Filtering | PRIMARY WATCH

It’s essential that children are safeguarded from potentially harmful and inappropriate online material. An effective whole school approach to online safety empowers a school to protect and educate students, and staff in their use of technology. It establishes ways to identify, intervene in, and escalate any concerns where appropriate.

Primary Watch filtering ensures your school has appropriate filtering and monitoring systems in place and we regularly review their effectiveness.  We ensure all stakeholders have an awareness and understanding of the provisions in place and know how to manage them effectively and know how to escalate concerns when identified. 

How it works

Keeping things simple, Primary Watch blocks certain websites from loading on a schools network, by comparing all web traffic against a URL filtering database.
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Each website contained within the database is assigned to a category. Each category contains a group of URLs related to the same topic and categories can be either “blocked” or “allowed”.

​Primary Watch can categorise inappropriate topics like pornography or gambling websites, and also all known URLs used for phishing attacks. If a user attempts to reach a blocked URL within these categories, they will be redirected to a "blocked" page.

​Primary Watch can block individual URLs, also, that are known to be dangerous or inappropriate. However blocking categories is much more efficient - it allows large groups of sites to be blocked at once instead of having to identify hundreds of individual ones.

​The solution provides full control over the web content that can be accessed by pupils and staff, enabling schools to fully protect their networks and users from malicious security threats, and to enhance staff productivity.

A 100% cloud-based solution - Primary Watch is quick and easy to install, with no discernible impact on internet speed. It has a low management overhead and can be used on any system to protect any number of users.

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