Warwickshire to secure schools network
Local education authority creates a safe environment on all its IT networks
Warwickshire County Council has chosen Forensic Software to create a safe environment for its education networks and systems across 37 secondary, 200 primary, 10 special schools and 8 nurseries.
The system will allow the local authority's staff and school managers to transparently analyse, manage and report inappropriate use of networked computers used by 76,000 students and 7000 staff.
The system is being rolled out during autumn this year.
'Despite all our previous best efforts evaluation trials proved that inappropriate IT use was present within our schools,' said John Parmiter, head of ICT development services for Warwickshire County Council.
'This solution will enable us to monitor and change our students’ IT behaviour and make our schools safer, more productive and less exposed to cyber risks.'
The system monitors all screen and keyboard activity, and filters references to pornography, paedophilia, profanity, racism, abuse and drugs.
The dictionary of words and phrases can be customised according to criteria set by individual schools to reflect conditions. It records in real-time all triggered violations and produces a time- and date-stamped screen capture with all associated audit data stored in a SQL Server database.
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