Web Content Filtering Policy
Hi all, At the institution where I work we have Forcepoint web content filtering. We also have Google, YouTube and Bing SafeSearch/Restricted mode enforced. A working group from our senior management...
View ArticleHardware Firewalls
If we were to get a dedicated line into our school instead of the LEA broadband what would people advise for a firewall? Many moons ago we used to use an ISA box - but this was software based. What...
View ArticleInternet Filtering Discussion
Hello A bit of a discussion: Thinking about reviewing our internet filtering and re-evaluating the market... Has anyone considered how many different languages different products filter against as part...
View ArticleMoving Broadband from Link2ICT
Hi I have been asked by the Head Teacher to look at saving costs on our link2ict subscription charges due to the severe budget cuts. The school is looking to move to another broadband supplier and I...
View ArticleCisco 1941 router won't connect to Internet
I have purchased a Cisco 1941 with an Ehwic adsl2 card that I am trying to set up to work with my ISP. Unfortunately my ISP does not deal with commercial gear with DSL normally so we are having issues....
View ArticleRM safetynet monitoring, can't see individual user names
Hi, we've recently switched to RM boradband with RM safety net. In the sales pitch, we were told that we could monitor individual user names to see what the little darlings have been searching or...
View ArticleSWGfL Peak Bandwidth Usage Interpretation.
Just checked our weekly/monthly Peak Bandwidth Usage : We pay for a 100Mb connection. Does n't look like we're peaking at 100 too often so we appear to be on the correct connection, comments?...
View ArticleSafeguard software how do you do?
Do you have safeguarding software on staff machines? If so how did you get round any issues with unions and watching staff? Or how and when have you deployed your safeguard software and how have you...
View ArticleInstagram windows store app and proxy servers - anybody got it working?
Hi I'm wondering if anybody has had success in getting the windows store Instagram app to work with a non transparent proxy? I've tried setting the winhttp proxy value with netsh as some have suggested...
View ArticleDNS and NTP addressing
This kind of falls between forums and thought it would get more traffic here: We're adding a ton of copiers and other equipment that relies on NTP and DNS. Typically I would just point these devices...
View ArticleSmoothwall Web address to internal IP Moodle
Hi all, I had an issue with Smoothwall and have had to restore from an old backup. Unfortunately I have lost a few rules so am in the process of recreating but I am stuck on remembering one. We have an...
View ArticleIIS help - cannot access files in wwwroot
I have a website running in IIS fine. The site is in its own folder in the wwwroot directory. (wwwroot\website) When i try add a file into the root e.g. wwwroot\index.html it will not open that file in...
View ArticleFirefox lockdown
I did a search but there are no upto date threads on this. Is there a way to lockdown Firefox so users can't install add-ons? Are there adm templates like chrome has?
View ArticleRM Safetynet UBF Sites blocked when accessing through search engine in IE
Hi all, Anyone else using RM Safetynet and come across this issue? Currently we have it setup so that staff can access Youtube but students cant. When staff search for youtube clips through Google they...
View ArticleWCCP traffic redirection
Is anyone familiar with WCCP for redirecting web traffic to proxies? I was wondering how one goes about stopping the switch from routing web traffic to the outside in the event the proxy goes down and...
View ArticleSchoolsbroadband issues
Is anyone else experiencing issues with their lightspeed filtering this morning? We had all users getting asked to log in via a captive portal this morning regardless of the fact they have the user...
View ArticleFirefox stopped working
Weird thing happened a while ago - i.e. at home firefox suddenly started saying 'server not found' on all my normal sites incl edugeek, bbc , hufington post, sky, virgin media in fact everything Chrome...
View ArticleSmall Business - Network Security Advice - Thoughts Please!!
Hi everyone, I've been asking a few questions here recently, and about to ask another! Background is that I work with a small local IT support company and we've recently taken over a small business (5...
View ArticleSmoothwall - iDEA (The Duke of York Inspiring Digital Enterprise Award)
Does anyone have any preexisting settings for Smoothwall for allowing all of the challenges to work? Some of the challenges use things like Gravatar, YouTube videos etc, which are routinely blocked. (I...
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