How to Block a Website

Learn how to block a website using BrowseControl to prevent your users from accessing unlawful, distracting, inappropriate, or unsafe sites on any internet browser

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Use BrowseControl to block websites
and content categories

Control Internet Access

Application Blocking

Allowed & Blocked List

Active Directory Integration

Category Filtering

Work from Home

Blocking Websites with BrowseControl

With BrowseControl website access permissions can be customized for your network based on the user or machine used to access the website, giving you a flexible solution for blocking websites across your network.

BrowseControl can provide an extension of your organization’s onsite Internet usage policies to laptops and computers running outside the corporate network, giving you the option to enforce Internet restriction policies for remote workers.

BrowseControl is best known as software for blocking websites on the internet. Aside from web access filtering, BrowseControl can also prevent unauthorized software use (games, instant messaging, etc.) and block the download of unauthorized files.

How does BrowseControl block websites?

A diagram that illustrates how a manager can control and monitor employee Internet access to become HIPAA compliant.

1. CurrentWare Client

Easily deploy our Client on your employees’ computers to start managing their website and application usage activities. Integrate BrowseControl with AD or manage your remote workers working from home.

2. CurrentWare Server

Internet usage policies configured by your organization will be stored on premise on the CurrentWare Server. This option allows you to strengthen security, storage flexibility and manage uptime availability.

3. CurrentWare Console

The CurrentWare Console acts as the centralized console for implementing your Internet access restriction policies. Set permissions to allow multiple managers to use the console to manage users from their own departments.

Installing BrowseControl – Web Filtering Software

Download the BrowseControl Setup File

Setup File Content:

CurrentWare.exe: cwServer & cwConsole setup
cwClientSetup.exe: CurrentWare Client Setup File

On the Manager’s computer, install the CurrentWare Console

Run the CurrentWare.exe setup file.
Select BrowseControl and Category Filtering.
The Installer will proceed to install the CurrentWare Server, Console and BrowseControl onto the Manager’s computer.

On the employees' computers, install the CurrentWare Client

Run the client setup file on your employee’s computers.
Connect your computers to the CurrentWare Server.
You can now control your employee’s Internet activities.
Repeat steps 1-3 on all computers.

Return to the Manager’s PC, launch the CurrentWare Console

Under the BrowseControl menu, click on Internet ON/OFF to control Internet activities
Select URL Filter to add websites to your Allowed List & Blocked List
Select Category Filtering to block content categories. .

The Benefits of Remote Power Management

Protect Your Computer

Prevent Users From Visiting Malicious Websites

Even the most careful internet users can inadvertently infect their network with malware by visiting malicious websites. These websites can install malicious programs on your devices without the knowledge of your users, potentially leading to the leak of personally identifiable information (PII) and the loss of files to ransomware.

BrowseControl’s category filtering add-on includes categories for proactively blocking known or potentially dangerous websites, giving your organization an extra layer of security for your data loss prevention plan.

Improve Network Performance

Increase Internet Speed

If your organization relies on a stable internet connection to keep things running smoothly, then you know the importance of investing in the bandwidth needed for your operations. Employees and users downloading large files, playing video games, and streaming videos not related to their work all contribute to clogging of the available network bandwidth, significantly reducing your network performance.

Organizations that proactively block bandwidth-hogging websites with BrowseControl save their limited bandwidth for what matters most to them – video conferencing, work-related video streaming, research, and more.

Block Distracting Websites

Increase Employee Productivity

Use BrowseControl to increase the productivity of your employees and the profitability of your organization by reducing undesirable distractions such as applications and websites for social media, news, and games.

BrowseControl’s customizable solutions allow your organization to customize access permissions based on your needs. Scheduled restrictions allow for looser restrictions during designated times, and user-based restriction settings ensure that everyone in your organization has access to the websites and applications they truly need.

FEATURE OVERVIEW

Block Websites with BrowseControl

Method 1:

Block Websites with Blocked Lists

Select the computer(s) or user(s) that you would like to block from using a specific website
Set “Internet” to “On” if it is not already on
Go to “URL Filter”
Add the domain URL (www.NameOfWebsiteToBlock.com) of the specific website you would like to block for the chosen computer(s) and/or user(s)

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Method 2:

Block Websites by Category Filtering

Select the computer(s) or user(s) that you would like to block from using a specific website
Set “Internet” to “On” if it is not already on
Go to “Category Filtering”
Add the categories you would like to block (ex. “Social Media” to the Blocked Category List

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Method 3:

Allow Authorized Websites Only Using the Allowed List

Select the computer(s) or user(s) that you would like to block from using a specific website
Set “Internet” to “Off”
Go to “URL Filter”
Add the allowed websites to the Allowed List

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For SMBs, SMEs & Large Enterprises

Scalable Solutions, Centralized Console, Remote Client Install and Offsite Management

CurrentWare’s software can be deployed remotely and managed from a centralized console. Whether you are a small-to-medium-sized business (SMB), a mid-market small-to-medium enterprise (SME), or a large enterprise with thousands of units to manage, BrowseControl and all of the other programs in the CurrentWare Suite offers solutions to manage all of the users and computers across your organization.

Whether you are managing 5 or 5000 computers, you can enjoy the benefits of internet filtering with BrowseControl combined with the efficiency of CurrentWare’s centralized console to manage the internet access of your entire organization from a single machine.

Ensure your organization’s web filtering policies are enforced for remote workers. The offsite management capabilities of the CurrentWare centralized console lets you enforce your BrowseControl policies wherever your employees work.