The Web 2.0 environment has transformed the way we use the Web. The depth and variety of online applications now readily available to Web users is extraordinary. Early applications such as Instant Messaging and file sharing have been joined by streaming multimedia and video sites such as YouTube, collaborative social networking sites such as Twitter and Facebook, voice over IP (VoIP) capabilities such as Skype and complete office/Webmail facilities such as Gmail and Windows Live.

These applications are often amongst the most popular sites on the Internet. They are also a major source of bandwidth consumption and non-business costs if left unmonitored. Our own research has shown that a typical organization expends anywhere from 75%-90% of their total Internet bandwidth use just on YouTube alone*.

iSheriff Bandwidth Control

iSheriff SaaS enables you to gain control of your bandwidth usage and ensure that high priority email and business Internet use takes precedence over non-business activity. iSheriff provides a range of features to achieve this:

• Restrict access to non-business, high bandwidth website categories such as Social Networking and Social Media. Apply daily bandwidth quotas to these categories to limit personal use or restrict access for certain users to out of office hours or lunch time.
• Place bandwidth restrictions on the size of files which users can upload or download via the Web or email. You can even define these size restrictions by file type to allow users to access large work related formats that their job requires such as PDF but limit their ability to download large non-business file formats like MP3.
• Gain real insight into your email and Internet use and learn which users or sites your business spends the majority of its bandwidth on. Useful and easy to understand reports highlight key bandwidth usage issues and are critical for effective acceptable use policy enforcement and user education. These reports enable you to appreciate the immediate returns that iSheriff SaaS provides.

*Trial iSheriff Security as a Service and see for yourself how much bandwidth your organization spends on YouTube. It’s free, there’s no obligation and it’s fast and easy to setup. With just a simple 15-day trial you can learn precisely how your Internet connection is used via security and compliance reports.