CIPA is The Children’s Internet Protection Act, and it is a federal law instituted to address long standing concerns about the quality of the content accessed by children at schools and at libraries. Since most schools and libraries in the country are tied up to federal funding, it is necessary for them to install necessary processes to make sure that the school / library receives funds as is eligible. Unless the CIPA requirements are met, funding in the form of E-Rate discounts (which makes internet affordable to schools and libraries) does not come through.

To be compliant with current CIPA guidelines, it is necessary that schools and libraries have a content filtering system in place which is robust enough to block sites which are obscene, contain unsuitable material, and can be operated according to age – so that minors don’t see sites which are not for them.

It is also necessary that schools have a policy in place through which they can monitor the online activities of their users.

WOW Filter makes sure that your school does not get penalized by the federal laws and loses funding because there is no proper content filtering system in place. Even our free filter is terribly strong and weeds out all opportunities for bad content to make inroads into your school browsing system. Whether it is students, teachers, or visitors, you can make sure that they are kept safe by installing WOW Filter as a part of your internet infrastructure. WOW Filter takes care of a lot of concerns, like

● Strong filtering for obscenity and pornography

● Web filtering with an up-to-date database

● Threat monitoring backed by a constantly updated list, which blocks worms, Trojans, spyware, malware, adware, and phishing

● Image Filtering – including those which come up on search engine result pages

● Monitoring and Reporting tools to keep a tab on the online activities of your students, and

● Policy Management – to enable the institution to set its own internet policies based on the age group of the users and the needs

Being CIPA Compliant is no longer difficult. Just plug into the WOW Filter program and you can make your school / library’s internet access much safer and even faster! Ask us for more information today!