Coconnect Web Filtering Powered by Smoothwall

KCSIE and Prevent Duty Compliant Web Filtering Powered by Smoothwall

Our school web filtering keeps your students and staff safe while they surf the web. We provide industry-leading web-filtering powered by Smoothwall that comply with KCSIE, Prevent Duty, Internet Watch and national standards.

Coconnect has built pre-define web filtering policies over a long time, which acts as a good starting point for any School or MAT; therefore, Schools can implement a working system straightaway and customise it to their liking during and after implementation.

Smoothwall is the leading provider of online safeguarding infrastructure for the UK education sector.

More than 10,000 schools, colleges and multi-academy trusts depend on its filtering technologies to keep the internet safe for their students and staff – and many go through Coconnect.

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Smoothwall Web Filtering

Smoothwall is the leading provider of online safeguarding infrastructure for the UK education sector.

More than 10,000 schools, colleges and multi-academy trusts depend on its filtering technologies to keep the internet safe for their students and staff – and many go through Coconnect.

Protect students and staff

Pioneering filtering tools engineered from the ground up to keep young people safe, updated regularly to help schools stay on top of the latest digital threats.

Stay compliant

Safeguarding solutions that go beyond the legislative requirements and guidelines set out by the Department for Education, Prevent duty and Keeping Children Safe in Education.

Ready to meet your needs

Options to suit all in education, from individual schools and colleges to multi-academy trusts (MATs) – with comprehensive customisation to meet your unique requirements.

Foundations Are What Make Smoothwall Differ

Smoothwall’s roots in pioneering real-time content aware analysis engineered the growth into one of the UK’s favorite School Broadband filtering providers, delivering a best of breed solution to students and educators not just in the UK but around the globe.

Features of Smoothwall Web Filtering

Content-aware analysis

Identify and filter brand new web content in real-time, long before URL lists are provided

Reporting suite

Schedule reports on user activity and view requests in real-time

Layer 7 application control

Control non-web traffic such as Skype and BitTorrent

Gateway anti-malware

Protect your network from web-borne malware attacks

Social media controls

Allow the productive use of social media websites and applications

BYOD guest filtering

Filter guest mobile devices on your Wi-Fi network

Limit bandwidth use by policy

Limit bandwidth use by user, content type, time or location

“Who, What, Where, When” policies

Easily build filtering policies by user, category, time and location

Anonymous proxy blocking

Prevent circumvention of your Acceptable Use Policy

How Can We Help?

We’re a broadband provider that specialises in supplying top notch internet to schools all over the UK. But broadband is just the tip of the Coconnect iceberg! Our safeguarding, security anti-virus, firewalls and cloud services are also available to keep your school running like a well-oiled machine.

So if you fancy checking out what we can do for your school, just fill in your details and we’ll get back to you!