Additional Content Category – Internet Watch Foundation (IWF)

Overview

As part of our commitment to providing the best possible Internet security and filtering, we're excited to introduce a new category of content filtering to OpenDNS' Umbrella: the Internet Watch Foundation or IWF.

The Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) is a UK-based charitable organization whose mission is the elimination of child sexual abuse images online. The IWF maintains a list of blocked web pages to prevent internet users from accidentally stumbling across child sexual abuse content. They supply partners with an accurate and current URL list to enable blocking of child sexual abuse content. Now OpenDNS is adopting their list as a category that can be blocked in Umbrella.  For more information about the work the IWF is doing, read here.

To read more about understanding the category and how to enable it, read here:

https://support.umbrella.com/hc/en-us/articles/230672067-Getting-Started-Additional-Content-Category-Internet-Watch-Foundation-IWF-