The NETyz team recognizes that offering Internet access in educational environments remains an issue. Challenges include:

• Protecting children from inappropriate material
• Ensuring network security
• Monitoring/tracking user activities
• Maintaining reasonable access speeds.

NETyz filter/firewall provides an extremely flexible safety net to ensure that children are restricted from accessing inappropriate content. Competitive filtering products typically rely on a single method to determining the nature of content. Our belief is that ‘near perfect’ content analysis can only be obtained by combining multiple techniques. Our revolutionary rule-based filter makes use of Site lists, URL Regex and document scanning technology to provide a level of filtering that is in a class by itself. Techniques have various configurable options and can be used in any order. NETyz filter/firewall comes ready to filter with a default rule set however, the entire system is completely configurable and can be customized to support multiple age groups or block any content you deem as inappropriate.

Internet use in schools has grown exponentially over the past five years. This has brought forward a number of grave security concerns. With the NETyz Filter/firewall installed at the perimeter of your network, many of these concerns can be alleviated. NETyz is a fully featured firewall that allows you to control data entering as well as exiting your network. By granting access exclusively to the services that you require, you can reduce the risk of security breaches and restrict activities that you consider as wasteful or questionable (such as Internet gaming or streaming audio).

It is obvious that schools require the ability to restrict access to illicit or questionable content. Often overlooked, however, is the need for an adequate logging/monitoring system to provide information on user activities. NETyz filter/firewall is equipped with a high capacity logging system that is capable of providing detailed reports on users activity dating back several months. Our easy to use internal search engine allows you to quickly find records by user, time, type, etc. NETyz’s monitoring system provides you with a convenient and simple method of ‘checking up’ on your users.

To add to the convenience and completeness of our product, we have integrated an award winning proxy server. As you surf, the Squid proxy server stores graphics, documents and data from the web in its 10-Gigabyte cache. The cache is then used to accelerate subsequent visits to the website by sending your browser any unchanged information. This allows you to leverage additional speed and capacity (bandwidth) from your Internet connection. In a WAN (wide area network), you can also combine server caches using ICP to obtain even greater acceleration and bandwidth savings.