Securly Free

[theeggmaster]

Hi all,

 

I've just had this sent as a DM on Twitter from Securly. May come in useful for someone (or may be a money saver if you're currently paying for it).

 

Hey,

 

Thought you might like to know that Securly just made our Chrome extension free for all schools (and for all time!):

http://bit.ly/2tLryxI

If you think this is news-worthy (we think it is!), we'd appreciate it if you could tweet out a link with the hashtag #freewebfilter

 

Thanks!

Securly Team

[d_b_oliver]

Just a heads up, It is the chrome extension ONLY that is free, support and literally everything else is a paid for solution.

[Opendium_Steve]

I know I'm going to sound like a stuck record, but whilst systems like Securly may be ok for providing some superficial protection for school supplied hardware while it is off the school network, the UK Safer Internet Centre's guidelines specifically say you need a network based system for protecting people who are on the school's network itself - i.e. not a system that depends on a browser plugin or some kind of client to be installed on each workstation. So if you are relying entirely on a non-network-based system such as Securly to protect your school network, you're probably not meeting your safeguarding obligations.