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12 February 2012Smoothwall

Smoothwall Drives Sales With Military PrecisionSmoothwall's Corporate Sales team have recently won a series of high profile international contracts.Read more

07 February 2012Security

In Love and Sharing PasswordsWhen you're young and in love (remember that?) what could be more romantic than share your most treasured on-line possession? - Your password. Read more

30 January 2012Smoothwall

New e-Safety Law for Academies White PaperA new whitepaper covering e-Safety law and Academies has been released by Smoothwall today. Researched and written by the noted expert in the field, Dr. Brian Bandey - it covers the legal environment for Academies of both Internet and email misuse by both students and staff.Read more

18 January 2012Security

Mass Suspension at Pittsburgh School for Bypassing FilterDian Schaffhauser writing in the Journal picked up on a story about students using UltraSurf to bypass the school's web filtering and security systems. Read more

18 January 2012Smoothwall

BYOD is the Challenge of the DecadeWhilst instant internet access at home, work or even in coffee shops and on trains is something most people now take for granted, for many network managers the growing popularity of smart phones, tablets and other portable devices is causing a major headache.Read more

06 January 2012Smoothwall

Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) and Network Guest Access for EducationMany students and teachers now have higher specification communications devices at home and in their pockets than they are supplied with on the school campus - how can you keep them safe on-line at school ... Read more

06 January 2012Smoothwall

Web filtering and control for mobile devices - Smoothwall Mobile Guardian for Windows, Mac OSX and iOSManaging, controlling and appropriately filtering web use on mobile devices is becoming a core part of every network managers’ day to day responsibility. Read more

06 January 2012Smoothwall

New Smoothwall SWG-3600 & UTM-3000 AppliancesBigger. Faster. Optional go faster stripes and big spoiler. The time comes when you really need to have a bit more space and a bit more oomph! Smoothwall’s new hardware appliances the UTM-3000 and the SWG-3600 appliances have both in spades.Read more

06 January 2012Smoothwall

YouTube.com/educationYouTube is the home of the weird, wonderful, explicit and outrageous - it’s also a vast repository of brilliant and mind-expanding educational resources. It can also be a bit of a minefield for unwary teachers and those responsible for providing appropriate web content for young students. Read more

06 January 2012Smoothwall

Facebook - look but don't touch!Facebook - Do you love it or hate it? Do you build your your social life around it? Is it just a bit distracting during the working / studying day? Read more

06 January 2012Smoothwall

Google Encrypted Search - What it really means for SchoolsSearching the web for innocuous things can often bring surprising and unwanted results.Read more

06 January 2012Smoothwall

Delivering safe and appropriate web access on diverse Council controlled networksDeploying Central or Local Web Filtering, Security and Control? The choice when building web filtering and security systems seems at the outset to be simple - a top-down relatively inflexible centrally managed and deployed system or individual local deployments that deliver increased flexibility but have higher costs. Read more

06 January 2012Smoothwall

SWURL from Smoothwall - Personal control of URL safelists for teachersEvery teacher we know hates asking for ‘permission’ from their IT support teams to unblock web pages that fall into the categorisation grey areas - especially as they are responsible and accountable for making the best decisions about what is and isn’t suitable for their students everyday.Read more

06 January 2012Smoothwall

Developing Pa55VV0rD skills in young people - smoothwall.net/myPasswordYour first line of defence in personal online safety is the strength and security of your password - whether you’re six or sixty creating and keeping it secure is a crucial life skill to master. Being tricked into disclosing it, having it stolen or hacked means that you can be impersonated, defrauded or humiliated online.Read more