The enterprise web filtering specialist, Bloxx, announced today that The High School of Glasgow has deployed Bloxx web filtering technology to monitor pupil and staff online activity and to provide enhanced security for its IT network.

    With 1,100 pupils, The High School of Glasgow caters for children of all ages, from kindergarten up to the age of 18 years and offers a wide and varied curriculum. It is divided into two campuses for Junior and Senior level, both of which are based in northwest Glasgow.

    Concerns were aroused by IT management that it was becoming increasingly difficult to protect the students from accessing offensive or inappropriate web material whilst at school, due to the decision to replace the school’s existing SurfControl web filtering solution with Bloxx Tru-View Technology.

    Anonymous proxies are websites that allow users to easily bypass web filtering, enabling them to access blocked sites. Blocking access to these sites using URL lists has become difficult and time consuming for IT staff, with hundreds of new proxy sites being created every week.

    Bloxx Tru-View Technology web filtering combines the best of conventional tools with new intelligent identification methods and analysis technologies which can identify and block websites quicker and more accurately than other web filters that rely on manual URL classification and keyword scoring alone. In addition, Bloxx can automatically detect and block the vast majority of newly created anonymous proxy sites, significantly reducing the workload of IT staff and increasing protection against anonymous proxies.

    Since installing Bloxx the school has witnessed considerable benefits. “Not only has Bloxx significantly reduced costs and made my job easier but, more importantly, by design it is much more effective and efficient than SurfControl was. It also has the bonus of malware and anti-virus functionality, adding additional layers of protection to our IT network,” comments Makridis.