Lightspeed Systems

Benefits

The Internet offers valuable benefits—but is also full of inappropriate and time-wasting content. To comply with federal regulations and Acceptable Use Policies, you have to ensure that students and staff are using school resources for appropriate purposes. Lightspeed Web Access Manager provides comprehensive, customizable filtering to ensure web browsing and searching are safe and appropriate.

Protects users from inappropriate material on the Internet. Web Access Manager 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.

Keeps searches safe. Web Access Manager ensures that search results on Google and other popular search engines do not include inappropriate sites or images, such as pornography and sexual content.

Lets teachers teach and students learn. Our content filter groups sites into school-specific categories based on subject matter and age-appropriateness, providing easy review and administration. Granular database control ensures that over-blocking doesn’t ever hinder teaching.

Provides safe access to YouTube videos. The Educational Video Library allows teachers to give their students access to valuable Web 2.0 learning resources, without the content risks. With this feature, you can easily allow teachers and students to play approved YouTube videos. Teachers can tag, search, and review approved videos.

Protects users and computers off the network. The Guide Mobile Filter extends policies and protection when computers are off the network, reducing the cost, downtime, and frustration associated with computers that have a tendency to be compromised while off the network.

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Features

Lightspeed Web Access Manager provides powerful, easy-to-use features for filtering and monitoring web browsing.

• Comprehensive and accurate education-friendly URL database with more than one billion entries.
• Multiple layers of anonymous proxy detection and blocking to keep users from bypassing your filter and accessing blocked sites.
• Educational Video Library allows teachers to share approved YouTube videos with students. Video approval can be delegated to teachers or curricular leaders.
• netTrekker d.i. integration to ensure seamless access to approved netTrekker sites.
• Protection for school computers outside the network - without a VPN, from any location with any type of Internet connection.
• Flexible filtering for mobile users, including thin clients.
• Access differentiation by user, IP, group, organizational unit, domain.
• Peer-to-peer application and file-type blocking.
• Daily signature updates, and immediate emergency updates, directly from Lightspeed Systems.
• Fast filtering capabilities can handle even the heaviest traffic loads without hindering speed of access.
• Guide Mobile Filter provides remote filtering and reporting on off-network activity

Learn about the comprehensive reports provided by Web Access Manager

Reporting

Web Access Manager gives you access to comprehensive information about who is viewing what over your network, so you can adjust Acceptable Use Policies, change allowed usages, review problems and troubleshoot issues, and plan for ongoing needs. You can see a high-level overview of content viewed and blocked, and then drill down for detailed information, with reports like:

• Blocked Content
• Search Engine Queries
• Blocked URLs
• URLs visited
• Traffic by Category
• Overrides (active and history)

Learn more about our reports