New Users
Home
Products Guide
Recommend Products
People
Hot Companies
Technology
Case Studies
Awards
About This Guide
Liberty County School District
Background: Liberty County School district has 11,000 students and staff members across 17 locations, in Hinesville, Georgia. It consists of eight elementary, three middle and two high schools. With a focus on K-12 education, the district stresses the importance of academic excellence, good citizenship and an enhanced learning experience through use of technology. The district’s highly qualified staff of certified teachers and support personnel are dedicated to providing access to technology in every classroom. This way, students are able to achieve their full potential and become productive members of a global, technological society.
Challenges: This is a distributed network, with locations scattered throughout Hinesville, Georgia. The district’s IT administrators faced two main challenges: a) maintaining Children’s Internet Protection Act (CIPA) compliance, which requires detailed reporting and IT enforcement and b) finding a product that would protect students from potential cyber bullying with a limited amount of time and money invested. The district needed a reliable Internet-filtering solution in order to comply with strict requirements set forth by the CIPA, and receive E-rate funding. Since the district’s previous Web-filtering was not dependable, eight of its educational institutions were at a risk of losing government E-rate funds. b. The potential for cyber bullying, online gang conflicts and threatening posts was increasing due to students’ ability to get through the previous, software-based Web-filtering product. With this in mind, IT administrators wanted a hardened appliance-based solution, which would keep them reassured that students are not bypassing the product’s filtering and security loopholes.
Challenges: This is a distributed network, with locations scattered throughout Hinesville, Georgia. The district’s IT administrators faced two main challenges: a) maintaining Children’s Internet Protection Act (CIPA) compliance, which requires detailed reporting and IT enforcement and b) finding a product that would protect students from potential cyber bullying with a limited amount of time and money invested.
“High value scientific software, such as our customer’s award winning product, is ripe for hackers to exploit and distribute because it commands a premium price point and provides strong business benefit. Given the widely distributed use of this software, across widespread global locations, and in countries without strong IP enforcement policies, our customer was losing over half their revenues to piracy. They have deployed Arxan on their flagship application and it has withstood over five months of deployment in the wild. The customer has now expanded their use of Arxan across the enterprise to over 20 applications."
Mike Dager, CEO of Arxan Technologies, Inc.
Issues: Students were finding ways to surpass the previously deployed Internet-filtering product, which proved to be an easy obstacle to overcome. IT managers were constantly on-the-watch, making sure none of the CIPA rules weren’t broken and the district was fully compliant with mandatory state and government regulations. Time spent constantly monitoring Web activity took away from other initiatives, such as finding new ways to integrate technology into the classroom. A recent Kamaron Institute Research report unveiled that cyber bullying incidents tracked at six percent in 2000, and are now estimated to range from 18 percent to 42 percent of students in grades four through eight. In addition, 21 percent to 49 percent of students in grades six through 12 say they have been bullied online. Liberty County wanted to avoid any potential issues associated with Cyber Bullying by preventing kids from accessing social-networking sites, among others. In addition, IT administrators needed to move on from the current solution in place and find a more reliable appliance-based product, which would not only help with the above-mentioned issues, but also protect against the students’ Instant Messaging (IM) and Peer-to-Peer (P2P) file-sharing habits, further exposing the district’s network to Internet-based threats, viruses and malware.
Issues: Students were finding ways to surpass the previously deployed Internet-filtering product, which proved to be an easy obstacle to overcome. IT managers were constantly on-the-watch, making sure none of the CIPA rules weren’t broken and the district was fully compliant with mandatory state and government regulations. Time spent constantly monitoring Web activity took away from other initiatives, such as finding new ways to integrate technology into the classroom.
A recent Kamaron Institute Research report unveiled that cyber bullying incidents tracked at six percent in 2000, and are now estimated to range from 18 percent to 42 percent of students in grades four through eight. In addition, 21 percent to 49 percent of students in grades six through 12 say they have been bullied online. Liberty County wanted to avoid any potential issues associated with Cyber Bullying by preventing kids from accessing social-networking sites, among others.
In addition, IT administrators needed to move on from the current solution in place and find a more reliable appliance-based product, which would not only help with the above-mentioned issues, but also protect against the students’ Instant Messaging (IM) and Peer-to-Peer (P2P) file-sharing habits, further exposing the district’s network to Internet-based threats, viruses and malware.
Solution provided by St. Bernard: The district chose iPrism, St. Bernard’s dedicated Web-filtering appliance to enforce appropriate use of the Internet for its students and staff. Unlike other hardware and software-based solutions that the district reviewed, iPrism provides Liberty County School District with drill-down reporting of all Internet users, URLs visited and time spent on certain sites, allowing for quick disciplinary action, when needed. This further enhances the district’s compliance with mandatory regulations, ensuring ongoing E-rate funding. Thanks to the accuracy of iGuard™, St. Bernard’s 100% human-reviewed URL database, the district’s IT department spends drastically less time researching and adding inappropriate sites to the list of blocked outlets. An Allow/Block feature manages access to research-related sites, also enabling administrators to simply ‘turn off’ the Internet during certain hours of the day. Lastly, iPrism controls all Internet-based threats, such as spyware, IM and P2P file sharing in one solution, at one of the most affordable prices in the industry.
Solution provided by St. Bernard: The district chose iPrism, St. Bernard’s dedicated Web-filtering appliance to enforce appropriate use of the Internet for its students and staff. Unlike other hardware and software-based solutions that the district reviewed, iPrism provides Liberty County School District with drill-down reporting of all Internet users, URLs visited and time spent on certain sites, allowing for quick disciplinary action, when needed. This further enhances the district’s compliance with mandatory regulations, ensuring ongoing E-rate funding.
Thanks to the accuracy of iGuard™, St. Bernard’s 100% human-reviewed URL database, the district’s IT department spends drastically less time researching and adding inappropriate sites to the list of blocked outlets.
An Allow/Block feature manages access to research-related sites, also enabling administrators to simply ‘turn off’ the Internet during certain hours of the day.
Lastly, iPrism controls all Internet-based threats, such as spyware, IM and P2P file sharing in one solution, at one of the most affordable prices in the industry.
"Thanks to our partnership with Arxan, we can rely upon best-of-breed anti-tamper and anti-hacking technologies. These technologies help our customers ward off new and emerging threats, in a manner which is both extremely user friendly and without impact on application performance."
Vice President Engineering of Thomson, a secure multi-media software company.
Summary: Since deploying iPrism, the IT team has noticed a significant decrease in the amount of time needed for administration of content filtering throughout the district. Liberty County realizes that students will always try to get around the filter, but with iPrism in place, they have a sense of security that unacceptable sites and IM are being monitored and/or blocked. In order to receive E-rate funding through the federal government, school districts that provide students with Internet access must show they have a Web filter in place. With iPrism, Liberty County is now able to take advantage of these benefits.
St. Bernard 15015 Avenue of Science San Diego, CA 92128 Tel: 1-858 676 2277
Download the document From Info Security Products Guide site: CLICK HERE
Recommend this to others:
HOME |
ADVERTISE WITH US |
TELL US ABOUT YOURSELF |
UPDATED PRIVACY POLICY |
Copyright © 2007 Silicon Valley Communications - All rights reserved.
