How Schools and Libraries Can Get CIPA Compliance Help Meeting Federal E-Rate Requirements Is Quick and Easy with Barracuda’S Cloudgen Firewall
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How Schools and Libraries Can Get CIPA Compliance Help Meeting federal E-Rate requirements is quick and easy with Barracuda’s CloudGen Firewall. NETWORK AND APP SECURITY How Schools and Libraries Can Get CIPA Compliance Help Meeting federal E-Rate requirements is quick and easy with Barracuda’s CloudGen Firewall. Summary Additionally, ISPs must use technology measures to prevent unauthorized access (or so-called “hacking”) and other unlawful • Compliance with the Children’s Internet Protection Act (CIPA) is activities by minors online, including unauthorized disclosure, use, mandatory for any school or library seeking federal funding. and dissemination of personal information regarding minors, and • Barracuda CloudGen Firewall is an easy, affordable, and top- restricting minors’ access to any other materials deemed harmful rated product for help in certifying CIPA requirements. to them. • Additionally, CloudGen Firewall provides best-in-class In short, CIPA demands a lot from school and library cybersecurity to keep your organization and users safe from administrators, in addition to any technology they choose to help costly digital attacks and fraud. certify and enforce the law. Before receiving any government funding, said technology must restrict and monitor online activity, block or filter inappropriate images from Internet-connected Introduction computers, and (for schools) provide reasonable public notice At the turn of the century, Congress passed the Children’s and education on internet safety. Internet Protection Act (CIPA) into United States law. Five years after the world wide web went mainstream, the legislation was enacted to address and restrict access to offensive content over CIPA demands a lot from school the Internet from school and library computers. Now regulated by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), CIPA imposes and library administrators, in certain requirements on any school or library that receives federal addition to any technology funding or subsidies, such as the popular E-Rate program, which provides discounted internet access to qualifying schools and they choose to help certify and libraries. Here’s what interested parties need to know. enforce the law. Understanding requirements A compelling response According to CIPA, schools and libraries may not receive discounts offered by E-Rate or any other public-funding programs With an online user review rating of nearly five perfect stars, unless they certify and enforce an Internet Safety Policy (ISP) with Barracuda CloudGen Firewall is the ideal way for schools and the appropriate technology measures. In short, CIPA demands libraries to enforce CIPA policies both quickly and affordably. that said ISPs must block or filter all access to pictures that are When used in combination with the Barracuda Email Security obscene, pornographic, or harmful to minors. Gateway, Barracuda Networks can help with CIPA compliance in nearly all facets of your organization. On top of that, schools are subject to two additional certification requirements: 1) their Internet safety policies must monitor and log the online activity of minors; and 2) as required by the Protecting Children in the 21st Century Act, schools must instruct minors about appropriate online behavior, including interacting with other individuals over email, on social networking websites, in chat rooms, and cyberbullying awareness and response. Barracuda Networks • WHITE PAPER • How Schools and Libraries Can Get CIPA Compliance Help NETWORK AND APP SECURITY Barracuda Barracuda Web Filtering Energize Updates Advanced Threat Protection (cloud or on-box) Advanced persistent threats, Advanced persistent threats, Advanced malware & zero-day exploits Advanced malware & zero-day exploits Malware (AV / IPS) Botnet &Spyware on-box connections Geo IP Control Malware (AV) DoS / DDoS Malware Protection Web Filtering IPS / IDS Barracuda CloudGen Firewall’s Barracuda CloudGen Firewall web security architecture With an online user review overhead while defining and enforcing granular policies across your entire network. rating of nearly five perfect stars, Barracuda CloudGen Firewall Exceeding compliance is the ideal way for schools and Although CIPA compliance is a critical factor for schools and libraries to enforce CIPA policies libraries seeking E-Rate or other federal subsidies, there are other protective tasks schools and libraries must fulfil that are neither both quickly and affordably. required nor regulated—cybersecurity is chief among them. After nearly two decades of experience, Barracuda Networks put all of With over 150,000 customers worldwide, including countless that know-how into its latest CloudGen Firewall to not only satisfy schools and libraries, Barracuda Networks is one of the most CIPA requirements, but to protect your organization both on- trusted tools for CIPA compliance help, E-Rate discounts, and premises and in the cloud. even more importantly, cyber security against spam, spyware, virus, and undesired or otherwise inappropriate content. Thanks to its reputation for both ease of installation and affordability, Although CIPA compliance Barracuda Networks makes an often complex and daunting process seem easy, if not push-button. is a critical factor for schools In short, CloudGen Firewall is a family of physical (on-premises), and libraries seeking E-Rate virtual, and cloud-based appliances that protect and enhance or other federal subsidies, your expanding network infrastructure. This leading firewall includes a comprehensive set of next-generation technologies, there are other protective tasks including Layer 7 application profiling, intrusion prevention, web schools and libraries must fulfil filtering, advanced malware protection, antispam protection, and network access control. that are neither required nor Additionally, CloudGen Firewalls combine highly resilient regulated—cybersecurity is VPN technology with intelligent traffic management and WAN chief among them. optimization capabilities. This lets you reduce line costs, increase overall network availability, improve site-to-site In the multi-device era, network firewalls must do more than connectivity, and ensure uninterrupted access to applications just secure your network. They must also ensure you have (and CIPA compliance support) hosted in the cloud. And uninterrupted network availability and access to cloud-hosted centralized management helps you reduce administrative applications, such as Google apps, Dropbox, Adobe Creative Barracuda Networks • WHITE PAPER • How Schools and Libraries Can Get CIPA Compliance Help NETWORK AND APP SECURITY Cloud, and popular social media platforms. In addition to into online activity—broken down by individual users and schools and libraries, CloudGen Firewalls are ideal for multi-site applications—thereby letting administrators create and enforce organizations, managed service providers, and anyone else with effective Internet content and access policies. Web filter complex or otherwise dispersed networks. functionality with Barracuda CloudGen Firewalls protects user productivity, blocks malware downloads and other web-based Why? Cloud protection against advanced threats and zero-hour threats, helps you meet compliance standards by blocking attacks is a big deal. So is affordable cybersecurity, secure access to inappropriate websites and servers, and provides an SD-WAN, anytime application access, remote access for off- additional layer of security alongside your network control. network users, interoperability between public and hybrid cloud environments, and best-in-class network controls and monitoring. • Safe search enforcement. Many search engines have a safe search setting to filter out adult results such as inappropriate images and videos. On Barracuda CloudGen Firewalls What’s included customers can easily activate Safe Search Enforcement so that In addition to CIPA compliance support and best-in-class the firewall will enforce safe search settings for all common cybersecurity, CloudGen Firewall offers both a breadth and depth search providers such as Google, Yahoo, and Bing, and even of features. Namely: within YouTube. Unsupported search engines can then be easily blocked. • Advanced threat protection. CloudGen Firewall uses Barracuda’s next-generation sandbox technology to catch • Google accounts enforcement. In some cases, users with persistent threats, zero-day malware, and all other hacks their own Google Apps account may be able to circumvent designed to evade detection. This is achieved through multiple Safe Search enforcement settings by logging in from their datacenters in the Americas, mainland Europe, and the UK workstation with their own Google Apps account. To prevent and tens of thousands of continuously updated CloudGen this, all Barracuda CloudGen Firewalls enforce and limit Google Firewalls, Email Security Gateways, Web Security Gateways, Apps logins to predefined Apps accounts that were previously and Barracuda Essentials. created by the administrator. • Customizable, on-demand analysis reports. To keep you • Mail security gateway. Mail is still one of the most common informed, CloudGen Firewall provides full insight and details on ways of spreading malware. Thankfully, CloudGen Firewalls malicious activities, file behavior, system-registry entries, and include all the necessary means to prevent incoming email evasion and obfuscation techniques. This also enables network from infecting corporate mail servers. CloudGen Firewall activities such as establishing