Squid Guard is a free, fully functional version of web filtering software for K12 enterprises. With the advent of CIPA (Children's Internet Privacy Act), K12 organizations need to filter web sites to be eligible for E-Rate funding. However, software, such as web filtering is expensive. For example, Paradise Valley Unified School District is saving approximately $70,000 each and every year by using the Open Source web filtering solution, Squid Guard. Do the math schools and school districts, it adds up fast.
Deployed on top of the Squid Proxy Server, Squid Guard comes with a pre-defined set of "black list" sites (sites that are blocked due to questionable content). Additional blocked sites can be added, and "white lists" (sites that can be let through to particular schools) are also available. By capitalizing on the subnet of your network, a fully customizable version can be deployed, resulting in applicability of sites for grade levels and VLAN's.
Squid Guard is robust, stable and scalable for various sized organizations. At PVUSD, a CD image of the installation and configuration settings are maintained for disaster recovery, resulting in but a few minute disruption should a hardware failure occur.
Deployed on top of the Squid Proxy Server, Squid Guard comes with a pre-defined set of "black list" sites (sites that are blocked due to questionable content). Additional blocked sites can be added, and "white lists" (sites that can be let through to particular schools) are also available. By capitalizing on the subnet of your network, a fully customizable version can be deployed, resulting in applicability of sites for grade levels and VLAN's.
Squid Guard is robust, stable and scalable for various sized organizations. At PVUSD, a CD image of the installation and configuration settings are maintained for disaster recovery, resulting in but a few minute disruption should a hardware failure occur.
