Haptic Posted March 21, 2017 Posted March 21, 2017 Good afternoon, Smoothwall are the UK's #1 Web Filter Provider in Education. In January 2017, Smoothwall launched their brand new monitoring solution, Visigo, in line with the Appropriate Filtering and Monitoring guidelines as set out by the UK Safer Internet Centre. Join Smoothwall's Ben Jones to find out more about Visigo and how it can help you to protect against safeguarding concerns both online and offline. https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/rt/9114564747637560578?source=haptic The dates and times of the group webinars are below: Mar 28, 2017 3:00 PM Apr 04, 2017 9:30 AM Apr 10, 2017 3:00 PM Apr 19, 2017 3:00 PM Apr 20, 2017 3:00 PM May 03, 2017 10:00 AM Once you click through on the link above, you will be asked which webinar you would like to attend, for your name and for your email address. Visigo Datasheet - Haptic Networks.pdf This is a great chance to find out more information on the Visigo product, so take full advantage! Chris 1
pete Posted March 21, 2017 Posted March 21, 2017 Remind me if this is an actual SW product or a rebrand of someone else's tech? 1
Smoothwall_Christina Posted March 21, 2017 Posted March 21, 2017 Remind me if this is an actual SW product or a rebrand of someone else's tech? Hi Pete, I work for Smoothwall specialising in Visigo and confirm that this is very much Smoothwall's product and not another product that has been rebranded. We have worked with other solutions in the past but decided it would be better to have our own offering. Any questions please ask away Christina
Haptic Posted March 21, 2017 Author Posted March 21, 2017 Hi Pete, Smoothwall worked along side E-Safe for a good while and they were separate entities. Smoothwall HQ then developed their own product which is Visigo. So in short, an actual Smoothwall product. However, you do not need to have Smoothwall in place to run this. If you have Smoothwall in place already then the cost benefit is that there is no extra charge for Visigo Support. You already pay this with the Smoothwall product and so it can be is zero costed. Hope it helps. Chris 2
pete Posted March 21, 2017 Posted March 21, 2017 Does it integrate with SW at all? One of the problems we have currently is that $client_monitoring_software has issues regarding typos (so long as you're threatenng to kill yourself with correct spelling, it'll pick it up....otherwise*.....) and SW has real problems with RS lessons. Slinging SW + something else into a single pane of glass for safeguarding cross-referencing would be handy. As it is currently, we get something from $client_monitoring_software and then check context surrounding that time in SW. -- I assume "no extra charge for Visigo Support" doesn't mean "Visigo is free for existing SW customers", just that we're paying a one-off price for it? *I'm only slightly exaggerating. 1
Smoothwall_Christina Posted March 21, 2017 Posted March 21, 2017 Does it integrate with SW at all? One of the problems we have currently is that $client_monitoring_software has issues regarding typos (so long as you're threatenng to kill yourself with correct spelling, it'll pick it up....otherwise*.....) and SW has real problems with RS lessons. Slinging SW + something else into a single pane of glass for safeguarding cross-referencing would be handy. As it is currently, we get something from $client_monitoring_software and then check context surrounding that time in SW. -- I assume "no extra charge for Visigo Support" doesn't mean "Visigo is free for existing SW customers", just that we're paying a one-off price for it? *I'm only slightly exaggerating. Hi Pete, Thanks for your post, just to clear up a few misconceptions about Visigo. Visigo and UTM/SWG are very much separate products, however if you are an SW customer you do have support for free which effectively gives you a discount. Although they work well together, having them separately allows us to reach out to schools not using our filtering as it works well with other systems. Visigo is very much a service and not a software. The Visigo threat library is very advanced and has 55 languages and common spelling mistakes/slang/romanised scripts as well profiling features and clever software that is able to see the words in context. We also have an expert team who put alerts through to the school in real time. I hope this clears things up
Haptic Posted March 22, 2017 Author Posted March 22, 2017 Hi Pete, If you are free, get yourself on one of these Webinars. Ben will be able to answer all of your questions and it gives you a chance to see the service in action. Chris 1
FN-GM Posted March 22, 2017 Posted March 22, 2017 Hi Pete, I work for Smoothwall specialising in Visigo and confirm that this is very much Smoothwall's product and not another product that has been rebranded. We have worked with other solutions in the past but decided it would be better to have our own offering. Any questions please ask away Christina Wish you would actually get the main product in good order than going into other products.
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