Robiano

barone:On demand = Is the term given to a service that is available as and when you want it all you need to do is turn it on. Like the new on demand tv services popping up now, watch a film as and when you want to. When applied to IT security this term basically means 'off your network'. An on demand service is delivered at the internet layer, therefore, taking away ANY need for hardware or software on the infrastucture. It is very popular in the private sector because it removes the complexity of having to deal with the problem(re:spam, av, email content, web access and content, web threats) and is backed up by SLA's(service level agreements). SurfControl's on demand email service, Mailcontrol, carries a number of SLA's 99.999% availability, 95% spam removal, 100% virus protection etc etc. Hope this helps....

Tom:Have you caught wind of their new appliance coming soon aparently, quoting May time I think. Sexy looking box! 2 x Av vendors on board + their threat database. Sounds good, we'll have to wait and see. The on demand solution is ex-blackspider, Surf bought them out late last year, very impressive indeed. On demand is huge in private sector. Seeing a lot of councils now looking at on demand, only a matter of time before the public sector catches up with the private one! Just hope the budgets can keep up!!!

I'll throw SurfControl's hat into the ring then, very attractive pricing for education. The best reporting in the industry, they protect over 500,000 in the public sector. They have Url filtering(22 million url's catagorized) and web virus scanning. Can purchase a appliance, server solution or in the cloud solution.

SurfControl Enterprise Threat Shield will do the job. Has app control(it's funny to see the end user open an inappropriate app then for it to close down just as quick followed by a report to IS html pop up!), spyware/IM protection and browser watch.

FYI Tom, SurfControl have an ISA/server Solution, they also have an appliance AND an on-demand service, off the infrastrure. Huge advocate off them as they can cater to any problem: endpoint, server or in the cloud!