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A. The Fortigate is the Unified Threat Management system we have from Fortiguardfirewall manufactured by Fortinet. The Fortigate sits in front of all the internet traffic for all of the school districts and organizations we serve and does the network security - from web filtering, virus and malware filtering to more advanced protection features such as IDS, IPS, NAT, packet inspection, and other security features, all in one appliance.
Fortigate filtering is has both a people and software component: they have an automated system that does the initial "spidering" that probes sites all over the Internet. It does the initial classification, which is then human reviewed and classified into specific categories.
Sites are classified both by their DNS name (ie. www.google.com) and by their IP addresses, so sometimes when websites share a server, it can become quite complicated (more about this in the next FAQ). All the reviews sent in by Fortigate Fortinet customers are human reviewed.
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