Content Filtering for Education - Schools, Colleges, Universities & Libraries

Schools, colleges and universities are faced with a constant battle to police large, distributed, networks where it is impossible to have a teacher or responsible person overseeing all pupil activity online.

Students are notorious for finding ways to bypass web filters and fast to share that knowledge amongst their peers. Schools have a duty of care to provide a safe Internet experience for all their pupils and staff and need to demonstrate reasonable and effective measures to control access to the Internet.

Sites like Bebo and MySpace, are a key issue for schools and parents. Latest government CEOP statistics show 1 in 12 children have met someone offline who they initially engaged with online and 31% of young people have received unwanted sexual comment online or by text message.

Educational institutes need the ability to instantly block web sites, enforce acceptable usage policies on their users and have access to audit trails for entire user activity. CensorNet addresses all these issues and more, by providing a flexible content filtering solution that puts the network administrator firmly in control. Reliance on third party filtering from the LEA suddenly becomes complimentary to the additional web filtering and control offered by CensorNet.

CensorNet provides features such as accurate blocking of offensive and unsuitable websites (based on a database of 58 million known sites and real-time raters for unknown sites), blocking anonymous proxy servers (Anonymizers), real-time Image Filtering (a requirement to comply with the Children's Internet Protection Act - CIPA), bandwidth management, scheduling to follow school time tables and much more.

To learn more about how CensorNet can help your organisation, please click here to talk to a representative.