Web filtering and monitoring
We offer a range of web filtering and monitoring solutions enabling you to apply your web use policies, with the most appropriate technology and toolset for your organisation.
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About web filtering and monitoring
Thanks to our framework agreement1 with selected suppliers, we're able to offer a broader and more flexible range of safeguarding solutions which offer web filtering, monitoring and reporting.
Choose from a cloud-based or local appliance platform, or a hybrid of the two.
Services available through the framework agreement include:
- Web filtering
- Includes both the Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) (illegal sexual content) and the Counter Terrorism Internet Referral Unit (CTIRU) (Prevent) lists
- Flexible choices, prebuilt or custom categories
- Monitoring
- Allowed and disallowed pages
- Ability to send alerts when conditions are met
- Reporting
- General or individual behaviours
- Distinguish between onsite and offsite activities
- Exportable formats
- Supplementary services
- Training available for administrators
- Support services
These services will enable you to safeguard potentially vulnerable learners from inappropriate or illegal content on the web and also help you to comply with your duty under the Prevent agenda.
Suppliers
Comtact (Zscaler)
A leading UK provider of security services to the educational sector enabling an environment of collaboration whereby education can flourish securely.
Contact wfm.comtact@jisc.ac.uk.
BSI Group (Zscaler)
Experts at managing and securing an organisation’s most valuable asset – information. We combine our cloud security expertise with the Gartner Magic Quadrant leading Secure Web Gateway Solution: Zscaler.
Contact wfm.bsi@jisc.ac.uk.
iboss Cybersecurity (iboss)
Preferred supplier - cloud based services
Preferred supplier - hybrid cloud/local appliance based services
A patented, functionally rich web security platform utilising next-generation cloud technology, uniquely delivering elastic performance with granular reporting.
Contact wfm.iboss@jisc.ac.uk.
Insight (Smoothwall)
Insight (SmoothWall) SmoothWall UTM and SWG offer 360° filtering , any content on the page, search term, domain, image, comment or text.
Contact wfm.insight@jisc.ac.uk.
Pinacl Solutions (SmoothWall)
Preferred supplier - local appliance based services
Drives innovation by crafting pioneering technology solutions that enable our customers to unlock new possibilities within their business.
Contact wfm.pinaclsolutions@jisc.ac.uk.
Softcat (CensorNet)
Offer specialist IT security experts, combined with industry-wide knowledge and focused customer service, to deliver trusted solutions to organisations.
Contact wfm.softcat@jisc.ac.uk.
Gaia Technologies (SmoothWall)
Gaia Technologies are in administration and are therefore currently suspended from the web filtering and monitoring framework. (Updated 21.10.2019)
Supplier contract documents
Compare solutions
Platform
| iboss Cybersecurity | Zscaler | CensorNet | SmoothWall | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Platform | Cloud, local or hybrid | Cloud only | Cloud or hybrid | Local only |
Filtering
| iboss Cybersecurity | Zscaler | CensorNet | SmoothWall | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Internet Watch Foundation | Non-mandatory | Non-mandatory | Non-mandatory | Mandatory |
| Unlawful extremism content | Non-mandatory | Non-mandatory | Non-mandatory | Mandatory |
| Search terms | Included | Included uses safesearch | Included uses safesearch | Included |
| Prebuilt categories Custom categories Web borne threats Group/user based Time based options | Included | Included | Included | Included |
Key: Included Included, Non-mandatory non-mandatory, Mandatory mandatory, uses safesearch uses SafeSearch
Monitoring
| iboss Cybersecurity | Zscaler | CensorNet | SmoothWall | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Successful pages Blocked pages Searches Conditional alerting | Included | Included | Included | Included |
Reporting
| iboss Cybersecurity | Zscaler | CensorNet | SmoothWall | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| General statistics Individual, prebuilt and custom reports | Included | Included | Included | Included |
| Distinguish on-site and off-site activity | Included | Included | Included | Included |
| Real-time reporting | Included | Included | Included | Included |
| Scheduled reports | Included | Included | Included | Included |
| Exportable formats | HTML Turbo Tab Tab delimited TXT | CSV XML | PDF CSV | Tab delimited CSV |
Key: Included Included, Not included not included
Supported admin gateways
| iboss Cybersecurity | Zscaler | CensorNet | SmoothWall | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Browsers | HTML5 compliant incl. IE 9+ Chrome Safari Firefox Opera | Internet explorer Chrome Safari Firefox | ||
| Devices | All - decoupled from architecture | Tablets Mac OS devices Windows devices | Tablets Mac OS devices Windows devices Smartphones | |
Suppliers
| iboss Cybersecurity | Zscaler | Softcat | SmoothWall |
|---|---|---|---|
| iboss Cybersecurity | Comtact BSI Group | CensorNet | Pinacl Solutions UK Insight |
Key features and benefits
Improved safeguarding and compliance
Our solutions help you to safeguard learners from inappropriate or illegal content on the web. Internet Watch Foundation and the Unlawful Extremism Content filters also help you comply with the government’s Prevent agenda by blocking access to radical or extremist content. Together these measures help protect your organisation’s reputation and possible legal challenges.
Flexible service delivery
The framework solutions are available 24/7, so you don’t have to worry about services not being available at certain times of the day or night. You can choose from custom or pre-built filtering and reporting options. Additional web monitoring and reporting services will also help you to distinguish between someone stumbling upon a prohibited site and someone deliberately returning to that site for long periods at a time.
Efficiency gains
You can implement more fine-grained filtering options to allow access to specific groups or individuals and at particularly times of the day, enabling more flexibility for your users whilst also saving on bandwidth and increasing user productivity.
Saved purchasing time
We’ve saved you time and money by selecting a number of suppliers as part of a rigorous OJEU competitive tender process, so you can choose the preferred supplier or run a mini-competition with the suppliers we’ve selected.
Pricing and eligibility
Pricing will depend on the solution you choose. Applicants will be expected to place their own orders for an appropriate licence either through a mini-competition or directly with the preferred supplier.
See our buyers guide for details.
The multi-supplier web filtering and monitoring framework agreement is available to UK higher education institutions, further education and specialist colleges, research councils and other bodies whose core purpose is the support or advancement of further or higher education or research.
The service is also available to any National Research and Education Network (NREN) and the community it services where the NREN has either a direct connection to the Janet Network or the NREN is a member of the GÉANT consortium.
This service is included within the scope of our ISO9001 certificate.
Footnotes
- 1 The framework agreement ran for an initial two year period starting 11 May 2016. This has been extended for a further two years until 10 May 2020.