looking for a cloud based filter but without the need to spam a number of sales folk

[KK20]

With BYOD becoming more on an issue and a potential decision to bring in school leased devices for pupils, our onsite filter is looking antiquated in the changing environment. I know of lightspeed and securly. I have asked lightspeed and Securly for a quote already, however I know resellers often get better pricing. I dont want to be spammed to death with phonecalls after shotgunning quote requests to resellers. Does anyone have a preferred reseller then use?

 

Small school 500 users/100 staff.

 

Other than those two, can anyone else recommend a web filter? We dont need classroom management etc.

[DrCheese]

If you have Smoothwall in house already you can use their cloud filter

[TheRobins]

With BYOD becoming more on an issue and a potential decision to bring in school leased devices for pupils, our onsite filter is looking antiquated in the changing environment. I know of lightspeed and securly. I have asked lightspeed and Securly for a quote already, however I know resellers often get better pricing. I dont want to be spammed to death with phonecalls after shotgunning quote requests to resellers. Does anyone have a preferred reseller then use?

 

Small school 500 users/100 staff.

 

Other than those two, can anyone else recommend a web filter? We dont need classroom management etc.

 

Very similar situation to yourself, number of staff and students and moving from Smoothwall and just chosen Securly. I felt during the demo's it would be able to adapt to a changing environment if the powers that be suddenly decided to flood the school with BYOD and mobile devices. As with any filter there are pro's and con's but they seemed to be the best fit for us. It will be teamed up with a 1gbps/1gbps fibre connection so hoping the cloud based filter can cope with any surges in traffic. I didnt take the monitoring features of Securly as we are already using SENSO and all of its modules.

[Griff]

We use Lightspeed Relay here which I find really good. Its quite technical to setup and their aren't the most proactive at helping you out after installation but the filtering is outstanding.

[Securly_Marc]

Hey @KK20,

 

Happy to show you how Securly works if you'd like.

 

Let me know!

 

Thanks,

 

Marc

[KK20]

I have a demo booked with Securly and Lightspeed.