What is Smoothwall? Department of Children’s Services

Overview What does my Smoothwall box do? How does my box filter? Special Features Managing my box Updating my AUP Department of Children’s Services

What does my Smoothwall box do? Your school website filtering and firewall device Personalised filtering Reports on all browsing history Scans and checks downloads Caches web history

Personalised Filtering Sandra logs on to her computer and goes to The school server looks to see who Sandra is in AD and tells the smoothwall box that Sandra is a teacher. Smoothwall checks to see if teachers are allowed to access Teachers are allowed to do this so smoothwall allows Sandra access to the website

School AD Staff Teachers Pupils Support Staff Mr Jones Allow filtering based on Room Allow filtering based on time Smoothwall Policy Adults Students Support + Pupils Child Protection

Does Smoothwall just block or allow access? Block – No access to the requested website Allow – User can access the site Soft Block – User can chose to continue Limit to quota – user can access the site for a set amount of time. Whitelist – wont go through content modification

How does Smoothwall decide what category a site should be in? Content Filtering – Based on words and phrases Flash Filtering Domain Name Filtering

Using Search Engines You can force Safe Search You can use ‘Search Term Filtering’ You can allow search on Wikipedia for Bingo but block gambling sites. Think carefully about what you are searching for!

Other Features Read only access to websites Content modification of sites Quota allowance Block key words in other languages

Reporting There are over 100 pre defined reports Customizable Reports You can drill down into reports Main reports include – Top sites / Download Usage / Report

How do I make Changes? Call E-ICT on or Guardian Training

Impact In school Your School AUP will need to be updated to reflect access changes Who is going to look at Reports and what action is taken