Secure Internet Services help manage employee access to the following categories:
- Advertisements - Sites that provide advertising graphics or other advert content files.
- Message boards and clubs - Sites for online personal and business clubs, discussion groups, message boards, and list servers; includes 'blogs' and 'mail magazines.'
- Freeware / software downloads - Sites whose primary function is to provide freeware and software downloads.
- Online brokerage and trading - Sites that support active trading of securities and management of investments
- Instant messaging - Sites that enable instant messaging.
- Pay-to-surf - Sites that pay users to view web sites, advertisements, or email.
- Streaming media - Sites that primarily provide streaming media content, such as movie trailers.
- Internet radio and TV - Sites whose primary purpose is to provide radio or TV programming on the Internet.
- Personal network storage - Sites that store personal files on internet servers for backup or exchange.
- Internet telephony - Sites that enable users to make telephone calls via the internet or to obtain information or software for that purpose.
- Peer-to-peer file sharing - Sites that provide client software to enable peer-to-peer file sharing and transfer.
- Also the higher security threats such as:
- Spyware - Sites or pages that download software that, without the user's knowledge, generates http traffic (other than simple user identification and validation).
- Malicious Web sites - Sites that contain code that may intentionally modify end-user systems without their consent and cause harm.
- Phishing and other frauds - Sites that counterfeit legitimate business sites for the purpose of eliciting financial or other private information from users.