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All the latest from Talk StraightIMPORTANT PLEASE READ - New Trusted Certificate Deployment Required
Good Morning All, As most of you are aware to provide the level of filtering required by schools we require a trusted certificate to be installed within your local networks. This allows us to intercept traffic to places such as Google and both filter/report on searches being made. The certificate in place is due to expire on the 24th of May ... Read More
E-Safety - Quic Browser Option
We are seeing an increase in E-Safety concerns where pupils and staff are able to access content that they shouldn't. The root cause of many cases is the use of QUIC in the browser. QUIC uses UDP port 80 and 443, these can be blocked at the firewall level if requested but other programs do also use these. Please be sure to block QUIC for all ... Read More
New Educational Features have been added to the Schools Broadband Filtering Service
As part of a new partnership with the National Crime Agency, we are excited to share with you the launch of our newly developed educational filtering block page service. Now, when search terms contain keywords relating to cyber crime, a new block page will appear that informs the user of the ... Read More
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