Lightspeed Filtering Mark Shrimpton Schools Broadband Team EiS

Schools Broadbands Requirements Provide flexible filtering, suitable for entire age range Support expanding bandwidth requirements estimated to be ~10Gbps within 5 years. Replicate policies over multiple Internet gateways to ensure resilience should a WAN centre fail Integrate into hundreds of separate Active Directory forests Provide delegated admin to 600+ schools Provide granular filtering based on OU group/user, IP address, range, time of day Provide full reporting to allow us to comply with RIPA requests

Infrastructure

Rockets put into route Schools Broadband VPN Internet transits through UoK, Canterbury and EIS, Maidstone Filtering now in-line to Internet transit –Additional equipment meant changes to BGP advertisements Filtering policy challenges due to the added HTTPS filtering Introduction to 10Gb links Implementation Challenges

Filtering Policies

Mobile Filtering From-anywhere filtering, without the need for a VPN Password-protected uninstall. Reporting of off-network activity, including Blocked URLs, Blocked URLs by Category, Unknown URLs, URLs Visited. Forced Safe Search for Google and Yahoo search engines. Cross-platform support for Windows, Android, and iOS devices.

Customisations

Reporting

Traffic Dashboard

Reporting Reporting Front Page

Reporting Traffic by Internal IP

Reporting Top Blocked Domains

Reporting Top Blocked Categories

Reporting Search-engine Queries

Reporting Filtering Search-engine Queries

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