Cyberoam Champions CIPA Compliance

We first met a representative of Cyberoam at a large educational technology conference, on the expo show floor. Back in 2012, the problem to be solved at the time was related to students taking home one-to-one devices. While we were originally interested and had purchased their easy to manage home routers for our student's homes, we quickly turned our attention to their firewall UTM products. While we use other brands of firewalls, including others in the Gartner upper right quadrant, head-to-head with other vendors, no one else but Cyberoam understood K-12 education. Till this day, they're the only firewall product with 1-click Children’s Internet Protection Act (CIPA) compliance. Firewall policies don't have to be established for each category as they're grouped together in an ideal way which makes overhead management very minimal. This is ideal for IT shops like ours with a small number of IT staff managing enterprise-class equipment. The firewall in this use case is specifically for a segment of our university network that has K-12 students connecting to the network. Faculty and staff of the K-12 school also connect to the same segment. We granular filter by grade level and have different policies by grade level and faculty/staff.