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SpamTitan Technologies today announced a major new release of its powerful web filtering solution for businesses, WebTitan 4.0. The release includes a host of new functionality such as full transparent authentication, bandwidth management controls, delegated administration and reporting management, SNMP support and enhanced white labelling options. The new functions greatly improve the end user experience, ease of product management and overall business protection options. Full transparent authentication while using WebTitan in transparent proxy mode will allow end users a more seamless internet experience while allowing management comprehensive user reports rather than IP based reporting typically associated with transparent proxies. Bandwidth management controls adds to the corporate internet policy options within WebTitan with the addition of bandwidth quotas ensuring bandwidth is not wasted and adequate capacity is available for business-critical applications. With the increased popularity of media rich applications which allow users to listen to radio stations or watch video via the Internet in the workplace the provision of these bandwidth management controls avoid bottlenecks or severe slowdowns in the internet. These controls add to the granular nature of WebTitan and provide the added advantages in terms of cost savings and resource allocation. Delegated administration allows for configurable levels of administration functions within WebTitan and for these controls to be passed to stake holders across the organisation. With WebTitan 4.0 administrators can grant policy management privileges, reporting rights, or both to delegated administrators who can then manage or report on Internet usage for specific clients (users / groups). Delegated administrators with policy permissions can edit existing policies and create new policies making this a powerful tool for distributing filtering policy management and reporting responsibilities across an organization. Delegated administration allows for greater cross organisational participation in policy creation and maintenance therefore ensuring the most appropriate filtering policy applies to each user / group. ‘The web is getting more complex, thus the requirements within organisations for managing it usage and protecting users is getting equally complex ‘ says Kavanagh, CEO of SpamTitan. ‘WebTitan 4.0 has been designed with this at the forefront, balancing this complexity with management tools that are both intuitive to use and effective in their deployment to ensure our customers get the best end user web experience while organisations are fully protected from all malware as it emerges.” WebTitan 4.0 also includes a range of enhancements including SNMP support and improved white labelling allowing an organisation add its own brand and identity to the solution Pricing & Availability Available immediately, WebTitan ISO and WebTitan for VMware 4.0 costs from $850. WebTitan licences are banded offering greater flexibility and based on the number of IP addresses accessing the internet concurrently. A free 30 day demo license is available for download at http://www.webtitan.com/download. All WebTitan customers with a current license can move to WebTitan 4.0 FREE of charge.

SpamTitan Technologies today announced the results of their survey on corporate social media usage. The results show that 87% of companies would consider firing an employee if they posted something confidential about the company on a social media site, highlighting the need for businesses to implement HR and IT social media policies.

76% of SMBs (small and mid-size business) surveyed in a poll carried out by SpamTitan Technologies stated that they are under pressure to allow more access to Web 2.0. Almost half, 44.4%, said that they do not have security in place to protect from Web 2.0 specific threats. The business web filtering solutions provider encourages SMBs to deploy formal social media policies.

A recent SpamTitan Technologies poll has found that 80% of businesses surveyed (global sample) believe allowing workplace gaming costs money, this is opposed to recent academic research that showed allowing employees to play computer games at lunch, or during break times is beneficial and encourages co-operation and social bonding. Companies claim that distracted employees using social networking and online gaming during work hours are not carrying out their roles effectively and leave the company vulnerable to attack from malware and viruses which exceeds the potential benefits of a less stressed workforce .

SpamTitan Technologies today announced a new release of WebTitan, its powerful web filtering solution for small and medium sized businesses. WebTitan 3.60 includes a range of feature enhancements as well as improved application controls and administrator tools providing increased control and security in the Web 2.0 environment.

A calculator which measures the cost to companies of time spent by employees using social media has revealed that the average company with 52 employees pays out $65000 per year for non-work related social media activity.Based on the past 6 months figures WebTitan’s social media cost calculator shows that workers using non-work related social networking for a mere 20 minutes is the equivalent of paying out $65,000 or 5% of the year’s salary bill for non-productive work.

SpamTitan Technologies today announced that their award winning Web Filtering solution WebTitan now fully and automatically supports Italian website classification. This new classification is offered via an OEM agreement with zveloNET™ AutoCategorization (AutoCat) systems who employ a team of over 150 multi-lingual Web Analysts.

SpamTitan Technologies, the makers of WebTitan and the powerful yet easy-to-manage anti-spam software SpamTitan, today announced the release of a new Cloud-based option of its highly-regarded SpamTitan anti-spam and anti-virus virtual appliance. SpamTitan On-Demand is the first to give businesses instant access to their own private virtual appliance in the cloud.

SpamTitan Technologies, the makers of the powerful yet easy-to-manage web filtering solution WebTitan, today presented its Social Media Cost Calculator. The WebTitan social media cost calculator is a tool to help Human Resource (HR) professionals better understand the cost implications of social networking in the office, allowing them to approximate an annual cost of this activity to the business based on average salary. The Social Media Cost Calculator can be used by HR or IT to assist in creating a business case for expenditure on productivity measures such as web filtering tools, based on potential savings.

SpamTitan Technologies, the makers of powerful yet easy-to-manage spam and web filtering software, today announced a major new release of WebTitan, its powerful web filtering solution for small- and medium-sized businesses (SMBs). Release 3.50 includes a range of enhancements including advanced reporting capabilities and increased management flexibility allowing for data to be shared quickly between IT and the HR department as well as other management functions so that issues can be dealt with as required. This increased reporting capability along with the various installation process improvements make installing, setting up and using WebTitan easier than ever. Taken together with the fact that all updates and backups are automated, this means management overheads are kept to a minimum.