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
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