{"id":21011,"date":"2024-01-30T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-01-30T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lightspeedsystems.com\/blog\/strengthen-your-protection-students-byod-iot-devices-lightspeed-filter\/"},"modified":"2024-12-05T22:54:25","modified_gmt":"2024-12-05T22:54:25","slug":"strengthen-your-protection-students-byod-iot-devices-lightspeed-filter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lightspeedsystems.com\/de\/blog\/strengthen-your-protection-students-byod-iot-devices-lightspeed-filter\/","title":{"rendered":"St\u00e4rken Sie den Schutz Ihrer Sch\u00fcler auf BYOD- und IoT-Ger\u00e4ten mit Lightspeed Filter\u2122"},"content":{"rendered":"
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BYOD (bring your own device) and IoT (internet of things) devices have spread into all aspects of daily life, from the professional workplace to your local cafe. Of course, K-12 school districts prove no exception.\u00a0<\/p>\n

In schools nationwide, a great many IoT devices are now online, from smart boards in classrooms to trackers on school buses. For their part, students and staff arrive at school with their own devices\u2014notebook computers, tablets, and smartphones\u2014also connected to the network. All these technologies empower greater communication, information gathering and sharing, and learning, but also contribute to an escalating security vulnerability.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

The shared connectivity among people, BYOD, and IoT devices<\/a> makes for a powerful learning environment. In return, however, that same connectivity poses challenges and threats to every school district. Fortunately, Lightspeed Filter<\/a> delivers both flexibility and control to a district\u2019s IT team to protect students, devices, and the network \u2014 all in a single place.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Lightspeed Filter delivers two solutions, Cloud DNS Filter and Lightspeed SmartShield\u2122 technology, to address the specific challenges of BYOD and IoT devices and support flexible deployments for district IT teams. These two reliable solutions can be either deployed individually or leveraged together to provide an added layer of protection.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Lightspeed Systems\u2019 Cloud DNS Filter works on hostname-level filtering distinguished by the external IP of the device and network<\/span>. As a result, school districts<\/span> can <\/span>create segments with personalized filtering rules <\/span>and unlock features that <\/span>operate<\/span> on the same IP level<\/span>, all <\/span>with <\/span>just a few clicks.<\/span><\/span>\u00a0<\/p>\n

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\nStrengthen Network Protection Without Hardware Constraints
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Lightspeed SmartShield serves as a local DNS filter placed on a virtual appliance in a school\u2019s network environment, intercepting and filtering all agent-less internet traffic between devices and networks. SmartShield delivers visibility into internal IP addresses, distinguishing between different devices even when users are not authenticated, thereby allowing greater flexibility and control to manage policies.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Lightspeed SmartShield delivers a number of features to reduce complexity, cut costs, and save time, including:\u00a0<\/p>\n