SCOTTS VALLEY, Calif.-SurfControl announced Project Nomad, a pilot program that will allow SurfControl’s enterprise customers to field test the company’s new Follow Me Filtering technology for wireless Web access.
“For the first time, businesses will have the ability to filter their employees’ Internet access regardless of where they are working or how they connect,” said Jim Murphy, SurfControl’s Web filtering product manager. “Wireless hot spots are the new danger zones for corporate Internet policy management. Project Nomad follows the mobile user and delivers corporate protection whether employees are in a hotel, the airport, Starbucks or any of the more than 3,000 hot spots nationwide.”
Project Nomad participants will have a thin client installed on their wireless devices, which will communicate with software installed on an organization’s own network and will filter Internet access based on the organization’s own use policy. The company said participants in the pilot program are evaluating the product’s security, performance and policy administration capabilities.
