Posted: 14th Jun, 2005 By: MarkJ
BT has today launched its
Netintelligence Internet security software, which is a content and virus filtering service designed to help parents and ISP's keep the Internet safe.
V21 has already become the first provider to signup:
Designed for non-technical users, the product provides parents and small businesses with full control to monitor and restrict access to certain websites. This protects children from inappropriate content available online, and helps small businesses to comply with EU legislation governing the use of the internet in the workplace.
Netintelligence also allows parents to monitor and record childrens online activities, such as instant messaging, in real time to reduce the risk of exposure to strangers in internet chat rooms and the dangers of grooming.
These features, coupled with its easy to use, plug and play nature, make Netintelligence an ideal internet security solution for ISPs serving the consumer, SME and SOHO markets.
ISPs can brand the Netintelligence software as their own and can provide it to home and business customers as part of a broadband package, a stand alone internet security offering, or on a try before you buy basis.
The software provides real time, automatic updates of web site threats and anti-virus updates removing the need for parents and business users to perform these updates themselves. Netintelligence also contains data and information which prevents access to websites portraying abusive images of children supplied by the Internet Watch Foundation (IWF), the only official UK body that operates an Internet hotline where illegal Internet content can be reported online. The IWF data is fed into the Netintelligence central databases, which contain over 30 million inappropriate web sites, files and images, allowing parents to block access to inappropriate content.Netintelligence is available to all UK Internet service providers from BT Wholesale.