CyberPatrol In the News

October, 2010

Best Apps and Products to Prevent CyberBullying

Parents

The average American teen spends up to seven hours a day in contact with others on electronic devices, and a recent survey by AVG Technologies found that almost one in six 6- to 9-year-olds and one in five 8- to 9-year-olds have experienced what parents consider objectionable or aggressive behavior online. Complete Story

July, 2010

25 Coolest Emerging Vendors For 2010

ChannelWeb

...From the nearly 200 companies that are part of CRN's 2010 Emerging Vendors list, here are 25 that caught our fancy because they are doing something cool... After

breaking away from Websense in 2008, CyberPatrol is focusing its efforts largely on the SMB, as well as libraries and the education verticals, with products specifically targeting smaller organizations... Complete Story

March 10, 2010

Family Works: Parent-approved Products

Fox News-Boston

Parent Tested Parent Approved Featured on Fox 25 Boston with Melissa Cassera. Award winning parent tested parent approved products include the Europro Ninja, The Shark Portable steam pocket system, Stonzwear, Breathable Baby, Cyberpatrol, Corel Painter and Corel Digital Studio and Disney Toontown... Complete Story

February 1, 2010

Your Kids and Your PCs: Tips for Peaceful Coexistence

The Industry Standard

Having kids is a blessing. But having kids mess with your PC can be, well, a curse. If they're little, you've got to worry about things like Playdough in the DVD drive, spilled milk on the keyboard and jam on the mouse. If they're older, your worries get more complex: How to keep them from reading and maybe even deleting your files, messing up system settings-and of course, how to regulate their Web surfing... Complete Story

June 17, 2009

CyberPatrol Upgrades SiteSURV Cloud Web Filtering Solution for SMB

DarkReading

Harrisburg, PA " June 16, 2009 " CyberPatrol LLC, a leading developer of web filtering solutions for families, educators and business, today announced SiteSURV 4.0, the latest version of its customizable Cloud Managed Service specifically designed and priced for small and medium business (SMBs).

The growing ranks of SiteSURV customers have found that low cost Web filtering in the cloud can cut costs directly and indirectly, in the form of higher employee productivity and lower maintenance costs. SiteSURV installs in minutes, requires no hardware, is customizable through an online control panel and comes with a 30-day money back guarantee.

June 17, 2009

SiteSURV 4.0 web filtering for smbs

CIOL

HARRISBURG, US: CyberPatrol LLC, a leading developer of web filtering solutions for families, educators and business, has announced SiteSURV 4.0, the latest version of its customizable Cloud Managed Service specifically designed and priced for small and medium businesses (SMBs).

The growing ranks of SiteSURV customers have found that low cost Web filtering in the cloud can cut costs directly and indirectly, in the form of higher employee productivity and lower maintenance costs. SiteSURV installs in minutes, requires no hardware, is customizable through an online control panel and comes with a 30-day money back guarantee.

June 3, 2009

CyberPatrol Carves its Niche In the SMB

Channel Web

The Lowdown: CyberPatrol executives will tell you that the company's biggest strength its targeting markets that other Web filtering vendors have largely ignored.

The company initially catered to the consumer market with parental control software after breaking away from Websense in February 2008. Now CyberPatrol is focusing its efforts largely on the SMB, as well as libraries and the education vertical, with products specifically geared for businesses with limited resources and IT staff. Historically, a lot of the Web filtering products have focused on enterprises that have stringent regulatory compliance needs and complex acceptable use policies, executives say.

"For businesses of 10 or 20, the current [competitive] offerings aren't really an option for them," said Barb Rose, vice president of marketing at CyberPatrol.

The company has gained ground in the SMB with its cloud-based SiteSurv Web filtering service, and SiteSurv Plus, its network-based Web filter. Web sites are compared to CyberPatrol's continually updated database of good and bad URLs, along with any additional Web sites the customer chooses to block. "It's very easy to install and very cost effective," Rose said. "People get this thing up and running in 15 minutes and we manage all the updates."

June 16, 2009

Atlanta Private School Implements Filtering Technology

TheJournal.com

The Ron Clark Academy of Atlanta, GA, has chosen the SiteSurv 3.5 managed service for its on-campus Web filtering and security. The service, from CyberPatrol, uses an extensive category-based filtering process that is operated via a Web control panel.

Considered a "cloud" service because it is managed and all of its data is stored externally, SiteSurv 3.5 is designed to be accessible to lay users and relatively inexpensive. Managed service provider Definition 6 oversaw deployment of the service at the school and will manage its use.

June 8, 2009

Keeping kids safe from sex predators

NBCAugusta.com

AIKEN, S.C. - Aiken County deputies have arrested a man they say drove down from Charlotte to have sex with a 12-year-old. They say Sampson Nimmo already met with the 12-year-old girl three times. The girl's mother alerted investigators after she learned about the sexual encounters. "This is one of the worst case scenarios. The only good thing is this individual won't be doing it again," said Aiken County Captain Troy Elwell. He started investigating cyber crimes nearly a decade ago.

June 8, 2009

40% Of "Work" At Work Is Not Work: What Can You Do To Boost Your Employee's Online Productivity

Smallbiztechnology.com

In a recent press release, Cyberpatrol, a company specializing in web site monitoring and blocking software writes While IDC estimates that between 30% and 40% of all time spent online at work is not work related, many SMBs still remain unaware of not just the security threats that can result from non-work related employee activity on the Internet, but the fact that business owners can be held liable for what their employees are doing online on work computers. The level of security that smaller organizations have in place is no longer enough, and SMBs have become the number one target for cyber criminals.

June 2, 2009

Microsoft's New Search Engine Puts Porn in Motion

Fox News

Your kids may get a bang out of Bing — and that's not a good thing, Internet safety experts warned on Monday. Bing, Microsoft's new search engine (www.bing.com), went live in the U.S. this weekend, aiming to challenge and possibly unseat industry titan Google. But bloggers and Internet safety experts quickly discovered that one of Bing's "features" is that it takes only a few clicks for anyone — of any age — to view explicit pornographic videos without even leaving the search engine.

June 2, 2009

Safeguard Your Child From Internet Pornography

Oneindia

Research states that nearly 60-80 percent of children access pornography through Internet. To keep your child away from the harm of Internet pornography follow these guidelines to draw a line of safety and a strict NO to access to anything that is absurd to the child's imagination and thinking.

May 24, 2009

Device lets you lock up the Internet to keep kids safe

Citizen-Times.com

As parents with young children will tell you, most kids either already have their own computer or want one. But an unmonitored computer connected to the Internet can be a dangerous thing. It all centers around control. As a parent, it's your responsibility to monitor what your kids are doing, and you're going to need some help.With the television, there are mechanisms available to parents to control what programs kids watch, and most cable and satellite services provide ample parental control services.

March 30, 2009

Cybercriminals Take Aim at Small Business

Certification Magazine

As larger enterprises have stepped up IT security spending and compliance efforts, cyberfiends increasingly are shifting their sights to small- and medium-sized businesses. "Like many other criminals, cybercriminals tend to go for the low-hanging fruit," said Tori Case, vice president of product management at CyberPatrol. "The larger enterprises know what they need to do to protect themselves. The opportunity for criminals there aren't as easy as they once were, so they're shifting their sights downwards to smaller businesses."

February 2009

UT Elementary Deploys Web Filtering

T.H.E. Journal

The University of Texas Elementary School in Austin, a university-sponsored preK-5 charter school, is deploying Web filtering software to help keep students from accessing Internet content administrators consider inappropriate for their school's setting.

The school is using CyberPatrol's SiteSURVplus, a server-based solution that's coupled with a database of some 220 million sites that it blacklists. HTTP requests are routed through SiteSURVplus, which is installed on a system on the LAN, and then forwarded on to the DNS. Sites are blocked or allowed based on parameters set by the school.

February 2009

CyberPatrol Releases Free Web-Surfing Safety Toolkit

T.H.E. Journal

CyberPatrol, a company that sells parental controls and Web filtering technologies, announced a free online Web-surfing safety assessment toolkit. The toolkit is intended to help parents and educators review online surfing habits and determine what safety measures should be implemented.

February 12, 2009

CyberPatrol offers free toolkit to promote safer Internet browsing

Government Security News

Cyber security - For those cyber security threats that affect the home, rather than the homeland, Enola, PA-based CyberPatrol LLC, a provider of parental controls and Web filtering technologies, is offering CyberPatrol Toolkit.

February 6, 2009

MySpace evicts 90,000 sex offenders from site

Examiner.com

Yes, you read that right. Ninety-thousand sex offenders were lurking on MySpace until the company recently booted them out, the AP reports. As a parent, this news story just sent my anxiety into overdrive, and I know I'm not alone in that.

January 2009

Lennie Myers, VP of Business Development Talks with Jessica Foust at CES 2009

TopTenREVIEWS

Listen to Lennie Myers as he is interviewed by Jessica Foust with TopTenREVIEWS at the 2009 International CES Show. CyberPatrol has released a free online assessment tool so parents and businesses can quickly and easily scan a PC to check for risky web surfing habits. Certain sites may be considered inappropriate because of their content while others can pose a threat because of viruses, spyware and phishing. Threat Detector gives parents a very quick and easy way to assess the state of their family’s computers.

January 28, 2009

Software Security Solutions Introduces CyberPatrol Web Site Filtering Products and Services

PR Newswire

Software Security Solutions, Inc. (SSS), a technology firm specializing in security solutions for home users and small to medium-sized businesses (SMBs), is offering the latest in web surfing protection for both families and companies. CyberPatrol blocks access to harmful web sites and URLs. Unfortunately, there are now millions of inappropriate and malicious sites on the worldwide web that can disrupt business operations or be harmful to children and families.

January 11, 2009

Access for all-Everyone should have the Internet I have

The Patriot News

Many technology advocates and policy makers have long pushed for a national program to provide broadband Internet access to everyone in the nation. President-elect Barack Obama has made this his top technology-related goal. A program designed to achieve it could be rolled out this month when Congress presents him with a multibillion dollar economic stimulus bill.