Mobile Filter
Ensure safety and success of mobile learning with anytime/anywhere filtering
About the Lightspeed Mobile Filter
Whether you have a 1:1 technology initiative or a handful of mobile devices, mobile filtering is a key to the safety of your users, the security of your devices, and the success of your mobile learning program. With the Lightspeed Mobile Filter, you can extend your existing filtering policies to your off-network devices, including iOS devices, netbooks, MacBooks, laptops, and Android devices to ensure safe, secure 24/7 learning opportunities
The Mobile Filter transparently communicates Internet-browser requests from a mobile device to a Lightspeed server (managed or hosted). In turn, the Lightspeed server references the URL requests with its content database and policy settings, and either allows or blocks the request.
Features of the Mobile Filter
The Lightspeed Mobile Filter provides powerful, easy-to-use features for mobile web filtering:
- From-anywhere filtering, without the need for a VPN
- Comprehensive and accurate URL database with more than 1 billion entries grouped into education-specific categories
- Time-based policies (to allow different access before and after school, for example)
- Password-protected uninstall
- 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)
- Cross-platform support for Windows, Macintosh, Android, and iOS devices
- Educational Resource Library with unfiltered access to educational YouTube videos, web sites, wikis and blogs, documents, and more
- My Big Campus for safe Web 2.0 and collaboration
Mobile Filter Reports
The Lightspeed Mobile Filter provides comprehensive reporting about what is being accessed on the Internet and by whom so that you can adjust Acceptable Use Policies, change allowed usages, and review and troubleshoot problems. Start with a high-level overview of content viewed and blocked, and then drill down for detailed information:
- Blocked URLs
- Blocked URLs by Category
- URLs Visited
- Unknown URLs
With the Lightspeed Mobile Filter you can:
- Manage access to web sites with an education-specific filtering database.
- Extend user access policies to off-network computers and mobile devices.
- Safely allow educational Web 2.0 resources, such as videos, blogs, and wiki pages.
- Ensure CIPA compliance.
- Receive detailed reports on mobile user activity.
- Enforce Acceptable Use Policies are enforced.
- Promote safe, effective blended learning with access to an online library and collaboration site.
- Filtering for iOS devices through a Mobile Filter application.