How to Detect Phishing Attacks What is a Phishing Attack? A phishing attack is an email or a text from a hacker who is trying to steal personal information for profit. Hackers will either encourage you to click on a link (which downloads malicious software onto your device), give them passwords or other sensitive data, […]
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Do You Recognize the Negative Effects of Social Media on Youth? While the statistics surrounding the positive and negative effects of social media are inconclusive, there are links between increased use of social media and depression. According to Childmind.org, teenage and young adults (who make up the highest number of users on platforms like Instagram
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What is Web Filtering? Web filtering is software that controls or restricts a user’s access to content on the internet. It is also known as URL filtering, content filtering, and internet filtering. There are two different ways to block access to websites — by category, or by URL. For example, you can block categories of websites such
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The Top 3 Online Threats to Students and How to Keep Them Safe Summer is coming to an end and school is just around the corner. Many students, parents, and teachers are happily looking forward to the start of the new school year. Unfortunately, many students will suffer from online threats such as bullying, engage
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Netsweeper for Education: Student Protection for K-12 Schools IT professionals face a major dilemma when choosing a content filter, especially if it’s for a BYOD environment. It needs to be capable of filtering different types of devices and operating systems, handle SSL decryption, granularly filter web content, provide detailed reports, and meet government requirements. In
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DNS-over-HTTPS and Netsweeper Industry players such as Google and Mozilla (Firefox browser) are planning to implement DNS-over-HTTPS. This concerns organizations who filter illegal internet content like child sexual abuse imagery. The Internet Services Providers Association (ISPAUK) claimed that Mozilla plans to support DNS-over-HTTPS “in such a way as to bypass UK filtering obligations and parental
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You Can’t Manage What You Can’t Measure – The Problem with GDP Metrics in the New World Economy Perry Roach, CEO of Netsweeper and Economics Graduate of the University of Western Ontario The current method of calculating GDP is inherently flawed. The anonymity and globalization of what was once a clear concise market, easy to
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How Netsweeper and Project Arachnid Tackle Online Child Exploitation The Canadian Centre for Child Protection (C3P) launched Project Arachnid in January 2017 as a response to the proliferation of child sexual abuse material witnessed by Cybertip.ca. Project Arachnid plays an important part in eliminating online child exploitation by detecting known images and videos of child
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An Introduction to Netsweeper Content Filtering Netsweeper provides industry leading carrier-grade web content filtering solutions, backed by years of research and development, and is designed to excel in complex and highly demanding network environments. The Netsweeper content filtering platform has been built with the perfect combination of functionality, scalability, and reliability. Available in unique deployment
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How to Manage the Spread of Content During Online Crisis Events G20 government leaders at the June 2019 Japan Summit have agreed to look at implementing an Internet content blocking system for online crisis events. What does this mean and how do we execute this in each country and connect the world in real time?
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How to Setup a Managed Access Program for BYOD Devices – Part 4 When deciding how to manage BYOD devices on your school network, many challenges come to mind. We’ve spoken over the last couple of weeks about setting up captive portals and using a dedicated Wi-Fi network, but both solutions come with several technical considerations that may
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How to Setup a Captive Portal for BYOD Devices – Part 3 Setting up a captive portal can be an effective way to filter and manage BYOD devices. This technique is useful when a BYOD device is not managed by a domain controller, but you still want to identify the student, and apply their specific
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