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Blue Coat’s K9 Web Protection is a free Internet and parental controls filter that gives parents control over their family’s use of the Internet. It enables parents to monitor and control what sites their children access and enables them to block offensive or potentially dangerous sites. K9 Web Protection relies on the same enterprise-class Web filtering technology used by Blue Coat enterprise customers around the world, and is wrapped in a simple, easy-to-manage software application that is compatible with both Mac and PC computers. To protect against newly discovered threats, K9 Web Protection is continuously updated by the WebPulse™ service, the Blue Coat cloud-based community watch environment that also updates Blue Coat WebFilter™ and ProxyClient® enterprise products. In this community watch environment, the identification of malware by one member is shared with all to prevent infections or other harm.

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Blue Coat Director enables you to centrally manage network policies and devices (Proxy SG Appliances) from a single, easy-to-use Web interface. With Director, IT administrators can automatically deploy hundreds of appliances, monitor and enforce security policies and respond to emergencies with the click of a button. Director also allows you to automatically respond to sudden changes in the network, including disasters and outages, so you can fix them before they impact the end user.

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Cisco IronPort S-Series web security appliances provide a comprehensive and easy-to-use perimeter defense against a broad range of spyware and web-based malware. Robust management and reporting tools deliver ease of administration and complete visibility into threat-related activity. It’s a proxy appliance built on Ironport’s web caching platform based on AsyncOS operating System. It can be configured via command line or graphical UI.

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The Blue Coat ProxySG family of appliances delivers a scalable proxy platform architecture to protect Web traffic and accelerate the delivery of business applications. ProxySG is built on SGOS, a custom, object-based operating system that enables flexible policy control over content, users, applications and protocols.
With Blue Coat ProxySG appliances, you can:
• Manage various proxy requirements across a distributed enterprise.
• Protect internal users and networks from spyware and other attacks.
• Significantly reduce bandwidth with leading compression, byte caching and object caching technologies.
• Accelerate application performance for files, email, Web, SSL, and rich media applications.

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ProxMon is an extensible Python based framework that reduces testing effort, improves consistency and reduces errors. Its use requires limited additional effort as it processes the proxy logs that you’re already generating and reports discovered issues. In addition to penetration testing, ProxMon is useful in QA, developer testing and regression testing scenarios. Key features: automatic value tracing of set cookies, sent cookies, query strings and post parameters across sites; proxy agnostic; included library of vulnerability checks; active testing mode; cross platform; open source license; easy to program extensible python framework.

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SquidGuard is a URL redirector used to use blacklists with the proxysoftware Squid. There are two big advantages to squidguard: it is fast and it is free. SquidGuard is published under GNU Public License. squidGuard can be used to: limit the web access for some users to a list of accepted/well known web servers and/or URLs only; block access to some listed or blacklisted web servers and/or URLs for some users; block access to URLs matching a list of regular expressions or words for some users; enforce the use of domainnames/prohibit the use of IP address in URLs; redirect blocked URLs to an “intelligent” CGI based info page; redirect unregistered user to a registration form; redirect popular downloads like Netscape, MSIE etc. to local copies; redirect banners to an empty GIF; have different access rules based on time of day, day of the week, date etc; have different rules for different user groups; and much more..

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SpyBye is a tool to help web masters determine if their web pages are hosting browser exploits that can infect visiting users with malware. It functions as an HTTP proxy server and intercepts all browser requests. SpyBye uses a few simple rules to determine if embedded links on your web page are harmlesss, unknown or maybe even dangerous. SpyBye operates as a proxy server and gets to see all the web fetches that your browser makes. It applies very simple rules to each URL that is fetched as a result of loading a web page. These rules allows us to classify a URL into three categories: harmless, unknown or dangerous. Although, there is great margin of error, the categories allow a web master to look at the URLs and determine if they should be there or not. If you see that a URL is being fetched that you would not expect, it’s a good indication you have been copromised.

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SSL-Explorer is the world’s first open-source, fully-featured, web-based SSL VPN server. This practicable remote access security solution includes SSL tunneling, intranet website proxying, access to multiple file systems and application launching/tunneling through a standard browser

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SPIKE Proxy is a professional-grade tool for looking for application-level vulnerabilities in web applications. SPIKE Proxy covers the basics, such as SQL Injection and cross-site-scripting, but it’s completely open Python infrastructure allows advanced users to customize it for web applications that other tools fall apart on. SPIKE Proxy is available for Linux and Windows. SPIKE Proxy requires a working install of Python and pyOpenSSL on Linux. This is included in the Windows distribution.

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Burp suite is an integrated platform for attacking web applications. It contains all of the burp tools (proxy, spider, intruder and repeater) with numerous interfaces between them designed to facilitate and speed up the process of attacking a web application. All plugins share the same robust framework for handling HTTP requests, authentication, downstream proxies, logging, alerting and extensibility. Burp suite allows an attacker to combine manual and automated techniques to enumerate, analyse, attack and exploit web applications. The various burp tools work together effectively to share information and allow findings identified within one tool to form the basis of an attack using another.

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