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the cisco firewalls supports two filtering softwares only websense is one of them and the other is n2h2
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the cisco firewalls supports two filtering softwares only websense is one of them and the other is n2h2

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with websense., i would have to purchase the websense enterprise product -right?
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with websense., i would have to purchase the websense enterprise product -right?

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no you can only purchase the filtering engine with the client protection manager 
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no you can only purchase the filtering engine with the client protection manager

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correct me if i am wrong !<br />
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So cisco ASA supports filtering via thirdparty vendor 'websense'. And for that you would need to buy the filtering engine from websense?
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correct me if i am wrong !

So cisco ASA supports filtering via thirdparty vendor 'websense'. And for that you would need to buy the filtering engine from websense?

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yes that's it and that's for the integration only , you can use gateways which will filter and you can choose your switches to span the gateway port to another feltering engine and you choose to put any filtering engine as your gateway which is the best to go 
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yes that's it and that's for the integration only , you can use gateways which will filter and you can choose your switches to span the gateway port to another feltering engine and you choose to put any filtering engine as your gateway which is the best to go

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seems like a task ! Is it better to do it the CiscoASA way or should i just go with SonicWall / Barracuda? Price is not a factor. - setting it up an maintenance is a priority.
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seems like a task ! Is it better to do it the CiscoASA way or should i just go with SonicWall / Barracuda? Price is not a factor. - setting it up an maintenance is a priority.

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is the cisco ASA 5510 capable of doing Internet Content Filtering? or would you recommend going with SonicWall or barracuda or some other vendor?<br />
what about websense?
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is the cisco ASA 5510 capable of doing Internet Content Filtering? or would you recommend going with SonicWall or barracuda or some other vendor?
what about websense?

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