Content Filtering in Different Languages

[nathan]

Hi All,

 

Quick query. we have a couple of schools working through the 360safe mark and had a query about website filtering in different languages. Is this meant to be a standard in website filtering, we operate a few different filters in both Sophos and Netsweeper but i'm not sure either of these will filter in different languages.

 

Where i'm worried about is for schools with high EAL.

 

What are anyone elses thoughts on this? am i being paranoid or is this a real issue?

[DavidYoung]

Netsweeper categorises sites is many languages. You can see some of the top ones here: https://www.netsweeper.com/live-stats/

[nathan]

It was more on the search terms that have been an issue

[SchoolsBroadband]

Hi @nathan

 

Netsweeper does support numerous different languages including search terms.

 

Dave

[Wave9_Lee]

The XG operates its web filtering engine on categorisations of web pages, so no matter which website the user tries to access (in English, French, German, etc), these websites will be treated based on their category determined by Sophos (Online Shopping, Nudity, Auctions, etc).

 

If you wish to do keyword filtering you can populate the list with foreign language words.