Keeping Children Safe in Education

Advanced Safeguarding, Content Filtering and Reporting for Education

With the latest changes to Keeping Children Safe in Education (KCSIE), schools must provide clear, actionable reports on student online activity. Protos Networks has partnered with Cisco and Fastvue to ensure safeguarding leads and school IT staff can stay compliant, protect students and gain full visibility into internet activity and threats.

Why Schools Need Enhanced Reporting

The Department for Eduction’s mandatory KCSIE guidelines require that schools and colleges maintain strong online safeguarding measures to protect children both online and offline. Governing bodies must ensure that filtering systems proactively block illegal, inappropriate, and harmful content—such as extremist material and self-harm information—while monitoring systems track user activity and alert staff to concerning behaviours. Designated safeguarding leads, in collaboration with IT teams, must regularly review these systems and ensure that staff are trained to manage emerging risks in line with statutory guidelines.

Features & Benefits

Protect Students

Track student well-being to swiftly identify those at risk for self-harm, extremist activities, substance abuse, violence and other harmful behaviours.

Robust Filtering

Umbrella provides cloud-based content filtering to effectively block harmful, illegal, and inappropriate online content categories.

Detailed Reporting

Thoroughly monitor student internet usage, revealing precise details of the specific times and durations students engage with designated online content.

Instant Alerting

Instantly detect users searching for harmful, inappropriate or extremist topics, network threats and more, and notify those who need to know.

Web Security

Secure Web Gateway features protect your education facility from cyber threats including phishing, malware, ransomware and cryptomining.

KCSIE Compliance

Our comprehensive solution gives you the peace of mind that your school or college meets its KCSIE safeguarding requirements.

How Protos Networks can Help

Protos Networks provides our education customers with a seamless safeguarding solution that combines the strengths of Cisco Umbrella and Fastvue. Cisco Umbrella features Secure Web Gateway features which provide powerful content filtering and web security. Meanwhile, Fastvue keeps an eye on user activity, alerting staff to any concerning behaviour and providing powerful reporting functionality. When combined, these tools create a practical, integrated approach that not only meets KCSIE requirements but gives education facilities the peace of mind that they are keeping their students safe online.

Integrate and Automate Safeguarding Using the Network

Boost your school's cyber security and safeguarding efforts by integrating Fastvue and Cisco Umbrella with Cisco Meraki. Our innovative and automated network solutions offer complete network visibility, effective content filtering, and real-time safety alerts—all managed through an easy-to-use cloud dashboard. Learn more about Cisco Meraki and how it complements your safeguarding solution.