CIPA (Children’s Internet Protection Act) is a bill enacted by the United States Congress in 2000 due to growing concerns over the inappropriate content, harmful and obscene content that children have access to online.
What Do I Look for in a CIPA Compliant Content Filter? Read More »
At Netsweeper, our data shows that terrorist and extremist content are on the rise on the internet — hate speech sites alone have more than doubled since the pandemic again. Our partner, the CTIRU (Counter Terrorism Internet Referral Unit) has seen a 7% increase in 2020 the amount of suspected terrorist content, compared to the year previous.
The Importance of Web Filtering Regarding Counter-Terrorism and Extremism Read More »
Netsweeper is proud to be a longstanding member of the IWF and continues to support their goal of eliminating child sexual abuse content online. The primary goal of the Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) is to control online sexual abuse content.
Netsweeper and the IWF Tackling Online Child Exploitation Read More »
Geoff, our Product Manager, joins us to help dispel some common myths regarding web filtering. Myth #1: Web Filtering is Only About Control Myth #2: Cloud is the Only Right Solution Myth #3: A UTM is an Appropriate Solution for Web Filtering
Top 3 Web Filtering Myths Busted Read More »
At Netsweeper, our data shows that child exploitation, cybercrime, and illicit content are on the rise on the internet – child exploitation sites alone have quadrupled since the pandemic again, and the Internet Watch Foundation has seen a 77% increase in the amount of self-generated child sexual abuse content. Now more than ever, web filtering has become a necessity to protect users on the internet.
We’ve been getting a lot of questions from schools and school boards all around the world about remote filtering, so we decided to create a webinar series that answers your questions. Learn how you can facilitate safe and effective remote learning in Part 2 of our series.
Remote Learning Enablement During COVID (Part 2) Read More »
We’ll be covering some best practices, the technology that we use, and how to make the best out of home learning for your students with the help of Craig Butler, the UK account manager for Netsweeper.
Remote Learning Enablement During COVID Read More »
We know a lot of people are interested in the capabilities of our fairly new technology nMonitor. We are going to showcase how it differentiates from nFilter URL filtering and dive into the reporting and alerting capabilities in this blog post.
We know a lot of people are interested in the capabilities of our fairly new technology nMonitor. We are going to showcase how it differentiates from nFilter URL filtering and dive into the reporting and alerting capabilities in this blog post.
How to Ensure Digital Safety with onGuard (Part 3) Read More »
Welcome to the second part of the How to Ensure Digital Safety with Netsweeper Series where we dive deep into the technical details of logging and reporting. In the previous blog post, we took a high-level…
How to Ensure Student Digital Safety with Netsweeper (Part 2) Read More »
COVID-19 has been big business for child exploitation. So, I wasn’t surprised to see news reports about the alleged non-consensual porn, child-sex abuse and rape on the website Pornhub — a Quebec-based company with a huge global following.
Pornhub, Big Tech and the Silent Victims of COVID-19 Read More »
We’ve been getting a lot of questions from schools and school boards all around the world, so we decided to create a webinar series that answers your questions. We’ll be taking a high-level overview of what Netsweeper has to offer in Part 1 of our series.
How to Ensure Student Digital Safety with Netsweeper (Part 1) Read More »
