SmoothWall is first vendor to offer content-based blocking of Flash-based games
In recent years, flash-based online games have become extremely popular. According to Comscore, online game sites pull in over a quarter (28%) of the total worldwide Internet population with the average online gamer visiting gaming sites nine times in every month.
Organizations need to block online [...]

Web security vendor SmoothWall reports record summer sales
Leeds, UK, Internet security vendor SmoothWall has reported record sales in July, the Company’s most profitable month to date, with year-on-year growth trends smashing targets despite the economic downturn.
CEO George Lungley says growth has remained consistent throughout the recession at roughly 40% year-on-year with Q2 2009 up 18% [...]

SmoothWall Announces New Mobile Guardian Web Filter for Laptops
Leeds, UK, 16th July 2009:
Internet security specialists SmoothWall today announced the release of Mobile Guardian – a new software filtering client, designed to prevent roaming laptop users from accessing inappropriate and malicious web content. Although some vendors already offer laptop filters, SmoothWall is the first [...]

SmoothWall Launches New Guardian Secure Web Gateway
InfoSec: Leeds-based web security specialists SmoothWall are today urging UK companies to ‘buy British’ with the launch of a new rack-mounted web filtering appliance. Capable of thwarting social ‘not’workers and evil trojans alike, the new Guardian Secure Web Gateway is a proudly British product, with plenty of power under [...]

SmoothWall Adds New ‘Baby’ UTMs to Existing Security Suite
Leeds, UK: 18th November 2008, Yorkshire-based security vendors SmoothWall have this month added two UTM hardware appliances to their steadily growing security suite. Their new 100 and 300 Series UTMs are designed to give small and medium sized businesses the power and protection of a UTM solution, [...]

New version of School Guardian Blocks UltraSurf and other HTTPS proxies
National Educational Computing Conference 2008
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Internet security specialists SmoothWall announce that their new School Guardian web filter now incorporates pioneering support for blocking secure proxies such as UltraSurf.
Often described as ‘unblockable’, UltraSurf is a 100kb download that once installed allows students to visit blocked [...]