The Bloxx Web filtering appliance has added the new Bing search engine to its SafeSearch blocking. The Bloxx appliance can be set up to automatically enforce SafeSearch on search engines, even when users try to change the settings. Read more…
Bloxx has launched a drive to recruit channel distributors and resellers to sell its product across the EMEA region.
With great margins and proactive channel support, security partners should definitely look to Bloxx if they want to increase their sales and give their customers a web filter that will increase their protection and security.
If you want more information on becoming a Bloxx channel partner, please fill in your details on the Bloxx website.
The BBC has reported that a Scottish teacher who posted messages discussing her pupils on a social networking website is being investigated by her employers. You can read the full story here.
The secondary teacher in Argyll and Bute is understood to have posted up to 38 updates a day on the Twitter site and based on the times of the tweet, many of them were created during the school day.
The council have stated that they block access to all social networking sites, but it’s possible that the teacher managed to bypass the council’s filtering,
Bloxx now has a Twitter Page. Follow your favourite Web content filtering company for the latest tweets: twitter.com/bloxx
When you think about the challenges of providing a safe and secure learning environment in education, you might reasonably believe that the focus is almost entirely around students.
But as a couple of stories that surfaced in the UK press in the last week so have shown, if schools and colleges put all of their efforts into managing web access for students without paying the same level of attention to staff, then its a perilous road they tread.
The launch of Google Street View in the UK last week certainly hit the headlines. In the first 24 hours there were a number of memorable images available that had somehow slipped through Google’s net; a man being sick outside a pub, youths with traffic cones on their heads and a man leaving a sex shop, seemed to be the most talked about.
However, there was one sentence in Saturday’s Guardian that highlighted the challenge organisations face whenever a new hot application emerges on the web. Read more…
Hitwise has revealed that in the UK for the year to date, Facebook is the most popular search term with 2.39% searches dedicated to this term as well as being the second most visited site in the UK behind Google. It receives an unbelievable 1 in every 24 internet visits and its traffic has doubled in the last year alone.
So what implications do these statistics have for organisations? Many of these visits to social networking sites will be during working time – the press has covered many cases of employees being sacked for accessing social networking sites during working time.
The UK government has released anti-extremist guidelines for colleges to adhere to following a number of cases involving students using college facilities to promote terrorism. The report by the Department for Universities and Skills and the Association of Colleges, recommends that higher education establishments ensure they monitor staff and students’ internet activity and report anything unusual to the police. Read more…
A story hit the press in the UK last week about a company who had dismissed two employees (who by coincidence happened to be sisters) for gross misconduct related to excessive personal use of the Internet during working hours. Read more…
It is extremely important that healthcare organisations have effective web filtering in place to maintain employee productivity and reduce the risk of legal liability and employee dismissals.
NHS Waltham Forest in North London, UK, has just deployed Bloxx’s Tru-View Technology to protect over 800 staff and maintain a healthy and uninterrupted internet connection. Read more…
