Questions are never indiscreet

ANSWERS SOME TIMES ARE

Protect against the indiscreet answers of the Internet

“Nine out of 10 children aged between eight and 16 have viewed pornography on the Internet. In most cases, the sex sites were accessed unintentionally.” LSE 2002

“26 popular children's characters, such as Pokemon, My Little Pony and Action Man, revealed thousands of links to porn sites. 30% of which were hard-core.” Envisional 2000

“70% of porn traffic occurs between 9- 5”The Industry Standard

“Worker Internet misuse ‘a problem’: two-thirds of companies have disciplined employees”

CBS Marketwarch

Consequences of pornography: – Resource misuse costs.

– Reduced employee productivity.– Exposure to legal liabilities. .

"The employer is vicariously liable. An employer should make sure that the people it employs know how to behave and if they're causing offence to others then they should do something about it,"

Sarah Veale of the TUC – on BBC Radio

"Today's change will force employers to take their responsibilities towards providing a harassment-free working environment more seriously. “

TUC general secretary Brendan Barber

The Guardware Solution

“Cyber Snoop, CYBERsitter and Optenet are the 3 tools that are in the lead of our evaluation. But nevertheless Cyber Snoop and especially CYBERsitter are not the best tools from a blocking effectiveness point of view (respectively 65% and 46%). On the other hand, Optenet is the best tool from a blocking effectiveness point of view only (79%).”

European Union Report - A European prototype NetProtect of Internet Access Filtering, 2002.

Guardware are “96% Accurate on WWW”“Internet Pornography & its Social Impact”

Dr. Mishaal Al Kadhi Director General of Internet Services Unit, Saudi Arabia

Protection for

For Home, Educational & ISP Users

Image Analysis• Decoding of video files.

– Analysis of DVDs as they are being played.

• Fast image filter.– Up to 100 images per second. No need to fully decode.

• Full Analysis

Decision

Skin Tones Skin Textures Edges Blobs Limbs Faces

Text Analysis

• Bayesian network classifier was developed and implemented in ScreenShield™:– Words / phrases considered in the context

of other words / phrases.– Unicode architecture– Supports Arabic, Thai, Russian, French &

German.

• More accurate than the simplistic keyword approach implemented in most filters.

WITHOUT e-Safe

WITH e-Safe

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iShield can prevent children from accessing porn sites accidentally (or on purpose), and it's very easy to install and use. I ts image recognition isn't perfect, but it is quite good.

Can block porn images or the entire page. Offers an option that can either warn users or record porn-surfing silently. Administrator can whitelist or blacklist sites.

Occasionally blocks innocuous images. Crashed IE on processing some inappropriate sites. Can slow the loading of image-rich sites. iShield

Awards & RecognitionPIKOM Computimes ICT Awards 2004 - WINNER“ICT Product of the Year”

MSC - Asia Pacific ICT Awards 2004 - WINNER“Best of Applications and Infrastructure Tools”

International Asia Pacific ICT Awards 2004 Hong Kong - MERIT AWARD“Best of Applications and Infrastructure Tools”

MSC - APICTA 2003 - MERIT AWARD“Best of R&D”

Asian Innovation Awards 2004 - FINALIST Far East Economic Review“Improving Productivity, Efficiency & Quality of Life”

Asian Conference on Computer Vision 2004 28-30 January 2004, Juju Island, Korea.Detecting Pornographic Images

MSC-APICTA 2005, Malaysia – WINNERURLChecker "Best of Application and Infrastructure Tools”

APICTA 2008, SS3 - WINNER“e-Community & e-Inclusion' category”

“Surprisingly, perhaps, it works brilliantly”

 

Mr. Supachai Chearavanont, President and CEO of True Corporation Plc, Thailand’s Largest ISP Mr. Manas Vongsuvan, CEO of Compumation Co Ltd

TRUE Corporation is using iShield for its users on subscription basis. (TRUE ISP using iShield by name of WHITENET www.asianet.co.th)

3rd May, 2005 Launch of "WhiteNet" (iShield) in Bangkok, Thailand.

26th July 2005 - Senior Systems Consultant, Muhammad Anis Ur Rehman With

Dr. Mishaal Al Kadhi, Deputy Director General Internet Service Units signing-off the project "URLChecker" in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

ULR Checker Project – Saudi Arabia

“Over the past four months, it has been my distinct pleasure to work closely with APIIT in the development of the URLChecker product (Automatic Porn URL Classifier). 

I have found the company and it’s employees to be professional, responsive and knowledgeable.

 I am very happy with the way the project was handled both administratively and technically, I look forward to have the opportunity to work with them on other projects again in the future"

Dr. Mishaal Al KadhiDeputy Director GeneralInternet Services UnitKing Abdul Aziz City of Science & Technology, Saudi Arabia

Agreement with AwalNet ISPSaudi Arabia

23rd May 2005 - Arabian Internet and Communications Services Company (AwalNet) President Mr. Abdallah Aldubaikhi (Left), Guardware CEO & Chairman Mr. Ian McKinley (Middle), Muhammad Anis Ur Rehman (Right) Senior Systems Consultant APIIT R&D is signing the Distribution Agreement for Guardware products in Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

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The ScreenShield™ SuiteEnterprise - Client / Server application: (Sold in UK as e-safe Prism)

Captures and analyses everything displayed on the screen and stored within the hard-drive for pornographic material. Customisable to suit the needs of organisations. Remote management and viewing of incidences via the Internet. E-safe Prism is a total GRC Management solution

Browser plug-in: (Sold in UK as e-Safe Screen)

Replaces pornographic images in web-pages with a neutral image. Records URLs of pornographic pages visited.

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Standalone: (Sold in UK as e-safe Protect)

Captures and analyses everything displayed on the screen and stored within the hard-drive for pornographic material on a standalone machine.™

URLChecker

A robot application that automatically searches out and categorizes websites as being i) highly likely to be pornographic, ii) highly likely to be non-pornographic, or iii) boundary (requiring manual categorisation). It maintains a database of previously categorized websites, allowing the entries to be edited using a web interface and the contents to be exported into a suitably structured file for uploading to third party URL blocking solutions. Designed for ISP & Large Corporate / Educational installation

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