Guide Mobile Filter
Extends policies and protection with flexible filtering when computers are off the network
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- CIPA-compliant, cross-platform web filtering for mobile devices
- Based on comprehensive education-specific URL database
- Extension of user access policies to off-network computers
- From-anywhere filtering, without the need for a VPN
- Filtering for iPad, iPhone, and iPod touch devices with the Guide Browser App
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Overview
When school computers leave the network, both the computers and the users can be exposed to harmful content and safety and security risks. Mobile Internet filtering ensures the safety of your users–and reduces the cost, downtime, and frustration associated with computers that have a tendency to be compromised while off the network.
Whether your mobile users are part of a 1:1 initiative or just staff bringing laptops on and off the network, the Guide Mobile Filter will protect them and enforce your Acceptable Use Policies.
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Features
The Guide Mobile Filter provides powerful, easy-to-use features for mobile web filtering:
- CIPA-compliant Internet filtering for mobile computers
- Reporting of off-network activity, including Blocked URLs, Blocked URLs by Category, Unknown URLs, URLs Visited
- Ability to block all forms of proxy servers (anonymous and secure)
- Forced SafeSearch for Google and Yahoo search engines
- Local policy control (Active Directory and LDAP)
- Password-protected uninstall
- Cross-platform support for Windows and Macintosh, including filtering for iPad, iPhone, and iPod touch devices
- Works from any location, with any type of Internet connection—without the need for a VPN
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Benefits
The Guide Mobile Filter offers valuable benefits to schools implementing 1:1 initiatives or with mobile users.
Extends policies and protection to off-network computers.
Your Acceptable Use Policies protect both your users and your equipment. Laptops taken off the network are often free from the content filtering used within the network, opening users up to inappropriate content and equipment to dangerous web sites. The Guide Mobile Filter delivers flexible cross-platform support for off-network computers, ensuring that blocked sites remain blocked–no matter from where the computer is being used.
Keeps users safe with comprehensive filtering.
The Guide Mobile Filter detects and/or blocks access to inappropriate material on the Internet based on our extensive, education-specific URL database, as well as your own custom allow and block lists, helping to ensure user safety and CIPA compliance.
Reduces the cost, time, and frustration of compromised computers.
By blocking sites known as threats for spyware, malware, and viruses, the Guide Mobile Filter helps keep your school computers secure and safe when they are off the network, helping to keep computers clean and functioning properly.
Learn how the Guide Mobile Filter works
How It Works
The Guide Mobile Filter communicates Internet-browser requests from the mobile computer to a Lightspeed server at the district. In turn, the Lightspeed server references the URL requests with its content database and either allows the request to be processed or sends a blocking and redirect message to the user.
In this way Acceptable Use Policies are consistently enforced for users alternately attached to the local network and working remotely. The Guide Mobile Filter protects off-network computers from any location, with any type of Internet connection—without the need for a VPN connection.