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filtering services



A key part of your E-Safety policy, the tools that help you ensure your learners and staff stay safe online. To support you in creating an environment that protects users while online, but also allows them to get the most from it, we have provided a choice of flexible internet filtering products.


product overview


RM SafetyNet Plus is a Becta accredited web-filtering product designed specifically for education. It provides robust, education-specific protection against illegal or unsuitable websites.

Our expert database and filtering rules are constantly updated as web site content changes, plus it uses Advanced Active-Adapt page-scanning technology for real-time protection. This is all in line with the results of our numerous proactive filtering methodologies and also vital customer feedback. The constantly updated data is automatically passed to all RM SafetyNet Plus establishments to ensure that you continuously benefit from the latest filtering protection.

Many establishments use RM SafetyNet Plus without customising the filtering settings, but you can choose to tailor the protection to your individual requirements. RM SafetyNet Plus allows you to control which web sites, web searches and file extension your users can access. Rules can be easily amended at local level, by authorised personnel through a secure and easy-to-use web-based administration interface - and these changes are applied locally within only 2 minutes.

To help make things easier for you to manage your filtering settings, there are a number of categorised filter lists which you can switch on or off. Examples of such lists include, web-based email, social networking and non-educational gaming filter lists. Alternatively, for optimum control, you have the option to create your own filter list containing whatever rules you choose to apply.

product benefits

  • Protects your establishment and your users;
  • Prevents accidental or deliberate access to inappropriate material;
  • Deals with key filtering issues such as proxy-bypass websites
  • Encourages pupils to stay 'on task';
  • Helps to fulfil your legal obligations and enforce your establishment's online Acceptable Use Policy (AUP);
  • Works with your school e-safety training for a balanced approach, and more holistic solution.
  • Tie in with education on Internet risks
  • Time based filtering


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product overview


Internet content filtering solutions designed and developed by Netsweeper satisfy a global user community consisting of Telcos, Service Providers, educational institutions, government organizations and OEM partners. Leveraging over 10 years of research, development and industry experience, Netsweeper offers superior industry technology that provides safe and productive Internet environments.

Netsweeper is driven by our core proprietary technology that reviews and categorizes new websites in real-time. This Artificial Intelligence based system uses the search activities and patterns of more than 40 million Netsweeper users worldwide to constantly identify new entities and threats on the Internet. With millions of new web pages being posted each day, our categorization engine keeps pace with the unbelievable growth of the Internet. Educators, businesses, Telcos, service providers and OEM partners depend on Netsweeper to deliver this service. As a result, Netsweeper has categorized over 3 billion URLs to date.

product benefits

  • Packet-level, real-time categorization of websites with Artificial Intelligence Engine and URL database containing over 3.8 billion classified URLs and adding about 15 million new URLs each day, keeps users constantly protected.
  • Centralized, web-based administration console that enables IT resources to simply manage Internet access policies, system administration rights and reporting.
  • Embedded web threat scanning capabilities, capable of identifying and blocking zero-hour and known web-borne viruses, spyware, malware and other forms of malicious code
  • Designed to categorize HTTP, HTTPS and FTP traffic into over 90 categories.
  • Proven to process high levels of throughput, suitable for large networks (200,000 request per second, 10 Gbps with a total of 44 Gb in one in-line solution)
  • Combination of client-server deployments that are flexible and do not require the backhauling of traffic
  • Premium reporting technology embedded that offers canned reports and custom report creation
  • Perfected ability to identify anonymous proxies
  • Small footprint with low hardware requirements and other capital costs (low total cost solution)
  • Advanced OEM integration options


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product overview

Further information will be available for this product shortly. In the mean time, please refer to the SWGfL Service Catalogue on ESI .


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product overview

Further information will be available for this product shortly. In the mean time, please refer to the SWGfL Service Catalogue on ESI .


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SafetyNet Plus

Netsweeper

SafetyNet Universal

Netsweeper Applicance
IWF Filtering Yes Yes Yes Yes
Time Based Filtering Yes Yes Yes Yes
User Based Filtering No Yes Yes Yes
Group Based Filtering No Yes Yes Yes
Active Directory Integration No No Yes Yes
URL Categorisation Yes Yes Yes Yes
Filtering Categories 11 54 11 54
Block and Report Proxy Bypass Yes Yes Yes Yes
Becta accredited Yes Yes Yes Yes
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