E-Safety Shameless Plug

Here is our new thing – trying to protect Children, Teachers and Parents from the dangers of browsing the web.

MC Ware delivers content filtering for the Education and Corporate Sector using a unique combination of the Sonicwall Premium Content Filter and a custom written Forensic Computing program (Big thanks to http://www.hdforensics.co.uk and Simon Mitchell) that studies the existing network for Internet Trends.

Security Manager Series (CSM), is an appliance-based gateway security and content filtering solution that integrates real-time gateway anti-virus, anti-spyware and intrusion prevention to deliver maximum network protection from today’s sophisticated Internet threats. While continuing to increase employee productivity, optimise network utilization and mitigate any legal liability. This unique solution integrates seamlessly behind any firewall, enabling companies of all sizes to upgrade their security without upgrading their firewall.

MC Ware Education Forensic Solution includes the following: –

Extraction
Auto Extraction via a custom written program that leaves no footprint whilst gathering all internet history from a network.

Education
MC Ware using it’s own staff of Law Enforcement professionals will help to train teachers, students and parents on the topic of “Using the E-Safety to protect students, staff and parents”

Reporting
MC Ware report to the designated person every six weeks for a project update and a briefing session on recent surfing trends on their network

Legitimate Sites Blocked
This can often be very frustrating and MC Ware offer a “local access” telephone number and will endeavour to unblock the site for the user or group within 5 minutes if approved for use. If the AUP of the individual school needs further authorisation then this will also be sought by MC ware

Google Keywords
MC ware reports include: –
Google, Bing, Ask, Yahoo and many other search engine results. This lets us report on what is been searched for very quickly.

“Movers and shakers”
Our report will show movement in the hosts (URL’s)visited which often indicates a particular trend.

Hidden Browsing and Proxies
MC Ware subscribe to an update service that will block most proxy servers. Some proxy servers allow for anonymous browsing but our forensic software will let us know about all websites visited, by whom and at what time.  Our Forensic solution will find just about any proxy

Experience
MC ware and HD Forensics spend every single day protecting networks and network users from unwanted content. We keep up to date with the trends and we know how to report in clear lay terms allowing action to be taken quickly.  We are also heavily involved in the aftermath of these cases and know all of the signs to look for.

Update of Content Filters

Using our central command software we are able to update all content filters lists within a couple of minutes.

Advanced replacement of hardware
MC Ware will dispatch a replacement firewall same day and if you are based in the North East it will be hand delivered and installed “same day”

CRB Checked Engineers for E-Safety
All MC Ware engineers and HD Forensics examiners are “CRB Checked”

Home Access Program – Laptops for Home
MC Ware has a software solution that will transparently monitor web activity on laptops that are offered to children.
Infected PDF’s
We are seeing that more and more images and malware are getting delivered via PDF as most people seem to think these are safe to open. They are not but by combining our solutions we will be able to assist by blocking via our “reputation” filters and this helps the payload or malware from executing. Likely symptoms include: –
Starting a key logger program and sending everything you type back to a third party
Your machine may be set up as a “bot” to assist in distributing spam or malware around the Internet.
You may be allowing someone to remotely control your computers
Education Content Filter*
Education IT Services Provider
School Forensics
Two Way Content Filter
Education E-Safety Solutions*
E-Safety Consultants
E-Safety in schools*
Protect children on the Internet
Home access program*
E-safety*

We know that anything to do with Government tendering should normally be steered well clear of but in this case it would be crazy for us not to use the benefit of our Networking and Computer Forensics background to help with E-Safety in Schools.