Securly Filtering Education

Web monitoring, filtering and blocking in schools is serious business. There are a lot of “enterprise” companies out there that have taken on education as a vertical, but don’t necessarily address the needs of today’s modern classroom.

A filtering solution for an office may totally block YouTube or Wikipedia. Why do a company’s secretaries, sales associates or even managers need access to those sites? They probably don’t.

On the other hand, schools may need access to those sites and countless others but at the same time they need to be able to filter what students can view on those sites. They also need to be able to filter the web in such a way that a fifth grader can’t find a short cut to inappropriate content or even a social network.

Enter Securly, a company that realized the needs for education were different than every other industry in the world. With that, they decided that their cloud based web filtering solution would only be available for schools. This means that the company as a whole from engineers to customer service representatives work on only one thing, the needs of educators.

“Unlike many other web filters, Securly works only with K-12 schools. This means that we are well-positioned to meet education-specific needs and all of our new features and updates are relevant to schools. Although web filters are traditionally thought of as being relevant for IT admins, we also make our service accessible/beneficial to school administrators, teachers, and parents.” Awais Ahsan with Securly told us in an interview.

They’re also the first web filtering company to integrate with Google Apps for education, which is rapidly expanding it’s foot print.

We got a chance to talk with Securly. Check out our video interview below and for more info visit securly.com