along with a group of enthusiastic citizens formed by Mumbai’s sheriff Indu Shani, combed commercial complexes, malls, office buildings and residential premises in south and south-central Mumbai to identify and get rid of unsecured Wi-Fi (Wireless Fidelity) connections in the city following terrorist attacks last year.

Terror mails were sent via unsecured Wi-Fi connections before the Delhi and Ahmedabad serial blasts. The mail sent before the Ahmedabad blasts was traced to the residence of a US national Kenneth Haywood in Navi Mumbai and the mail sent before the Delhi blast was traced to the unsecured Wi-Fi network of Chembur-based Kamran Powers Control Pvt Ltd.

Since the range of Wi-Fi is 300 feet plus, someone can create a Wi-Fi network at a cost of less than Rs 2,000 an hour. That is why using anonymous Wi-Fi is a very bad idea, explained Vijay Mukhi, an internet expert and head of IT for the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (Ficci). “We are the only city in the world where terror e-mails have been sent using anonymous Wi-Fi. We have seen their misuse and yet do not want to secure our Wi-Fi,” he asserted.

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