U.S. Intelligence SWF School Network information Security solution

The British School in Shanghai is the first British International School to follow the British national Education syllabus, and the first batch of foreign-funded children's schools approved by the Ministry of Education. It is invested by Nohange Education Group, the largest education group in the United Kingdom, to provide all English-style education for children of 3--13 age at different ages, which is divided into two campuses in Pudong and Puxi.

Troubles from the Internet

With the internet on a variety of unhealthy content of the Web pages and links more and more, the focus of the construction of Campus network is no longer simple as usual to focus on the network performance of high-speed and convenient, how to make the students safe use of the Internet has become an important part of the campus information construction.

According to Mr. Zhou, a director of information technology at Puxi campus in Shanghai, England, how to find out the harmful information of school students in the vast amount of information becomes a difficult problem before the school. The use of manual monitoring is not only a very large workload, but also very blind, efficiency is not high, but also easy to make students have a psychological resistance. Therefore, the school management and the parents of the students attach great importance to the industry in the application of security products for each of the comparison, Mr. Zhou finally locked in a new United States intelligence Web page filtering System products swf (SurfControl Web Filter) on.

A content filtering system tailored to the campus network

According to Mr. Zhou introduced in many web filtering system products, he chose the U.S. intelligence products reason is to value its excellent network performance and efficient security protection mechanism.

First of all, the United States intelligence SWF can be based on the network environment and security requirements of the specific situation of flexible deployment of security policy. Prohibit access to chat sites during class hours; prohibit downloading of suspicious executables, download of BT seed files and use of peer-to-peer protocols; At the same time, schools can also develop flexible access strategies that allow teachers and managers to access arbitrary websites; During class hours, only students are allowed to visit websites related to learning; Students can access shopping/dating/news/sports/entertainment/games/leisure and other health sites, and otherwise prohibit access to any other type of Web site. These flexible security strategies greatly help the network administrator to the student room for effective management, can let the students ' teachers and parents to the school's network environment at ease.

In addition, the Web page filter system can be based on the world's largest, most perfect content database shielding adults, crime, violence and other sites containing bad information, but also using artificial intelligence technology VCA Web content dynamic analysis, timely detection and blocking the latest appearance of bad websites. In addition, the U.S. intelligence also provides 45,000 weekly URL update service.

Second, the SWF installation configuration process is very simple. According to Mr. Zhou, in the United States intelligence staff will be the equipment in accordance with the debugging, school managers do not need to read the manual can be configured according to the configuration rules for management, especially to the satisfaction of the University in the report statistics, SWF did very well. Users can access the Report Center through the web and automatically generate report statistics sorted by flow, time, category, user group, and other key information, SWF has 60 report templates for users to use, and can export HTM, PDF, CSV, RTF and other formats of the report file, You can also set the timing feature to send specific reports to the administrator mailbox. Very user-friendly report also makes it easy for teachers to master the Internet situation of students, All-weather automatic operation, different time to implement different strategies, can greatly reduce the maintenance burden of managers.