28 06, 2010

WebSpy Soho – New Alpha Release

By | 2010-06-28T08:22:16+00:00 June 28th, 2010|Uncategorized, WebSpy Soho|0 Comments

First of all, a big thank you to all our Alpha testers for downloading and trying out WebSpy Soho Alpha. We’re happy to let you know that we’ve just released an improved Alpha version with new fixes and updates. The previous Soho Alpha version will stop working on the 30th of June 2010 – to [...]

24 06, 2010

Annual Cost Calculator for Unproductive Internet Usage

By | 2010-06-24T07:59:39+00:00 June 24th, 2010|Sales and Marketing, Uncategorized|0 Comments

Ever so often new reports and findings on organizational cost of employees’ unproductive Internet usage are published. As a developer of Internet reporting software, that assists in reducing these costs, we naturally highlight the findings whenever we can. Simply to make companies aware that the cost of a WebSpy license is marginal in relation to [...]

18 06, 2010

Video: How to use WebSpy Vantage to report on IronPort log files

By | 2010-06-18T02:01:16+00:00 June 18th, 2010|Aliases, Firewall Analysis, How To, IronPort, Log File Analysis, Reports, Scheduled Tasks, Tips and Best Practices, Uncategorized, Vantage, Web Browsing Analysis, Web Module, WebSpy|0 Comments

I’ve produced a video on how to use WebSpy Vantage to report on IronPort’s Web Security Appliance’s access log files. It is quite a detailed look at the key tasks involved in setting up and using WebSpy Vantage with IronPort WSA access logs, and is therefore divided into several parts. The videos take you through [...]

14 06, 2010

Government sanctioned ISP Filtering & Monitoring – Is Australia going Orweillian?

By | 2010-06-14T07:30:35+00:00 June 14th, 2010|Uncategorized, WebSpy News Update|0 Comments

It was a bright cold day in June, and the clocks were striking thirteen as I browsed Google Sci/Tech News and came across ZDNet’s ‘Govt wants ISPs to record browsing history’ article. The Australian Attorney-General’s Department recently confirmed ongoing discussions about implementing a data retention regime in Australia requiring ISPs to hold customers web browsing [...]

11 06, 2010

Accessing Microsoft Forefront TMG's Log Files (SQL Express)

By | 2010-06-11T06:54:59+00:00 June 11th, 2010|Firewall Analysis, How To, Loaders, Log File Analysis, Microsoft Threat Management Gateway, Uncategorized, Vantage, Web Browsing Analysis, WebSpy|1 Comment

If you need to analyze and report on Microsoft Forefront Threat Management Gateway log files, the most common stumbling block is enabling access to the default SQL Express databases that contains the firewall and web proxy log files. The log databases are stored in an SQL Express instance named MSFW. By default these databases cannot [...]

10 06, 2010

TWIST Startup Meetup in Perth

By | 2010-06-10T06:31:08+00:00 June 10th, 2010|Uncategorized, WebSpy News Update|0 Comments

Jack Andrys, CEO of WebSpy (longtime sponsor of This Week in Startups), organized the first This Week in Startups Meetup in Perth, Australia, on the 8th of June 2010, at WebSpy’s headquarter. The meet-up attracted just under 20 attendees, making it the largest in Australia. A great mix of people showed up to present their [...]