Lightspeed Systems: Total Traffic Control

My notes from a vendor session at MACE 2007 about Lightspeed Systems.

Lightspeed has been around for 20 years, solely focused on school districts
– in 5000 schools, based in California but are all over the country
– beginning: was eRate sold bandwidth manager and firewall appliance
– that was around 9 years ago

After that, started incorporating more filtering, reporting, spam blocking
– then created agent for antivirus program like Cisco CSA agenta
– controlling removable media like flash drives, blocking executables but still providing read/write access

What happens when student laptops go home and they are not filtered?

Explore demo reports you get with Lightspeed:
– reports.lightspeedsystems.com

Look up info on blocked sites and viruses identified on the Lightspeed system:
– archive.lightspeedsystems.com

Logs and archives all traffic on the network including email and IM (maybe not Skype currently)

I could not take more notes because I loaned the presenter my laptop (his couldn’t get on the wireless)

I recorded this session and will post as a podcast later.

Pricing is approx $10 per workstation, you have to buy the software or can get a hardware and software solutions. They have about 5000 education customers nationwide, some resellers sell this as a managed service

Technorati Tags: metc, metc07

If you enjoyed this post and found it useful, subscribe to Wes’ free newsletter. Check out Wes’ video tutorial library, “Playing with Media.” Information about more ways to learn with Dr. Wesley Fryer are available on wesfryer.com/after.

On this day..