Network Security First-Step, Second Edition

Content Filters

Content filtering is a subject so vast that its implications and possible solutions have spawned entire businesses dedicated to providing the right solution for you, regardless of whether you are a home user or a large business. Everyone seems to be faced with the need to filter some sort of content at every aspect of how they connect. Consider some of the challenges that have recently emerged in politics and the media:

• Public libraries and pornography: For some reason, there is a group of people who think people have the right to surf pornography on computers that tax dollars pay for. Making this issue worse is that they do this in the middle of libraries—the same place where children go to read. Content filters could be used ...