The Internet has become an indispensable resource for teaching and learning, however it can also expose staff and students to inappropriate content. The Smoothwall range of web filtering and security products help reduce that risk by blocking access to malicious web-content. The Guardian Web Filter delivers world-class filtering, monitoring and reporting based on Smoothwall Dynamic Content Analysis technology and URL lists.

Thousands of institutions, from schools to colleges, to local authorities, rely on Smoothwall security and web content filtering technology – our Guardian Web Filter product has UK government Department for Education (formerly Becta) accreditation and is fully CIPA compliant.

• Dynamic Content Analysis accurately categorise and block all undesirable content
• Website signature scanning prevents the use of anonymous proxies
• Monitor web activity and traffic in real-time
• Cost effective enterprise class filtering without compromise
• Advanced reporting understand and interpret web usage
• ‘Who, What, When & Where’ policy tools to create specific environments that fit all your users needs

Guardian excels at blocking proxies and online games, preventing malware, filtering secure traffic, controlling streaming media and IM, filtering and monitoring searchstrings/images and logging web uploads.

Flexible access controls allow administrators to set detailed rules and give control to teachers to override filtering, access reports and check the status of banned users.  Intuitive reporting provides the detail needed to understand all activity with real-time logs that show individual user browsing to trends and site specific reports.

Smoothwall products are available as both all-in-one hardware/software appliances, or as software-only packages. The latter allows a school to select hardwarea appropriate to their needs.