The data will be presented to a relevant educational or policy-making body at the conclusion of the study. While the Internet is an incredible tool for our nation's youth, and continues to be adopted in record proportions, it also delivers thousands of new objectionable Web sites each day. The company is offering Websense for Schools free for a period of two years to all K-12 schools nationwide starting in July 1999. Each week the Websense team adds several thousand additional objectionable Web sites to the database. These updates are automatically available to participating schools, at no charge.
Updates can take place automatically in the middle of the night to minimize disruptions.
Websense for Schools is based on the same technology and superior database employed by award-winning Websense Enterprise filtering software currently used by more than 4,000 corporations, many of them Fortune 500 companies. The Websense database currently has more than 670,000 objectionable sites, and utilizing advanced search technology, the company identifies as many as 10,000 new sites each week. Once approved, the schools can then download the software. Websense, Inc. is based in San Diego, California and is a leading provider of Internet access management and reporting software and services. Websense currently serves 2,700 schools across the country and also is the market leader for Internet content filtering in the business marketplace serving more than 4,000 corporations, many of them Fortune 500 companies.