Industry Solutions
Education
The education sector has its own specific email and Internet security requirements and has demanding policy needs. These needs relate to the size of the establishment and the unique requirements of users - both students and staff.
The challenge for educational institutions is to provide a safe working and learning environment for all users, and also to provide appropriate access to resources. If, for example, there has been a failure to prevent minors accessing illegal or inappropriate content from the network, the exposure caused to the educational establishment can be devastating - both in terms of legal action and in loss of professional reputation.
Marshal provides solutions that are granular and powerful enough to protect students and staff from accessing or being sent inappropriate content.
Marshal's flexible pricing options and generous educational discounts make Marshal the solution of choice for educational institutions the world over.
Marshal provides a range of solutions that provide specific benefits for the education sector.
Enforcement of Policies against Inappropriate Content
Whether an educational institution is teaching primary school-age children or university students, they all have strict standards on how learning and communication tools (like email and the Internet) can be used. Common requirements are the prohibition of pornography, profanity, racist or hate content and other inappropriate content. Universities and colleges often take a proactive approach to issues such as harassment and racism by banning the use of certain words in email.
MailMarshal and WebMarshal can help educational institutions meet their legal obligations by blocking access to inappropriate web sites and blocking email messages containing offensive language. MailMarshal and WebMarshal are completely flexible, allowing faculty members to access different types of web or email content than students.
MailMarshal with Image Analyzer can detect and block pornographic images attached to emails. This makes it possible to control pornography being shared around your email environment. With WebMarshal, you can not only block access to pornographic web content, but also establish whitelists of approved content and limit student access to these approved websites.
Managing Large Numbers of Users
Universities and colleges have requirements for very high numbers of users. Often these number in the tens of thousands, and there are thousands of new and expired accounts every semester. Marshal solutions make it easy to maintain, authenticate and apply policy enforcement to this ever-changing user environment.
Marshal solutions are high performing and very scalable, able to support thousands of users on a single server. Management of multiple servers is simple and easy through a centrally controlled console. No other solution in the industry can boast the enterprise-class management features available in Marshal solutions.
Sophisticated Security
There are always some students who will try to bend the rules to see what they can get away with. Many other content security solution vendors say that they can control attachments or block pornography, but often those products are easy to circumvent. Common tricks include changing file extensions or applying double name extensions. These simple changes can bypass many other products on the market – but not Marshal solutions.
If you ban certain file types, you can apply that ban to Internet downloads as well as email. This includes webmail accounts such as Gmail or Hotmail. Issues such as plagiarism are also a concern for educational customers. With MailMarshal, you can search for specific passages of text - even inside a Word document or other file type - and record who is sharing assignments or re-using text.
Marshal can also ensure that copyrighted material such as maps - or any sensitive, confidential data - is not removed from the network by students using removable media. Marshal Endpoint Security protects educational establishments from accidental or deliberate data leakage via USB sticks at the endpoint.
Legal Compliance
These days, educational institutions come under intense scrutiny from the public and the government. Issues such as bullying, sexual harassment, racism, copyright, pornography, religion and chat room predators mean that educational institutions are required to take every reasonable and practical step to protect children in their charge. Marshal solutions allow you to monitor and control all of these issues to the highest legal standards and to deal immediately with any issues that might arise.
In the USA, legislation such as CIPA (Child Internet Protection Act) and DOPA (Delete Online Predators Act) are already in force. These laws mandate that schools and other publicly funded organizations, such as libraries, block access to pornographic content, as well as online chat services that can expose young children to sexual predators. Other jurisdictions are beginning to follow suit.
Marshal solutions can block access to pornographic websites and prohibited chat rooms, and can control pornographic email attachments. Marshal solutions can be a significant component in showing compliance with these kinds of requirements.
Marshal recognizes the unique needs of K-20 and is pleased to provide solution designed specifically to meet those Needs – with SchoolMarshal. For more information, visit
www.schoolmarshal.com.
