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Prevent evasion by proxies, immediately block new malicious websites, reduce bandwidth usage, and save your school money with the easy-to-install, easy-to-manage eSoft family of security appliances.

Safe Web 2.0 Access

Promote learning with easily managed access to online learning an collaborative resources.

Complete Reporting

Widely recognized as the industry's leading graphical reporting tool, eSoft's ThreatMonitor was designed to help administrators understand network and threat activity.

World Class Technical Support

24/7 U.S. based technical support with access to level 3 engineers.

Additional Features:

• Per-appliance licensing -- no per-user fees
• Extensive and fresh block lists for phishing, compromised, and virus/spyware/exploit hosting websites
• Real-time feed of new malicious sites
• Instant Messaging and Peer-To-Peer application security
• Blockable website categories include social networking, streaming music, pornography, violence, gambling, mature, and more
• Industry-leading reporting
• Over 100 million URLs in 53 categories
• Graphical ThreatMonitor™ reporting and management
• Education discounts and E-Rate funding support
• Gateway Anti-Virus and Intrusion Prevention
• Group-based time/day policies with transparent authentication
• Active Directory integration

Safe Browsing & Web Security Solutions

It is increasingly common for hackers and identity thieves to target schools, teachers and students. Malevolent websites laden with spyware, malware, or fraudulent theft identity sites are frequently targeted directly at children. eSoft identifies and provides real-time protection for schools from thousands of new malicious websites every day and allows school and library administrators to completely protect their network from new threats.

eSoft optionally blocks viruses at the gateway before they reach network computers, disallows Instant Messaging file transfers and blocks MP3s, streaming video, Peer-to-Peer (P2P) uploads and downloads.

Compliance with Federal Law – Internet Content Filtering/Blocking

In the U.S., public schools, private non-profit schools with endowments of less than $50 million, and libraries are all subject to the Children’s Internet Protection Act (also known as CIPA or HR4577). CIPA is a federal law that requires recipients of funds from the FCC’s E-Rate program to block minors from accessing specific types of content, monitor minors’ Internet activity, and assure their safety when using Instant Messaging, email, and chat rooms. E-Rate funds can save schools up to 90 percent on telecommunications services and networking equipment, so failure to enact measures that monitor and filter web use can be expensive for schools and libraries. eSoft’s Web ThreatPak gives schools the ability to fully comply with CIPA.

Easy To Manage

eSoft’s management interface is acclaimed for its ease of use, and its ability to simplify complex security and network management tasks. School IT staff is freed up to focus on other activities. Plus, since eSoft’s web filtering solution sits on a security appliance, there’s no need to worry about hardware and compatibility issues.

Reduced Legal Liability

In addition to the legal, financial, political, and parental pressure on schools to implement Internet usage controls, there is the added incentive of reducing the risk of litigation. Schools and libraries that allow obscene images to be displayed on computers open themselves up to sexual harassment lawsuits. Students who download illegal software, illegal music and videos, etc., also put the school at risk of legal action from copyright holders. By implementing eSoft’s Web ThreatPak and blocking at-risk applications and website categories, schools can mitigate the risk of legal action.

Flexible Policy Settings

IT administrators may customize Internet usage policies by user and group. Teachers can have one policy while students utilize another policy. With Active Directory integration, setup and ongoing administration is a snap. Additionally, the Web ThreatPak enforces safe search on major search engines such as Google.

Conserve and Manage Expensive Bandwidth

MP3s, streaming video, P2Papplications, and online games require a great deal of bandwidth and can affect other students' ability to use the Internet for educational purposes. With eSoft, schools can block P2P applications as well as websites dedicated to streaming videos and music. Plus, on the InstaGate, administrators can setup QoS policies to prioritize bandwidth usage on a per-computer or per-application basis. To further optimize bandwidth usage and accelerate performance (sometimes called WAN acceleration), eSoft caches common web pages and graphics.

Award-Winning Reporting with ThreatMonitor

In an educational environment, administrators must be aware of what is happening on their network. eSoft's ThreatMonitor provides the industry's best single screen overview of a network. eSoft's Intrusion Prevention monitors for evidence of bot and worm infections on the local network as well as stopping hackers cold.

Free 15 Day Evaluation

To learn more about eSoft products, please browse our network security appliances. If you are interested in viewing an online demo or getting a security appliance that you can setup and test on your local network, please contact an eSoft sales rep. An evaluation appliance can be sent to you for 15 days with no obligation on your part.

Please contact an eSoft sales rep for more information about how we can provide network security to your educational institution.