The product is free for home use. Businesses can license the application on a monthly/yearly basis at a cost of about $1.85/mo or $18.49/year per license. This makes K9 Web Protection one of the most cost effective web filtering solutions available.
While this may not be as robust a solution as other content filtering products its price point makes it a very attractive option for SMB's. Some advantages of the product are:
1. Difficult even for tech savvy users to disable. Attempts to turn off or uninstall the service require the administrator password. Unauthorized attemtps to shut it down will result in web access being disabled.
2. The product relies on an external database to categorize web sites. The advantage of this is that Blue Coat continuously updates the database so you don't need to. This is also advantageous because the application itself doesn't need to download and store a large amount of data locally.
3. The application can be configured to force all major search engines to use "safe search" options.
4. Reporting is built in for monitoring and controlling employee web behavior.
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