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Guardian Awarded 5 stars in SC Magazine

Wednesday 25th March 2009

In their January Web Content Management Group Test, SC Magazine awarded Guardian five out of five stars, noting it to be 'a dynamic and intelligent' web filtering solution.

Our software scored highly on features, performance, documentation and support and Guardian's configuration options were highly commended:

"We found that there was a lot of configuration we could do with Network Guardian. There are many types of policies and groups that can be created and configured quite easily with many categories already built into the appliance. This product can also plug into the existing Active Directory structure, which makes assigning policies simple without having to create new groups or users."

Although Guardian scored less on value for money, this was due to the fact that the cost of purchasing additional hardware was perceived as an 'expensive extra'. As we know, many of our customers save money by utilizing standard hardware - and can often leverage service agreements with existing suppliers to get better value for both hardware and support. An increasing number of SmoothWall's web filtering customers are also choosing to run Guardian in a virtual environment - where there are significant cost savings to be made (in addition to environmental and scalability benefits).

For more information see: SmoothWall Solutions: Virtualized Web Filtering

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