Smoothwall Cloud Filtering / Reporting

[mdking]

Morning All,

 

We recently moved back to Smoothwall for our Schools. We are utilizing the hybrid model for filtering and the Smoothwall browser for our pupil devices.

The cloud reporting is good, certainly a lot easier to use!.

 

Question, any ideas on a timeline for automated filtering reports to be implemented on to the cloud filter? Or how you currently can do this?

 

Thanks

Matt

[Joeloman]

Today you cannot schedule any reports.

I would be surprised if this will be introduced....Partly because it certainly costs Smoothwall to create these reports in the cloud and because it is extremely common to only create reports that are then never used for anything in many systems.

 

I think that Smoothwall chooses the way to instead, as today, alert when there are Safeguardning reasons to check reports.

 

It is likely that reports will soon also be created where changes in behavior are seen.

That is if new domains or different categories suddenly get a lot of traffic.

Hopefully, you can also set it up so that there is an alarm.

[tom_newton]

Prepare to be surprised Joel - it IS coming (largely facilitated by the change of tech provider, which was due to Smoothwall becoming part of the Qoria group) and probably before xmas

[mdking]

Prepare to be surprised Joel - it IS coming (largely facilitated by the change of tech provider, which was due to Smoothwall becoming part of the Qoria group) and probably before xmas

 

Hi Tom,

 

Thanks for the information. Looking forward to the developments for the cloud reporting side. And if there is any way of accessing this sooner, please let me know our School would be happy to test.

 

Regards

[tom_newton]

Email me ([email protected]) and I will put you in touch with the PM

[Andycat]

Do you have to use a specific browser for this?

[Joeloman]

As long as your browser is signed in to Google or Microsoft with your school account, Smoothwall Cloud Reporting will work.

[tom_newton]

Cloud reporting pulls data from your on-prem and your on-device filters. On-device works in Edge and Chrome, and will work in firefox at some point (we have an alpha)