Let the games begin! Untangle, known for open source UTM appliances, is hosting another Fight Club this year at RSA. Last year, it was a Fight Club on AV protection, this year RSA attendees get to see good ole fashion porn blocking.
Untangle will host another showdown during RSA this year.
The event will take place during the lunch hour on Wednesday next week, at 12:15pm at the Thirsty Bear Brewing Company, a block from San Francisco’s Moscone Center. If you are attending, TTH will be there covering it as apart of the daily coverage this year from RSA.
Using an open testing format, Deep Throat Fight Club will test six web-filtering products for their effectiveness at blocking pornographic websites. The six web-filtering security tools being tested come from Barracuda, Fortinet, ScanSafe, Sonicwall, WatchGuard and Websense.
“No filter is going to catch everything,” said Dirk Morris, CTO and Co-Founder of Untangle. “So we’re benchmarking the industry to give everyone a better idea of what to expect.”
“Much like blocking spam, porn filtering is a difficult moving target. New porn sites spring up everyday. We’ve come to accept that some spam will get through email filters, but is that acceptable for porn in schools? Is blocking 80%, 90% or 95% acceptable for businesses or public libraries?” the company said in their announcement.
Untangle said that to help set a benchmark, the test scripts used will be made publicly available.
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