In This Issue:   •  New Products!
   •  8e6 in the News
   •  ER Announcement
   •  Technical Q & A
   •  Success Story: RINET

Check out these new products:

NEW PRODUCTS

8e6Client
The 8e6Client filters and secures off-site users from accessing inappropriate and malicious Internet content. As a software-based application that works in conjunction with an R3000 appliance, it’s simple to deploy, manage and maintain. The Client provides enterprise-level filtering for your laptops and remote employees anytime, anywhere regardless of their Internet connection.

R3000H and ERH
Carrier-class, high performance, fully redundant Internet filtering and reporting solutions in two easy-to-deploy 1U rack-mountable appliances. 8e6 takes full responsibility and ownership of the filtering and reporting applications, operating systems, and hardware—making the R3000H and ERH appliances the most practical and fail-safe solution for large, overburdened IT departments.

Threat Analysis Reporter (TAR)
8e6’s Threat Analysis Reporter appliance is designed to offer administrators or management dynamic graphical snapshots of their networks’ Internet traffic, supported by remediation tools to manage and control user-generated Web threats in real-time.
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2005: Record Growth, Strong Customer Acquisition, Global Expansion, Technology Innovation
8e6 Technologies announces a record growth in 2005 marked by substantial increases over 2004, a striking 95 percent customer renewal rate, strong new customer acquisition, the opening of two offices in China and the release of new hardware solutions for organizations of all sizes. Among the solutions released in 2005 are the R3000IR, R3000S and G. 8e6’s product innovation has always been driven by our customers and their needs, and in 2005, 8e6 hosted customer conferences for enterprise and education clients. To read the full press release, click here.
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ER 3.50.30 Release Announcement
The ER 3.50.30 patch is now available for customers running ER software versions of 3.50.20 or later.

For standard ERs, please go to http://www.8e6.com/products/er3/pd_er3_patches.htm. Administrators must first download the patch via the link on this page, and then go to the administrator GUI to apply the patch.

For customers with R3000IRs, go to http://www.8e6.com/products/er3/pd_er3_patches_IR.htm. The patch automatically downloads to the R3000IR server, but the administrator must go to the admin GUI to apply the patch.
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Technical Q & A

Q: How can I prevent users from accessing images through Google Image Search? Users are getting through to content from sites I have blocked.

A: Users are able to access images from any URL that is not set up to be blocked. If the image resides at an alias URL from Playboy's Web site that is not blocked—such as img4.playboy.com—that image will be accessible. To resolve this problem, 8e6 requests our customers to let us know the URL of the image that needs to be blocked so we can add this URL to the library.
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March’s Success Story
Profile: The Rhode Island Network for Educational Technology (RINET), a non-profit corporation, is a collaborative center for developing partnerships and technologies to foster educational and community excellence in Rhode Island.

Challenge: Rhode Island schools and districts asked RINET to find a centralized solution capable of supporting multiple high-bandwidth sites while allowing each entity to set its own filtering parameters and rules.

Solutions: R3000G

Results: With over 100,000 Internet users at any given time, RINET found the R3000G to be an excellent solution to keeping bandwidth congestion down and Internet learning up. Pam Christman, Director of Technology Programs and Services, says, “The pass-by filtering technology from 8e6 allows normal traffic and high bandwidth applications (such as video conferencing) to flow smoothly, while keeping students safer on the Internet." She adds, "8e6 was the logical choice for RINET in 2001 and remains so today. Use of the R3000 filters allows schools and districts to maintain CIPA compliance, which means that RINET members remain eligible for federal E-rate funding."

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