If you’re a K-12 IT Director, you already know filter bypass is a problem. What may surprise you is how much the methods have changed.
Students are no longer just using VPNs. They’re using AI-built camouflage sites that pass content categorization and quietly swap their content. Open-source proxy frameworks downloadable from GitHub in minutes. Game aggregators hosted on Google Sites that don’t use proxies at all, and so never trigger traditional proxy detection. Meanwhile, 1 in 3 students has already attempted to bypass content filtering — and most IT teams only find out when a teacher reports it.
In this session, Lightspeed Systems VP of Product Matthew Burg and Customer Evangelist Colin McCabe walk through the three blind spots in typical K-12 security architectures, and the new features built to close them — including Lightspeed Filter™’s Real-Time Bypass Detection, now in Early Access.
What’s in this session
- Why the bypass landscape looks nothing like it did three years ago, and what AI has changed about the speed and scale of new bypass methods
- The three blind spots in how most K-12 networks are protected: on-device content, off-network devices, and unmonitored AI platform activity
- How Real-Time Bypass Detection works, sees the page as the student sees it, detects proxy libraries and game aggregators, and runs with zero performance impact on older Chromebooks
- How to start with 14 days of silent detection to understand your network’s real exposure before enabling any automatic blocking
- What AI Prompt Capture is, which platforms it covers at launch, and how to use it to create an audit trail for ChatGPT, Gemini, and Copilot usage in your district
