ContentProtect™ Educational Suite Internet Filtering For Schools

Manage your company's Internet access, privacy and applications with ContentProtect Educational Suite from ContentWatch. ContentProtect Educational Suite includes three powerful functions that will help your company achieve greater employee productivity, protect employer/employee privacy and manage the applications that employees can run on your computers including:

• Internet Filtering through the leading Internet filtering application for small/medium businesses-ContentProtect.
• Privacy Protection (anti-phishing) through a partnership with CallingID™--a leading provider of Identification and Risk Assessment software
• Application Manager-a new application designed and developed by ContentWatch that allows administrators to control what applications can run on computer systems

Features and Benefits

• Small, Medium, and Large Network Content Filter
• Blocks pornography & other objectionable content
• Integration with Safe Search features in popular search engines
• Dynamic, real-time filtering
• Detail charts and graphs for reporting
• Web-based remote administration
• Email notifications
• Create your own custom policies
• Automatic Updates
• Toll-free Technical Support

Be sure to read about the features and benefits to:

• IT Departments
• Library, School, and District Administrators

Benefits to IT Departments

As a network administrator you have lots of issues to deal with. You need your web filtering solution to help make your job easier... not more difficult. Here is how ContentProtect Educational Suite makes content filtering of your network trouble free:

Increase Productivity, Decrease Liability

Filter or block any unwanted content that either creates a liability for your organization (pornography, hate, etc.) or hurts productivity (shopping, games, entertainment, etc.).

Dynamic Content Filtering

List-based filters must constantly be updated to ensure protection. ContentProtect's Dynamic Contextual based filtering engine analyzes content on the fly-no need to rely on static URL lists. Create custom URL lists for your employees.

Performance and Compatibility

ContentProtect Educational Suite uses the latest algorithms to optimize the users Internet browsing experience. It avoids compatibility issues with other third party applications (i.e. firewalls, spyware prevention tools, antivirus tools).

Fully Customizable & Controllable

ContentProtect Educational Suite is highly customizable permitting Administrators to create organization, group, or individual filtering settings for employees, rather than forcing them into a "one size fits all" scenario like some products do. ContentProtect Educational Suite can be used as configured right "out of the box" or can be customized for each employee. ContentProtect Educational Suite includes a "White/Black List" allowing administrators to allow common websites or block unwanted websites.

Rapid Deployment Tools

ContentProtect Educational Suite can be easily 'pushed' to computer workstations using Windows 2000 or Windows XP Active Directory or other push technologies. This makes network wide deployment fast and easy.

LDAP Import Utility

Import users easily from your LDAP Directory, making installation and the populating of the user list easier and faster than you might expect.

Remote Management

The Remote Management dashboard allows Administrators to view reports, make changes to user's Internet policies, and permit or terminate Internet access, all from a remote Internet connection. Administrator can also receive email notifications when employees may be trying to access, override, or in some way violate the user's Internet policy.

Integration With Popular Search Engines

ContentProtect 2.1 leverages "Safe Search", found in popular search engines such as Google, Yahoo, Dogpile, AltaVista, Lycos, AllTheWeb, and MSN. This new feature will increase protection against pornographic images.

Client Based

ContentWatch Professional is installed on a computer workstation or notebook computer. This ensures that whenever/wherever/however the user connects to the Internet, the computer is being filtered. Because ContentWatch products are client-based the filtering actually takes advantage of the client's processing power rather than becoming a potential point of failure as with server-based or appliance solutions. Small appliance and server-based products cannot offer this same benefit.

Application Management

ContentWatch's Application Manager permits administrators to manage applications that users can run on their desktop computers. In an age where employees can install applications on computers that may present security threats, Application Manager™ provides another level of security and application compliance to prevent these kinds of threats.

Privacy Protection

ContentProtect Professional Suite now offers a powerful privacy protection (anti-phishing) solution. PrivacyProtect, powered by CallingID™, empowers users to decide before they give valuable information concerning the legitimacy of the web sites they are visiting. This innovative solution displays key visual verification information about the site's ownership including its origin, ownership, date created, and any other pertinent information. If any of the information is found to be inconsistent, such as being hosted in an unexpected country, the user should rethink his/her intention to submit personal information, such as username, password and credit card number, or to place an order from that site. If the site owner hides its identity the user is immediately warned.

Easy to Manage/Maintain

Because updates occur automatically, and user Internet policies can be managed remotely, management and maintenance is less expensive and time consuming than server-based solutions, where IT staff must be allocated to manage and maintain them. Maintenance and ongoing administration is a snap.

Reporting

ContentProtect Educational Suite provides the ability for Administrators to view reports anywhere and at any time. Reports are stored in the ContentWatch Data Center (CDC). Having data stored in the CDC permits access to online reports from any Internet connection in the world. Administrators can check on the Internet activity of their employees from work or in a hotel room while traveling. Reporting includes logs of IM traffic, bypass or disable attempts, and more.

Perfect for Mobile or Notebook Computer Users

Because of its client-based architecture, ContentProtect Educational Suite is a perfect fit for mobile or notebook computer users. Regardless of how the user connects to the Internet, filtering is present. Without a client-based solution a user could simply bypass the corporate network by using a wireless connection or simply plugging into an analog line and using a personal dial-up service. This could even happen from the employee's office, making server-based solutions easy to bypass.

Peer-to-Peer Management

ContentProtect allows you to completely block P2P applications including: BitTorrent, Kazaa, eMule/eDonkey, and Gnutella, which are commonly used to download Illegal music, software, objectionable movies, images, etc. Note: P2P applications will not be filtered, but can be completely blocked.

Block Internet Games

ContentProtect gives Administrators the control to increase employee productivity by disabling access to popular Internet Games and other applications.

Budget Friendly

ContentWatch products don't require the expense of additional hardware (servers, gateways, routers, proxy servers, etc.). Simply purchase the software and install on your computers and begin filtering. Not to mention that ContentWatch Professional usually pays for itself dozens of times over in productivity gains and bandwidth savings alone.

Dramatically Increase Bandwidth

When unproductive Internet traffic is blocked, it frees up significant amounts of bandwidth for mission critical applications. That further increases productivity, insures more bandwidth for mission critical functions, and eliminates or delays the need to purchase additional bandwidth.

Multi-Language Support

To increase Internet protection ContentProtect now filters Internet content in multiple languages. Our new interface is also available in Chinese with more language packs available soon.

Automatic Updates

With state-of-the-art technology, ContentWatch updates users with the latest lists, definitions, and technology, as they become available. This process can happen automatically or manually depending on the user preference enabling the customer to have the most current version of the software available.

Toll-free Technical Support

ContentWatch is one of the only companies in the filtering industry that offers toll-free customer support. The majority of calls are answered and resolved within minutes. ContentWatch also offers email support with an average response time of less than twenty-four hours.

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Benefits to HR Departments, Executives & Business Owners

In your capacity as manager for your business or organization, you have responsibilities to improve the productivity of your employees, and to insure that they are provided a friendly work environment. Along with the fantastic tools and efficiency that the Internet brings, it also brings challenges with which every organization must deal. ContentProtect Educational Suite is the perfect solution that easily and affordably helps you improve employee productivity while helping insure a harassment free work environment.

Furthermore, employers need to protect their computers by controlling what applications can be installed. Oftentimes, employees who install applications that are not approved introduce viruses and malicious code into the workplace. When these problems are introduced they can be costly.

Lastly, you need to protect company trade secrets by providing tools that protect your privacy. Fraudulent Web sites will try to "phish" your company to get valuable information.

ContentProtect Educational Suite addresses these issues with state-of-the-art technology putting you in control of your computer environment. The benefits of ContentProtect Educational Suite:

Flexible Access Controls

Depending on your organization, you may want to allow varying levels of access to different types of sites, and Internet use. Libraries might allow more liberal access than grade schools for example, based on their specific policies. ContentProtect Educational Suite is a perfect solution that allows administrators to decide and control what types of sites and traffic to allow or disallow. Many other filtering solutions don't offer the same degree of control forcing your organization into a "one-size-fits-all" solution.

Value

ContentProtect Educational Suite doesn't require the additional expense of additional hardware (servers, gateways, routers, proxy servers, etc.). Simply purchase the software and install on your computers and begin filtering. You or your IT Department can install ContentProtect Educational Suite across your entire network in less than half an hour.

More Bandwidth for Mission Critical Applications

ContentProtect Educational Suite allows you to block major bandwidth hogging internet use by employees like Peer-To-Peer downloading and streaming audio. This frees up bandwidth that guarantees faster throughput for your mission critical applications. It may even eliminate or delay the need to purchase additional bandwidth. ContentProtect Educational Suite often pays for itself in bandwidth savings alone.

Regulatory Compliance & Risk Management

Schools and other public organizations must sometimes comply with certain regulations (e.g., HIPAA, GLBA, and SEC/SOx). Additionally, legal liability risks around users downloading MP3's and full-length DVDs on school or library hard drives are becoming a major concern. The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) and the Motion Picture Association of America recently warned corporations and similar organizations will be held liable for breaking copyright laws if employees or users use networks to download, store, or distribute music or movies illegally (Source IDC). ContentProtect Educational Suite provides easy to install and maintain solutions that assist with mitigation of similar risks, and aid in certain aspects of regulatory compliance.

Reporting

ContentWatch provides the ability for Administrators and/or Managers to view reports anywhere and at any time. Reports are stored in the ContentWatch Data Center (CDC). Having data stored in the CDC permits access to online reports from any Internet connection in the world. Administrators can check on the Internet activity of their users from work or even from a hotel room while traveling. Reports include sites visited, attempted sites visited, logs of Instant Messages and email, attempts to remove or circumvent the filter, and more. Managers have actionable data to better manage their network resources.

The Bottom Line: Content filtering is a wise and prudent decision for any and every School, Library or public network. Learn more about how ContentProtect Educational Suite is the best and most affordable solution for your organization.

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