Case Study: Yorkland School achieves proactive student protection and bandwidth control with ContentWatch ContentProtect

Principal uses the contentprotect appliance to proactively protect students and school network

Yorkland School, a Christian high school of 350 students near Toronto, needed a proactive way to protect students and the school network from harmful or distracting Internet content. Principal Kevin Ko chose ContentWatch’s ContentProtect Security Appliance after comparing options, citing its flexible features and customizability to meet the school’s needs.

ContentWatch’s ContentProtect appliance combined content filtering, bandwidth and application shaping, IM management, and anti-malware into a single, plug-and-play device (installed in about 30 minutes). The appliance let Ko block pop-ups, viruses, instant messaging and time‑wasting sites, identify and stop peer‑to‑peer traffic that was causing bandwidth collapse around 4 p.m., and use real‑time monitoring and reports to improve classroom productivity and network stability—results Ko says have led him to recommend ContentWatch to other schools.

Yorkland School

Kevin Ko

Principal