Do I Need K9?

Did you know that there are roughly 30,000 new pornography links created every day? And something like 5000 new pornography web sites registered daily? And that's just ONE category! It's hard to believe, but we're faced with facts like these in providing content filtering for our enterprise customers.

Every family with children accessing the Internet should have some form of URL filtering. We talk about "family-safe Internet"; others might say "parental control", "content filter", or use still other terms.

With K9 Web Protection, you get the most sophisticated, and we think most accurate, solution on the market today for protecting you and your family from Internet content you don't want in your home.

There are two ways to think about effectiveness:

• Over-blocking – If the solution you deploy blocks lots of sites you want blocked, but in the process, blocks other sites your family needs to see, you have an "over blocking", or "false positive" problem. This kind of problem is especially annoying for busy families because somebody is always calling from the other room, "MOM! I can't do my homework 'cuz this thing you installed is broken...!" The practical result is that the product is too annoying to use, so you uninstall it.
• Under-blocking – If the solution you deploy doesn't understand, or "know about" enough of the content you want to restrict, then your children end up stumbling upon (or deliberately finding) content you're trying to keep them away from. Your goal of a "Family-Safe Internet Experience" is lost. The product "doesn't work".

Both of these challenges have the greatest impact on quality and value you'll experience. Together, they'll determine how satisfied you'll be with whatever product you choose.

Think of it this way: it's easy for a product to block all objectionable sites, if you block everything else, too - you can have 100% assurance that your kids will never see an inappropriate site. But they won't be able to see anything else, either. For any other experience, it's going to be a trade-off.

K9 Web Protection uses technology that is superior in both coverage (minimizing under-blocking) and accuracy (limits over-blocking). We have one of the best coverage rates in the market, because we can recognize and categorize web content "on the fly", even if we don't have a site in our database. And our technology is also highly accurate, because we have a more rigorous set of rules for judging a site (after all, we have to be able to teach machines to do it...), so we get coverage and accuracy WITHOUT over-blocking.