Schools & Libraries

Internet Filtering Needs for Schools and Libraries

The Internet has become a powerful educational and resource tool that has enriched schools and libraries; but using the Internet can also expose students and patrons to images of violence, racism, pornography and other unsavory information. The NetSpective Solution helps school and library administrators balance the benefits and risks of Internet usage by permitting them to individually tailor each user's Web access to specific requirements.

The NetSpective Solution is highly flexible and easily customizable with a database that includes millions of URLs grouped into over 60 categories that is dynamically updated to provide the most accurate and current information available. It easily lets you monitor, block or report on:

• URL visits
• Use of streaming media and audio files, and their Web sites
• Use of Peer-to-Peer (P2P) file sharing
• Use of Instant Messaging and other online chat applications

It also allows you to apply Internet access policy by branch, section, office or individual workstation; allowing you to make children's reading room access different than the adult reading room, for example.

There is also a centralized management console, making the NetSpective Solution flexible enough to change policies and add temporary modifications to meet extenuating circumstances; giving libraries the power to respond to specific patron requests to access blocked web sites - and then change back to the existing policy easily.

With the NetSpective Solution, schools and libraries can:

• Facilitate CIPA compliance
• Enforce Google and Yahoo's SafeSearch feature
• Control Web site access by images and text content
• Tailor access policies from group to individual workstations
• Easily modify policies to meet patron's needs
• Centrally manage polices from a single console
• Block Peer-to-Peer file sharing and Instant Messaging applications
• Prevent access to streaming media that can put a drag on bandwidth resources