eSafe Earns an A+ at Rowan-Salisbury

eSafe allows Rowan-Salisbury to focus resources on education

Rowan-Salisbury School District uses eSafe to keep students and networks safe

“eSafe allows us to focus our resources on our educational environment. We aren’t spending our time trying to react to anonymizers and inappropriate sites, or viruses and malware. Now we have a good, sound and secure place for students. The teachers can go back to being teachers again, not the anonymous proxy police.”

Phil Hardin
Executive Director of Technology,
Rowan-Salisbury School District

Company Profile

With 21,000 students, 3100 staff and 34 schools, Rowan-Salisbury School District is the seventeenth largest school district in North Carolina.

Business Challenges

  • Initial requests were for an e-mail filter to remove malicious spam from employee inboxes to prevent a second crippling blacklist incident
  • Recognizing the educational value of integrating computers and the Internet into the classroom, protecting the students from accessing harmful or inappropriate content while online quickly became a priority
  • Rowan-Salisbury is also faced with the challenge of protecting the district’s network from viruses, spam and other malware, by way of anonymous web browsing tools that students used to access restricted sites
  • Comply with the Children’s Internet Protection Act (CIPA) regulations to qualify for federal E-Rate funding, requiring the school system to protects the students from harmful or malicious content on the Web


 

Solution

  • eSafe Secure Web Gateway - keeps the Rowan-Salisbury network safe and block policy circumvention attempts through the unauthorized use of anonymizers.
  • Complete Protection
    • Blocks 100% of anonymizers
    • Works across the threat vector to proactively protect
      against inappropriate sites, malware, spam and phishing
      attacks
    • Teachers can focus on teaching, and technical staff can work proactively rather than reactively
  • Simple Implementation - eSafe offers an out-of-the-box solution with excellent security policy settings that does not require extensive time or tech support to maintain.