1. Online Filtering, Monitoring and Safe Practice
Chris Carter eDevelopments Adviser Herts for Learning

2. Online Filtering, Monitoring and Alerting

3. Online Filtering, Monitoring and Alerting
Specifically designed for education

4. Your HICS filtering, monitoring and alerting system
The same four standard filters: WF1 / WF2 / WF3 / WF4
Custom filtering for both websites and searches
Different filtering policies for different needs E.g. an after school policy
Even possible to have different filtering policies down to individual level (requires some set up)

5. Your HICS filtering, monitoring and alerting system
All accessed via a secure online portal.

6. Your HICS filtering, monitoring and alerting system
All accessed via an online portal.

7. Your HICS filtering, monitoring and alerting system
Monitoring and Reporting
Standard monitoring/reporting already active
Searchable reports available down to individual user level, if set up
Search within specific time frames
Useful for investigating incidents etc.

8. Your HICS filtering, monitoring and alerting system

9. Your HICS filtering, monitoring and alerting system

10. Three types of alert will be available
Your HICS filtering, monitoring and alerting system
Alerting
Three types of alert will be available
Access (or attempts) to child sexual abuse content (‘IWF Alerts’)
Extremist content (‘Prevent Alerts’)
Custom alerts

11. Your HICS filtering, monitoring and alerting system
Alerting: Internet Watch Foundation (IWF)
Illegal to access or seek out
Uses hidden IWF lists
Cannot be overridden or changed in school
The alert currently goes straight to RM. They will contact HfL – police involvement.
You don’t have to enable this, it will be enforced.

12. The Prevent Duty
“due regard to the need to prevent people from being drawn into terrorism”

13. The Prevent Duty
Schools should ensure children are safe from terrorist and extremist material when accessing internet in schools.
Schools should ensure suitable filtering is in place.

14. Your HICS filtering, monitoring and alerting system
Alerting: Prevent (extremist content)
Uses lists of unlawful terrorist content
Lists maintained by the Counter Terrorism Internet Referral Unit on behalf of Home Office
Cannot be overridden locally
Police not automatically involved
Fewer false positives
You don’t have to enable this, it will be enforced

15. Your HICS filtering, monitoring and alerting system
Alerting: Custom (coming soon)
Set up your own lists of sites and searches
Can be set to trigger after single attempt or repeated (e.g. 5) attempts
School can then log-in to investigate further E.g. a search for suicide might be research or something more concerning

17. Your HICS filtering, monitoring and alerting system
For PREVENT and IWF alerts
Currently there is no need to do anything
Prevent alert: RM  HfL  School
Aiming for alert to go directly to the school but we are waiting for approval from Counter Terrorism unit.
IWF alert: RM / HFL will contact you (police involvement)

18. Your HICS filtering, monitoring and alerting system
For alerts from custom filter lists
Currently trialling this in a few schools.
Roll out to schools that want this.
Sign-up process which we will let you know about.
Schools will be signed up in bands.

19. What do you need to do?
Look out for communication regarding direct Prevent alerts.
Look out for communication regarding custom alerts. Action this if desired.
Choose a designated address for future alerts to be sent to.
Read information on how to use the system.
Make sure your safeguarding processes are in place to deal with an alert.
We will enrol schools in bands.

20. Life in the Cloud For example: Google G Suite for Education In school
Chromebooks
In school or
at home

21. Protecting young people using Chromebooks when not in school.
Life in the Cloud
Protecting young people using Chromebooks when not in school.
RM BUZZ. Applied to Chromebooks to filter content both in-school and out.

22. Filtering, monitoring and alerting system active outside school through Buzz

23. Life in the Cloud
Communicate to parents/carers that filtering is available at home through ISP
BT Parental Controls Sky Broadband Shield TalkTalk HomeSafe Virgin Web Safe Plusnet SafeGuard

24. Life in the Cloud For example:
Students able to share with external users
Students able to video conference / instant message with external users
YouTube not age/content restricted
Student-created websites publicly available

25. Life in the Cloud Staff use of school cloud services at home:
Asking browser to save password.
Not logging out after use.
Sharing devices with others at home.

26. To finish: do you… Check your filtering reports?
Communicate online safety messages to parents and carers?
Alert staff to the implications of using personally owned devices for school work?
Make sure staff only use approved online services?

27. These slides and updates will be added to the HICS website