filtering. It's $40 a year since we have several different IPs in different
CIDR blocks that we cover. Dyndns is also our authoritative DNS server for
our domain. (Open DNS provides similar capability.) I spend under a $100 a
year for everything DynDNS does for us.
Anybody who really knows what they are doing can get around services like
Internet Guide and Open DNS, but that takes premeditation. We only blocked
pornography, proxies, hacking, phishing, and virus sites. All of our
computers in our lower school are in places that are always supervised when
students are present.
Sure, we could get better protection on site--but at much higher cost and
more complexity.
--=20
Derrel Fincher
Director of Information and Communication Technology
Graded - The American School of S=E3o Paulo
http://www.graded.br | (55 11) 3747-4800 x160
On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 1:17 AM, Jack Hardcastle <
jwhardcastle@jwhardcastle.com> wrote:
> Dear ISED Colleagues,
>
> First, per the signup e-mail, my name is Jack Hardcastle and in a month
> I'll
> take over as director of technology at the McDonogh School outside
> Baltimore, Maryland. We're a private co-ed K-12 college prep school with
> about 1300 students and 250 faculty and staff. :D
>
> Second, I have been searching the ISED archives for information about thi=
s
> topic, but I find nothing more current than messages from 2000. How do y=
ou
> accomplish web filtering? The product we purchased several years ago wen=
t
> from $5,000 to $30,000 after several acquisitions, and we're looking for
> other options.
>
> Do you use a software solution? Do you use an appliance? Do you do
> named-user licensing (expensive) or do you have one filter for your whole
> institution (students AND faculty), and if so how do you deal with allowi=
ng
> productivity for faculty while protecting little ones from the dark alley=
s
> of the net?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Jack Hardcastle
> jwhardcastle@mcdonogh.org
>
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