Education-focused categories with dynamic updates for compliance and online safety
The Netsweeper AI-powered platform provides on-the-fly categorization for all content that ensures detection of new and emerging safeguarding threats.
Industry-leading database of over 3 billion URLs with real-time dynamic updates to education-specific categories including hate speech, weapons, cyberbullying, and substance abuse.
Categories are populated dynamically by AI – they are not static lists. Categorization occurs in over 47 languages. Every Netsweeper deployment globally contributes to the platform with over 150 million URLs categorized every day.
Gain actionable insights into students' online activity
Netsweeper’s analytics and reporting tools provide the insight you need to ensure safe online learning. Netsweeper reporting provides out-of-the-box logs and reports on access to the negative categories for monitoring and action. Reports are easily customized to allow administrators to configure the system to match their individual schools’ needs and reporting requirements. These reports can be scheduled to run as frequently as required and can be shared with other users with ease.
Off-network filtering is done on the device for all browsers and applications
Netsweeper’s client filtering technology ensures filtering is enforced on all devices (Windows, Mac, Chrome, Android, and iOS) and will monitor internet traffic on those devices, even when they are not connected to a Netsweeper filtered network. This enables schools to provide students with devices for remote learning and remain confident that they will be protected from online harm.
Filtering is done on the devices without the need to proxy traffic back to a central server, which improves performance and reduces bandwidth. This means that filtering will apply to any web browser or application, allowing schools to provide better compliance and protection across all managed devices.
Netsweeper Solution Suite
Student Web Filtering
Netsweeper nFilter™ leverages advanced AI to block millions of harmful websites to protect students on every school device, both at school and at home. Create a safe, secure learning environment and maintain compliance while protecting your students from malicious or inappropriate content.
Student Remote Filtering
As students learn more remotely at home, filtering across all device types and operating systems is essential. Netsweeper nClient™ extends filtering capabilities to school-owned devices ensuring the same level of web content protection and reporting as on-premise devices.
Student Digital Safety Monitoring
Having insight into harmful online practices can be critical to minimizing potential risks for students. Netsweeper OnGuard™ provides that insight by monitoring online activity on school devices, both on-premise and remote. By identifying potentially harmful actions in real-time, we provide alerts and reports that allow safeguarding leaders to take proactive steps for early intervention and to promote mental health wellness.
Student Web Filtering
Netsweeper nFilter™ leverages advanced AI to block millions of harmful websites to protect students on every school device, both at school and at home. Create a safe, secure learning environment and maintain compliance while protecting your students from malicious or inappropriate content.
Student Remote Filtering
As students learn more remotely at home, filtering across all device types and operating systems is essential. Netsweeper nClient™ extends filtering capabilities to school-owned devices ensuring the same level of web content protection and reporting as on-premise devices.
Student Digital Safety Monitoring
Having insight into harmful online practices can be critical to minimizing potential risks for students. Netsweeper nMonitor™ provides that insight by monitoring online activity on school devices, both on-premise and remote. By identifying potentially harmful actions in real-time, we provide alerts and reports that allow safeguarding leaders to take proactive steps for early intervention and to promote mental health wellness.
Why Netsweeper?
Real-time content filtering ensures students always have the best protection. Netsweeper’s AI-based web content categorization platform is the industry’s most accurate and effective solution to classify online content with over 90 categories and 50 languages.
Support for every device. When children learn from home, we need to make sure they are safe online. Our filtering solutions block the worst of the web. With coverage across all major operating systems, we secure users on the school network, at home, or anywhere.
Flexibility to manage multiple schools through a single interface with customizable administration tools.
Built for cloud computing models our flexible deployment options allow you take advantage of Netsweeper’s cloud infrastructure and scalability or leverage your existing on-premise systems.
Powerful logging, reporting, and analytic tools available out of the box or customizable for unique requirements.
Integrated activity monitoring provides alerts and allows you to protect students from cyberbullying, self-harm, and other risks.
Teachers acting in loco parentis are as responsible as parents when it comes to looking after the mental and physical needs of their students, which is challenging in a busy classroom. Using web filtering, teachers can control the content their students have access to and be alerted when students access dangerous content online. Learn more.
Protecting Student Wellness
With more students learning remotely, schools need to know if they are at risk and require intervention. Netsweeper OnGuard provides that insight.
The Netsweeper Difference
Netsweeper is a powerful and flexible platform designed to scale on demand to meet your evolving needs.
With over two decades of research and development, Netsweeper’s intelligent AI-based web content categorization platform is specifically designed for education with the industry’s most accurate and comprehensive artificial intelligence solution for the classification of online content. We work with thousands of schools across the globe to maximize student online safety.
Using our patented technology for real-time worldwide distribution updates, we categorize content definitions in more than 90 categories and over 50 languages.
Platform
Netsweeper has worked with educators for over 20 years to develop the features you need
Real-time content filtering and dynamic updates
We scan website pages in real-time and update users automatically to ensure students are protected 24/7.
Comprehensive policy management controls
Create granular filtering policies based on user or groups, content categories, time of day, day of the week, and more. Delegate policy administration privileges across the organization.
Powerful logging and reporting
Easy to use out-of-the-box logging and reporting features that can also be customized for detailed analytics based on your needs.
Granular social media controls
Manage user activity across social media platforms like TikTok and Twitter, both on the web or in-app within the same unified interface.
SSL filtering
SafeSearch
Enforce SafeSearch across all popular web search engines including Google, Bing, and YouTube.
Multi-tenancy
Netsweeper can control multiple schools from one interface and IT admins of each school or a group of schools can login to our interface to set their own filtering policies and generate reports for their schools.
Per-user authentication and directory synchronization
Integration with common directory services enables per-user filtering even with millions of students. Captive portal capabilities offer public Wi-Fi filtering and filtering of guest mobile devices securely on your network across all platforms.
How Netsweeper's Device Filtering Complements any MDM Solution
Netsweeper’s device filtering solution – nClient – works with any MDM platform, giving you the complete freedom to continue to use your existing vendor or choose an MDM solution that best fits your needs.
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