CampusNet Managed Internet Services in New Zealand

Watchdog New Zealand has been providing managed Internet Services to New Zealand Schools for over 10 years. In August 2004, Trevor Mallard, the Minister of Education, announced that Watchdog had been approved as a supplier of a managed internet service for state and state-integrated schools. It is the only ISP in New Zealand to provide extensive filtering options for educational institutions to create a safe learning environment for children.

Watchdog's Managed services include:

Web Filtering – the same service that Watchdog has previously provided to schools under its Campus Watchdog brand, this allows schools to control the sites that are accessed through their Internet connection. This can be fully customised.

Email Filtering – the same service that Watchdog has previously provided to schools under its MailWatch brand, this allows schools to control their incoming emails in regard to spam, viruses, attachments and content.

Firewall – a new service from Watchdog whereby a pre-configured firewall unit is provided to the school to be managed by Watchdog to protect the school network from external attacks.

This service is free to all state and state-integrated schools and works with almost any Internet Service Provider/connection type.

Watchdog filtering technology is both flexible and effective!

• We do not block Google Images — we filter them so that you can still access 1000’s of wonderful images.
• We filter http://www.youtube.com/ so you can access the general content on the site but cannot log in to view the adult material (please note - we rely on the self monitoring system of this site).
• We filter Yahoo Groups for safe use.
• We filter https:(secure) sites - we have been doing this for years and many sites that we block are of this type.
• We block anonymous proxies - We also block proxies via pattern recognition. This feature is continually being improved as new proxy signatures are added.This is the best form of defense against these 'cgi' proxies embedded' in web sites.
• We filter both http: and https: sites so proxies on https: are no problem.
• Emails All email addresses are accepted and labelled appropriately (unless the customer requests blocking of SPAM). Attachments are easy to open.