- Solutions: Primary and Secondary Schools
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In education, students and teachers constantly rely on the Internet to communicate,
do research, and collaborate in online projects.
Even without trying, your children can come across materials on the Internet that are obscene, pornographic, violent, hate filled, racist, or offensive in other ways. Look into software or online services that filter out offensive materials and sites. Options include standalone software that can be installed on your computer.
U.S. Department of Education.
Offensive material is not the only risk. Children are solicited for sex, sold products they shouldn't have, and routinely victimized by chain letters and hoaxes. They are also targets for all the other content risks that plague anyone who goes online - like spam and viruses - both of which disrupt learning and negatively impact the budgets of schools and households alike.
To reduce these risks, government and educators recommend putting filters on e-mail and Web content. But when it comes to protecting the learning environment, not all content filters are the same. Consider this:
Schools are likely to have a mix of computing equipment
They need content filtering solutions (Web and e-mail) that work across platforms.
Computer users and administrators have a wide mix of skills
Non-experts should be able to create and enforce an effective filtering policy
Education inevitably involves a diverse range of subject areas and interests
Filtering should be comprehensive, customizable, and current with current threats
Vicomsoft InterGate Policy Manager is uniquely suited to satisfy educators' total filtering requirements. InterGate Policy Manager works in virtually any computing environment as well as with the leading anti-virus and firewall solutions. InterGate Policy Manager is also extremely easy to manage - allowing experts and non-experts alike to create and enforce policies with drag-and-drop flexibility. You can, for example, easily identify and restrict Web and e-mail content based on virtually any combination of criteria including:
- Specific website or page
- Web content category (pornography, racist, hate, hacker, etc)
- E-mail category or message content
- User
- User name
- Group name
- Time of day
- Time spent online
- Bandwidth allocation
Standard and customizable reports let you profile Internet usage patterns before and after you set policy - so you have an informed context in which to manage your risk. You can, for example, find out what sites are being visited by whom, how often, for how long, and when. Real time monitors can inform administrators, teachers, and students when policies violations are attempted. You can also set rules about how you want certain types of e-mail handled - whether you want it delayed, isolated, deleted, forwarded to key individuals, or delivered.
InterGate Policy Manager also provides the most comprehensive and up-to-date content coverage. We offer the world's largest database of content classified by risk category covering both Web and e-mail. Second we employ adaptive reasoning technologies that dynamically extend content coverage. That helps protect you from threats before they become widely known or put into the database.
Platform compatibility, rule flexibility, and content adaptability - in education, that equals a total filtering solution.
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