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Web Filtering & Parental Controls for Schools & Families - Securly. 5 Ways to Bypass Internet Censorship and Filtering. More and more Internet connections are being filtered, from public Wi-Fi and workplace connection filtering to ISP and country-level censorship.

5 Ways to Bypass Internet Censorship and Filtering

However, there are still ways to get around this filtering and view blocked websites. Some of these methods may be restricted by harsh filtering. For example, the Great Firewall of China is now interfering with outgoing VPN connections, although VPNs were left alone for years. Simplest Solution: Use a VPN Connect to a virtual private network and all traffic coming from your computer will be redirected over that VPN. Power Users: Use StrongVPN We’ve done a lot of research on VPN providers, and StrongVPN has the best combination of security, advanced features, and ease of use. They have apps for every platform including Windows, OS X, Android, and iPhone, and you can even hook up your home router to their VPN servers to put your entire home network behind a VPN. Casual Users or Beginners: Use SurfEasy or TunnelBear DNS Server Tor Proxy SSH Tunnel. Chromebook Management Software for Schools. WebTitan - Easy network security. Web filtering. WebTitan Cloud - a cloud-based web filtering solution.

Web Security - 100% Cloud-delivered. Umbrella by OpenDNS. Umbrella lets you manage the Internet experience on and off your network with acceptable use or compliance policies, putting you in control.

Umbrella by OpenDNS

Manage flexible, location-aware policies with Umbrella’s 60 content categories and an unlimited number of custom block or allow lists. Laptops can be assigned policies with different Internet access restrictions and logging settings based on whether they’re on or off your network. Umbrella informs end-users of the policy with branded, customizable block pages, and offers a feature that enables approved, delegated users to bypass these pages. Benefits Category-Based Filtering Umbrella’s 60+ content categories cover millions of domains (and billions of Web pages) to give you control over which sites can be accessed by users on your network.

Websense® Web Filter & Security. Websense Web Filter & Security is the industry’s most effective, continually up-to-date web filtering solution, powered by ForcepointTM ThreatSeeker® Intelligence Cloud that collects and analyzes up to 5 billion incidents every day, from over 155 countries, producing updated threat analytics for Forcepoint solutions at up to 3.2 updates per second.

Websense® Web Filter & Security

The solution ensures organizational productivity by delivering defenses against productivity draining web activity while providing the necessary security in a world of advanced threats. Most efficient filtering solution, receiving near real-time threat intelligence from the Forcepoint ThreatSeeker Intelligence Cloud Provides hundreds of controls for applications and protocols to ensure a productive and compliant network and stop threats Offers full port monitoring outside of proxy analysis Includes controls addressing viral, entertainment and surveillance videos, plus support for YouTube educational videos.

Virtela Technology Services Incorporated. Virtela provides cloud-based Web browsing protection for corporate users and enforces corporate usage policies via the company’s world-class security management platform for unrivaled visibility and control, with security experts that act as an extension to your internal team.

Virtela Technology Services Incorporated

Delivered via Local Cloud Centers around the world Virtela provides cloud-based Web browsing protection for corporate users and enforces corporate usage policies via the company’s world-class security management platform for unrivaled visibility and control, with experts that act as an extension to your internal team.

Customized and Managed Solution Virtela’s provides a cloud-based, dedicated virtual instance of web content filtering that enables concise, granular control of Internet usage with malicious content blocking capabilities and user-based policies. The service guards against the introduction of malware from websites, instant messaging, peer–to-peer applications and other sources – without upfront capex. Bypass firewall restrictions via an HTTPS proxy. Our IT people decided that it was a bad idea to access the Internet recently, and our beloved open-access policy was replaced with a block on all ports, with ports 80 and 443 (http and https) now routed via a proxy server.

Bypass firewall restrictions via an HTTPS proxy

No more getting my Gmail or other POP/IMAP mail, no more MSN, Jabber, ICQ, etc. Needless to say, I was peeved. I did some digging and came up with this absolutely wonderful little program called Proxytunnel. You see, if your network admins are anything like mine (and most are), they will have allowed you acccess to secure sites via an HTTP proxy. The thing with SSL and proxies is that because everything's encrypted, the proxy can do naught but just pass on your requests to the sites in question, and can't have any say on what protocol is used.