Case Study: School District of Lee County achieves scalable SSL web filtering with ContentKeeper Technologies

ContentKeeper Meets Lee County’s Need for a Fast, Reliable, Highly Scalable Web Filter

The School District of Lee County in Florida, a large education district serving 85,000 students, needed a scalable web filtering solution that could handle heavy network traffic and decrypt SSL at very high speeds without slowing down the network. Its existing filter could not keep up, and it lacked the granular control needed to manage social media, proxy sites, and other web content. ContentKeeper Technologies provided the web filtering platform used to address these issues.

ContentKeeper Technologies was selected after peer recommendations and a district pilot showed strong performance in passive and active modes. The solution handled SSL decryption reliably at scale, improved visibility into student web activity, and gave teachers and administrators finer control over content, including allowing legitimate YouTube content while blocking inappropriate material. The district reported no network performance problems during rollout and significantly better filtering of proxy sites and other evasive traffic.

School District of Lee County

Dwayne Alton

Executive Director of Infrastructure Services