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Safe Internet for Schools: User Guide
1. Description
Cytanet Safe Internet for School service helps to protect children from illegal, undesirable and harmful
internet content. With a simple, practical procedure you can choose internet content categories, specific
sites and/or internet applications, to which access is prohibited, to users of the school’s computers. You
may also determine a time limit for assigned users’ internet access.
Safe Internet for Schools service filters all the traffic on a school network without the need to install any
kind of software on the school’s computers or other devices. In this way, the entire school network is
secure and protected even when visitors, students and/or members of personnel are connected wirelessly
through the school’s connection.
According to the needs of each particular school, user profiles can be set up, by selecting the categories of
online content, specific websites and/or Internet applications to which access is not desirable as well as
determining the time allowed for Internet access by users of school computers. A specific filtering policy
(profile) can be associated with one or more IP addresses.
If the school chooses to filter the whole network in the same way, i.e. with one specific filtering policy
(profile) for the students and school personnel, then the filtering must be implemented across the whole
network, associating the filtering policy (profile) with all the school’s IP addresses.
Where various user profiles are required, the school needs to separate the devices on his network in such
a way as to ensure that online communication uses different public IP addresses. Every device on the
school’s premises must be connected to the Internet via the IP address with which the corresponding
profile has been associated. In this way, a separate filtering policy (profile) will be associated with each
separate device on the school’s premises. This presupposes at least the same number of public IP
addresses as the required number of profiles.
An example of the above case would be all the computers in the teachers’ room being online through a
particular public IP address (IP1) with which profile 1 is associated, while the rest of the school network
accesses the Internet using another public IP address (IP2) with which another profile (profile 2) is
associated. In this way, the teaching staff in the teachers’ room can have a different level of access from
the students.
2. Advantages
The advantages of Safe Internet for Schools service are the following:
1. With this service, all traffic on the school network is filtered, as are all devices connected to the
Internet (computers, tablets, smartphones), irrespective of their operating system (Windows, Mac,
Android, etc.).
2. No software is installed on any school device/computer. In this way, compatibility problems are avoided
between software and other programmes installed on the school’s computers (Security Suite, etc.).
3. The school does not need to bother with service updates.
3. Requirements
For the service to operate, the school must be connected to the Internet with a Cytanet Business product.
4. User Instructions
Where all devices will be filtered with a single profile, no action is required on the part of the customer
who must simply inform us about the make-up of the profile. Upon activation of the service, all traffic on
the school network will be filtered by the servers of the service in accordance with the chosen profile.
If the
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customer selects more than one profile, he must:
inform us of the make-up of the profiles he wishes to set up,
determine which policy profile will be associated with which public IP address and
separate the school’s computers according to the profiles that will be used on the school network
so that each one has Internet access via the IP address that corresponds to its specific policy
profile.
5. Managing the Service
The customer can manage the filtering categories of his profiles and access to online programmes and
services (instant messaging, P2P, chat, FTP, etc.), set up white and black lists for specific websites and
determine the amount of time allowed for Internet access.
6. Reports
Once a week, the customer will receive an e-mail containing data on his network’s Internet traffic,
according to the selected profile.