Trading with Schools (TwS) is a department within Bristol City Council which brings services across the council into one trading unit, to better support the changing needs and requirements of schools and educational settings. Netsweeper helped the Trading with Schools department manage internet access for 51,000 staff and students across 130 educational sites in the […]
We asked Matthew Coleman-Hamilton from Link2ICT to share their experience with using Netsweeper. How can Netsweeper help your business? As part of our business, we provide schools with Internet connectivity and we are an education ISP. The cornerstone of our service is appropriate education web filtering for that school. Netsweeper helps us to deliver that to schools – safe, secure, fast web access
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Cyber risks have grown more prevalent since organizations across all industries migrated to the online sphere. The educational sector is no exception to the risk. In August and September of last year, the number of ransomware attacks aimed at K-12 education made up 57% of all reported ransomware incidents — a huge jump from the
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How can you transmit private data online in a secure manner? Online security has become a major source of concern for many people, which is where the importance of SSL comes in. SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) or TLS (Transport Layer Security) establishes a secure connection between a browser and a web server. Many business websites
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CIPA (Children’s Internet Protection Act) is a bill enacted by the United States Congress in 2000 due to growing concerns over the inappropriate content, harmful and obscene content that children have access to online.
What Do I Look for in a CIPA Compliant Content Filter? Read More »
At Netsweeper, our data shows that terrorist and extremist content are on the rise on the internet — hate speech sites alone have more than doubled since the pandemic again. Our partner, the CTIRU (Counter Terrorism Internet Referral Unit) has seen a 7% increase in 2020 the amount of suspected terrorist content, compared to the year previous.
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Netsweeper is proud to be a longstanding member of the IWF and continues to support their goal of eliminating child sexual abuse content online. The primary goal of the Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) is to control online sexual abuse content.
Netsweeper and the IWF Tackling Online Child Exploitation Read More »
Geoff, our Product Manager, joins us to help dispel some common myths regarding web filtering. Myth #1: Web Filtering is Only About Control Myth #2: Cloud is the Only Right Solution Myth #3: A UTM is an Appropriate Solution for Web Filtering
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At Netsweeper, our data shows that child exploitation, cybercrime, and illicit content are on the rise on the internet – child exploitation sites alone have quadrupled since the pandemic again, and the Internet Watch Foundation has seen a 77% increase in the amount of self-generated child sexual abuse content. Now more than ever, web filtering has become a necessity to protect users on the internet.
We’ve been getting a lot of questions from schools and school boards all around the world about remote filtering, so we decided to create a webinar series that answers your questions. Learn how you can facilitate safe and effective remote learning in Part 2 of our series.
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We’ll be covering some best practices, the technology that we use, and how to make the best out of home learning for your students with the help of Craig Butler, the UK account manager for Netsweeper.
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We know a lot of people are interested in the capabilities of our fairly new technology nMonitor. We are going to showcase how it differentiates from nFilter URL filtering and dive into the reporting and alerting capabilities in this blog post.
