April 2, 2008
Clarkston Schools Selects DeepNines iTrust Security to Protect its 10,000 Users
iTrust Scores an A+ at Clarkston Community Schools
DALLAS, TX - DeepNines Technologies, the leader in integrated security solutions designed to actively control emerging Internet threats, today announced that Clarkston Community Schools has selected DeepNines iTrust, a multi-layer security defense system that guards against unauthorized Internet usage while prioritizing good, educational content and applications.
“Protecting students and schools is always top of mind for us at DeepNines,” said Dan Jackson, COO and president of DeepNines. “Being selected by Clarkston to protect its over 8,000 students further validates our commitment to providing comprehensive network security while keeping children safe and enhancing their online education experience,” added Jackson.
Clarkston Community Schools serves approximately 8,500 students and faculty in the eastern Michigan town of Clarkston. This well-respected district has achieved the status of Honor Board from the Michigan Association of School Boards (MASB). Prior to DeepNines, Clarkston had implemented solutions from Websense and Barracuda in an attempt to protect and apply policy across their network. Clarkston came to DeepNines looking for an all-inclusive solution that could prevent web proxies and other unauthorized Internet usage, while providing granular policy control and bandwidth management.
“We were impressed with the way DeepNines iTrust could help us block inappropriate content that might otherwise find ways around our current solution.” said, Matt McCarty, executive director of technology. “We pride ourselves on putting our students first and quickly decided to deploy DeepNines iTrust to protect our most critical assets at Clarkston – the children,” continued McCarty.
DeepNines iTrust provides school districts complete, real-time visibility of all Internet traffic, including traffic on all ports and using all protocols. School districts can then use this detailed information to make informed decision about how to manage content and access on their network. Unlike traditional content and URL filtering solutions, DeepNines iTrust is the only solution that enables you to limit or block student’s access to new and emerging types of content including social networking sites, web proxies, peer-to-peer, instant messaging, online gaming, etc. Only DeepNines inspects every packet, port and protocol to ensure that no type of unwanted content can get by the device. In addition, iTrust prioritizes bandwidth for critical, education-related content and applications to ensure that they are always accessible to students and teachers.
About DeepNines
DeepNines Technologies is a premier network security solutions provider that takes a visionary approach to security, with a patented unified threat management (UTM) appliance and a network access control (NAC) solution that is both straightforward and effective. DeepNines’ scalable security platform integrates firewall, signature and behavior-based intrusion prevention and traffic management into a single solution that prevents both known and unknown attacks from entering the network. DeepNines solutions for the education market focus on providing schools with true CIPA compliance and protecting students from dangerous online content. With a full suite of security solutions, DeepNines will protect your network “deep into the nines.” To learn more about DeepNines, please visit www.deepnines.com.
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