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School Broadband & Leased Lines
"Soltech IT's filtered Shield broadband connection has increased speeds and produced cost savings for the school”
Lorraine Woollven, Headteacher, Churchill CE VC Primary School
Approved. Filtered Broadband and Leased Lines for Schools
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Shield. Cost Effective Broadband
Shield Broadband for Education offers cost effective broadband solutions for schools, colleges and universities.
When it comes to choosing a broadband solution for education, one of the biggest considerations is filtering. Schools have a responsibility to safeguard children from accessing potentially inappropriate or harmful material online. However, children still need to learn how to use the internet safely and that includes learning what to do when they access inappropriate content.
No filtering system can ever be fully effective, or effective all of the time, however Shield's filtering solution ensures schools have the ability to satisfy relevant guidance, like Keeping Children Safe in Education.
Shield. Blocking Illegal Content
Shield ensures access to illegal content is blocked including blocking access to materials on the Child Abuse Images and Content (CAIC) list, provided by the IWF and
materials on the police assessed list of unlawful terrorist content.
Shield. Monitoring and Reporting
Schools are required to monitor and report on user activity for both pupils and staff. Shield filtering provides comprehensive monitoring and reporting with instant email notification.
Monitoring can also be linked to your networks Active Directory providing and even more robust monitoring system.
Shield. Managing Inappropriate Material
Schools also need to manage access to inappropriate content, such as discrimination, extremism, self-harm, drug and substance abuse.
Shield filtering also allows educational organisations the meet The Department for Education (DfE) requirement for schools to manage and have an appropriate level of filtering, as defined by UK Safer Internet Centre.
Shield Filtering. Keeping Pupils and Staff Safe in Education
- SafeDNS and zVelo IWF Member / CAIC illegal content blocking
- Police assessed list integration
- ICSA Labs certified firewall
- Category filtering – I.E Discrimination, Extremism, Pornography and more
- Age and role appropriate filtering
- Ability to filter or deny access to specific content
- SafeSearch for search engines – I.E Google, YouTube
- Network level filtering
- Monitoring, reporting and instant notification functionality
- User and time based filtering (UBF/TBF)
- Android, Apple Watch and iOS app notification and monitoring
- Advance features of Shield filtering.
- MAC and GeoIP filtering
- Deep Packet Inspection (DPI)
- Stateful Packet Inspection (SPI)
- Anti-Spoofing
- Intrusion Detection and Prevention System (IDPS)
- NAT mapping (inbound/outbound)
- Guest network with captive portal
- Virtual Private Network (VPN) functionality
- HTTPS and Antivirus filtering
- SSL encryption
IWF work internationally to make the internet a safer place. They help victims of child sexual abuse worldwide by identifying and removing online images and videos of their abuse.
zvelo provides the industry’s most advanced categorisation and malicious detection for web content, traffic and connected devices. zvelo are an IWF member.
SafeDNS offer a wide selection of secure, fast and reliable solutions for content and web filtering. SafeDNS are an IWF member.
Enterprises worldwide rely on ICSA (International Computer Security Association) Labs to set and apply objective testing and certification criteria for measuring product compliance and performance.
The Hector’s World Safety Button™
is a child-activated safety tool which children can use if something on-screen upsets or worries them. A swimming Hector’s World™ character is displayed on the Hector Protector computer screen. A child can just click on Hector character, who then covers the screen with a beautiful underwater scene and gives the child a positive written message, while encouraging them to get adult help.
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What schools say...
"Soltech IT's filtered Shield broadband connection has increased speeds and produced cost savings for the school. Staff recognise that the new connection provides greater safeguards and as their skills increase will be able to move forward and make use of cloud based teaching and learning, keeping the school ever evolving and able to utilise the latest online tools and technologies"
Lorraine Woollven, Headteacher, Churchill CE VC Primary School
“A powerful filtering and monitoring which complies with our safeguarding policies. Excellent value for money with significant savings when compared to our previous SWGFL and EXA Broadband connections.”
Mr V Sheppard, ICT and SENCO Lead, Strawberry Line Federated Schools
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Shield Broadband. Performance. Security. Value.
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Meet the team
Luke Bowden
Senior IT Technician
Luke is an experienced member of the Soltech team having been with us since 2017. Luke has held a number of roles with in the company as his career has progressed throughout the years..
As a Senior IT Technician Luke not only gets involved in all forms of support and project installations, he also manages aspects of the IT department including scheduling and delivery of services.
