Internet Management

More and more educational organisations are moving to 21st century learning environments using the Internet to enrich classroom activities, implementing one-to-one laptop programmes and allowing the use of personal mobile devices. However, schools also have a responsibility to maintain proper care of duty making sure students are not exposed to explicit and illegal content, and preventing cyber bullying.

The trend in education is to move away from just blocking and filtering, and instead to encourage students to explore new technologies and to educate students to use the Internet in a responsible way.

The demands of educational organisations on Internet management platforms are different from those of other organisations. The system must be able to support the school time table and deliver on curriculum requirements while identifying individual users' network traffic to enable monitoring and reporting to both teachers and parents. These high workloads and the intensive network traffic processing requirements, makes on-premises product solutions best suited to educational environments.