The combination of Content Technologies' MIMEsweeper, a product that gives organizations the ability to block sites based on key words and phrases, with NetPartner's Websense Enterprise Internet content management, monitoring and reporting software, will allow companies to block inappropriate web sites and limit personal use of sport, retail, gambling and other sites assuring comprehensive enforcement of Internet policies. Between 19 million and 26 million Americans go online at work, each spending an average of six hours a week online-but experts estimate that 24 percent of all corporate Internet traffic is unrelated to work.
Employees often travel to their favorite web sites on company time.
Another recent survey found that 62 of 100 companies polled had incidences of employees accessing sexually explicit web sites-creating potential legal liability for the company. A key reason for our alliance with NetPartners is to augment MIMEsweeper's ability to keep employees from inappropriate content. The legal liability issues are inherent when people have free reign with electronic communication tools such as Internet and email. Websense is by far the most comprehensive Internet content filtering product on the market today, with a database of more than half a million URLs in 30 categories. Our teaming with MIMEsweeper will ensure companies of a near bulletproof system for reducing the legal liabilities and losses in employee productivity that often accompany Internet access in the workplace.