BYOD Pupil owned machine filtering

[Chipie]

We currently use Barracuda firewall and Censornet for our web filtering. We now want to delve in deeper and setup keyword searching and alerts. Unfortunately it seems that this is an additional module on either device at a cost of more than what we are currently paying. Our senior school heavily use pupil owned devices which is where we get a bit stuck. There are web filtering solutions out there, but these rely on an agent being installed. You can imagine how that will go down, although Senior management believe they will be able to convince parents to install these, I am not confident in their persuasive ability.

 

Does anyone know or use any device that can sit between their devices and the outside world, that doesn't need any additional software installing, but will do keyword searching, alerting etc, and quite importantly won't kill my budget.

[TechMonkey]

I'd like to be proved wrong but I think you will find you are completely out of luck. With HTTPS, rightly, in widespread usage you will not be able to see keywords with out a Man In The Middle certificate or a browser extension. Without that you will be able to see the top URL they have gone to but not search terms, in page content or anything else of the URL.

[Chipie]

I have been searching and having demos for quite some time, thats the impression I'm getting. Pupil owned machines need man in the middle otherwise you are opening up yourself to trying to install software on their machines and all sorts of other issues that come with that.