• Built for Education by Educators
  extensively tested by schools | constant feedback from users
• URL filtering
  extensive URL lists | constant refinement via a large community of users

• Content filtering
  sophisticated content checking algorithm | dynamic page scanning | extensive phrase lists tuned for education
• Age-appropriate filter profiles
  Prebuilt profiles for school age ranges
• Enforces “safe search”
  dynamically adds safe search option to requests from student profiles
• Image thumbnails from banned sites are blocked
  no Google image thumbnails from banned URLs | other image search sites can be blocked
• File downloads blocked from untrusted sites
  a range of file types can only be downloaded from trusted sites
• Maximise your bandwidth
  stores accessed pages for instant reuse | block bandwidth-hungry timewasting sites

Protex – the advantages are clear:

Graduated Filtering

Protex provides pre-configured filtering profiles giving the appropriate protection to users of different ages and developed by extensive consultation with teachers.

Sophisticated content checking

Protex checks the content of every web page and blocks it if limits for the active profile are exceeded.

Automatic Updates

The main Protex filtering lists are updated automatically every 24 hours. An Emergency block facility enables high-risk content to be blocked across the Protex community within 15 minutes of a change.

Scalable

Systems are available to service small to large populations of users. From a single-appliance serving a single small school – to high-availability multi-cluster systems serving half a million users or more.

Maximises Broadband potential

Protex’s built-in caching stores regularly-accessed content locally, making best use of the available network capacity. Protex filtering blocks requests to blacklisted sites freeing bandwidth for delivery of educational content.

Out-of-the-box solution

You can use the pre-built profiles safe in the knowledge they will meet educational e-safety standards.

Web-based Administration

Allows the administrator to block or unblock sites and urls with immediate effect, run reports and track usage.

Secure System

Protex is password protected with little to configure and all changes are logged providing an audit-trail.

No software to install on PCs

Protex runs as a web-proxy.

Simple Pricing Model

Pricing is based on the download capacity of the system installed - not per user.