8e6 Internet Filtering Products
The Internet has become an interactive
and valuable resource for students, educators, and school administrators
offering unlimited amounts of information from around the world. However,
thousands of offensive pornographic and inappropriate web sites are just
clicks away. This in turn can lead to legal issues for schools and their
boards as well as maintenance and bandwidth issues for network administrators.
While having an Acceptable Use Policy (AUP) is
a good first step, it doesn’t guarantee students’ protection from the
potential harmful information that can be obtained from a school's Internet
connection. The solution: An effective Internet Filtering and Reporting tool.
As of July 1, 2001, The Children's Internet Protection Act (CIPA)* requires
that any school receiving federal E-rate funds must have a filtering solution
in place. Since 1997, 8e6 Technologies has been one of the leading suppliers
of Internet Filtering and Reporting solutions for thousands of schools across
the U.S. at the district, county and state levels. A few of our currently
installed education solutions include the States of Arkansas, Wisconsin,
Florida, Rhode Island and West Virginia. With the 8e6 Filtering Appliance, all
school personnel are assured a clean and healthy computing environment
reducing risks of harmful content, legal liability and conserving expensive
network bandwidth.
8e6 for Education Advantages:
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Increase student and teacher productivity by removing access to inappropriate and distracting Internet material.
- Circumvent legal liability against damaging and costly lawsuits over accessibility to inappropriate websites (on purpose or accidental).
- Preserve network bandwidth.
Key Features
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Standalone server appliance dedicated to filtering and filtering only.
- “Pass By” filtering technology for fast and scalable performance.
- Easy to Install, Setup and Configure.
- Extensive library database consisting of millions of human-verified web sites organized into 75+ categories.
- Customize Internet access policies by user and group profiles by assigning different access capabilities (i.e. students teachers access a different range of sites than students).