Editure Protect is a sophisticated Internet protection product that provides education authorities and schools with unprecedented control and flexibility. Filtering rules are defined in a series of policies which can be applied to an education authority, school, group or person, allowing management at both a broad and granular level. Features of Editure Protect include quota management, IP blocking, support for an ‘edulist’, and the ability to integrate other third-party lists.
Filtering Policies
Editure Protect provides a unique policy-based system, allowing administrators to create and assign filtering policies as needed, rather than having to edit the settings for every user or year level within the school.
Group-based filtering
Policies can be easily applied to individual users and/or groups of users within a school.
A school policy sets the default web access levels for all users in the school just as a learning authority policy sets the default web access rules for all schools. Thus Editure Protect delivers web access control at every level.
Flexible URL rules
Editure Protect provides the ability to block or allow everything within a website, a section of a website, or even an individual page using URL rules. It is also now possible to block or allow a group of websites with a single rule.
Website Categories
Protect includes the powerful website categories, provided by Internet security quadrant leader McAfee. Updated throughout every day, this detailed and extensive list of website categories lets you filter thousands of websites of a certain type with the click of a button.
Near real-time policy updates
Editure Protect web-filtering policies take effect within 15 minutes, allowing administrators the ability to quickly respond to threats as they are discovered or teachers to plan for classes as needed.
Protect Policy Manager portlet
Manage all of your school’s filtering policies in one place using the myPLS Protect Policy Manager. This myPLS portlet is available to the policy administrator and can be added to any page inside myPLS; allowing easy, ‘anywhere anytime’ access to web filtering policies and settings.
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The myPLS Protect Policy portlet, showing basic policy controls for
Internet Access. Like all Protect rules, these settings can be applied
or over-written at a learning authority, school, group, or user level.
Note the Rules, Categories, and Extensions sections are shown collapsed
in this screenshot. The following images show each of these policy
sections expanded.
Rules can be added quickly and can be at the page, URL, domain, or even part domain level. For example, a rule blocking “google” would prevent access to google.com.au, google.co.uk, google.co.nz and so on, whereas a rule blocking “http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-11053329” would block access only to this particular news article, while allowing access to the rest of the BBC website.
Note that different access rules to http and https can also be set. For example you may wish to block access to the http version of a website, but allow access via https, in order to force users through the secure version of the website.
This image below shows the Internet URL categories that are available for learning authorities and schools to block. These categories and the URLS they contain are provided by McAfee, global leader in Internet security. The URL lists within each category are updated throughout each day. Blocking sites categorised as inappropriate is as simple as selecting the category and hitting save.
