Technicians+and+Managers

=__ Technicians and Managers __=

Wallwisher Stickeys

 i. ** Webroot **– a presentation by Alex from Webroot was there to promote a software as a service (SaaS) which will meet the needs of securing – email, Internet provision and Desktop security. One customer – London Grid for Learning. Used in conjunction with an antivirus software (recommended Sophos as the best one) it gives 100% security for your network from risks created by email use, internet surfing and desktop use. Is breaking into the school market and for Email use would charge annually per email account, for Internet – per concurrent access. Can save costs as can do away with own proxy server as would use theirs in the Internet cloud (hosted in Thailand, Singapore etc). Each client will have 3 data centres. Email – can manage online, see all spam logs, can report back all spam received. If don’t meet a certain target % - will give discount on subscription. Users can have access to check for false positives. There is a tracking system; can build own rules; has an image scanner which you can detect the % of skin to protect against pornography. Keeps email up to 28 days if email server is down; can archive, create reports and provide encrypted email. Can be used to send out bulk emails that may be prevented by the ISP as considered SPAM Internet provision – will cover all laptops that access the Internet via this gateway, keeps a log, proxy in the cloud can cache, can be integrated with AD, can control downloading and uploading and can categorize websites so can set policy and set access to different groups at different times e.g. FB after school hours, can set web quotas, provide reports. Also can save bandwidth as compresses all Internet data packets and savings from blocking Spam at the proxy not the school site. Offers a free trial but did not give costing details. Also Alex promised a copy of the presentation.