How to whitelist your site for corporate firewalls, so that the Fortune 500 can see you

Bank Security Guard by Brad & Ying. Over the last year, I periodically would hear from clients and friends at some of the large investment banks that they could not view Teten.com. Given the amount of "adult" content on this site is zero, I was surprised and annoyed by this. The site is not a very good marketing tool if potential clients can’t see it.

 

After further investigation, I found out that some corporate firewalls were blocking the site, presumably because they had misclassified Teten.com as a site that employees were using to search for new jobs.

 

Getting our site whitelisted took much more time than I would have liked, and we’re not done yet.  My colleague Taimur Hassan prepared a a list of the major web security and corporate firewall providers, and links to check your website’s status. More details here.

 

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