With billions of pages on the World Wide Web, no one knows what's out there all the time, everywhere. With the largest and most relevant database of websites in the industry, SurfControl has a great start but not even the World's #1 Web and E-mail Filtering Company knows it all. That's why we invented the optional plug-in, Virtual Control Agent - proprietary neural network technology that updates SurfControl URL Category Lists dynamically.

On a scheduled basis or on demand, VCA uses both content and the context of English, German, French, Spanish and Dutch material to analyze and categorize the new websites your users visit. Using VCA is less risky than relying on keywords. And with the web expanding at millions of pages each month, no manual efforts could ever keep up. With VCA, they don't have to.

The problem? The Internet expands every hour, every day, every week, adding thousands of web pages a day and millions every month. And your users are going to uncover those sites almost as fast as they're added to the Web. You need a dynamic way to deal with those newly discovered sites.

Adding Virtual Control Agent improves web filtering three ways:

Quality:

VCA uses the latest neural network techniques to intelligently classify unknown websites into one of 45 categories. The VCA categorizes English, German, French, Spanish and Dutch content focusing on non-business areas such as "adult," "gambling" and "sports." The VCA is targeted to identify non-business sites that affect productivity in the workplace.

Relevance:

The Virtual Control Agent analyzes and classifies sites as your users find them; so new sites are quickly covered by the SurfControl rules that enforce your corporate Internet Appropriate Use Policy. VCA is multi-threaded so it can quickly identify the non-business sites that clog network bandwidth.

Coverage:

VCA's dynamic categorization combined with the URL Category List provides the widest coverage of websites and the strongest content filtering solution available. Wherever your users go, SurfControl reduces the odds of surfing to inappropriate sites.