The Internet is a wonderful tool for education. Unfortunately, students too often encounter Internet content that distracts from learning rather than enriching it.
Sites promoting pornography, hate, violence, and criminal behavior are now pervasive on the Web.
As a result, Internet filtering has become a necessity for schools. As a proxy server set up for our domain, Bess manages all Internet traffic and filters requested Web pages through a comprehensive database of rated sites. Trained professionals examine thousands of Web sites each day to determine which ones should be added to the filter database. Because Bess is network-based, students can't bypass the filtering. BESS does not rely on Key-word searches as do most other Internet filtering products.