SiteCoach [Plug-In] Overview

Part of the SiteKiosk Plus and Payment Bundle and the school and library package

Content filter/Parental control tool
Automatic free updates of the filtering lists performed in the background
Real-time site filtering
Scanning of URLs and words

SiteCoach is a content filtering/parental control tool which uses special proxy technology to block access to web sites containing content that is deemed harmful, indecent, offensive, pornographic or otherwise inappropriate.

Why you should deploy SiteCoach!

In most countries there are laws that prohibit content providers from making certain content public. These laws do not only apply to magazines and videos, but also material available on the Internet and that can be accessed from a public terminal.

Examples of prohibited content:
The use of symbols of unconstitutional organizations
(e.g. the Swastika)
Sedition
The denial of the Holocaust
The glorification of violence (this usually refers to the depiction of acts of extreme cruelty against human beings)
Pornography characterized by acts of violence or involving children or animals

We feel obliged to inform you that it may be prohibited by law to import (download), manufacture, purchase, advertise, distribute or provide access to the content described above. Any violations of these laws are subject to prosecution!

This is a good reason to use the SiteCoach [Plug-In] (part of the Plus and Payment Bundle as well as of the school and library license).

How SiteCoach works

SiteCoach is basically a proxy server that scans and, if necessary, block web sites in real time (zero-time filtering) if any suspicious content is found. Your IE proxy settings will remain valid.

We have compiled a Forbidden list containing over 150,000 categorized domains that comes with the product. Entries on this list will automatically be blocked. Example: http://www.playboy.com
Several thousand "clean" domains are included on an Allowed list the content of which will automatically be considered unharmful. This list contains, for example, the web sites of all German cities, which will not be blocked even if "suspicious" content were detected.
You can, of course, manually expand both of these two lists.
We maintain these lists and provide free updates over the Internet. The list will be updated as soon as your terminal has established an online connection. Note: these lists will only be maintained for SiteKiosk 5.0 and newer versions. If you need updated SiteCoach lists please upgrade to at least SiteKiosk 5.0.
A complex list of words containing regular expressions will optionally be used to scan web sites missing on the list for forbidden expressions:
URL - e.g. http://www.sex*.*/
Document Title - e.g. <title>sex etc.</title>
Meta tags - e.g. keywords: sex, etc.
Body - will scan the body for forbidden expressions
Since the scanning process is always performed while the page is being loaded rather than after the page has already been opened by the browser, the user will not notice any delay in loading the page.
Automatic updates for the filtering lists are available for free download, i.e. as soon as there are new lists available on our servers, the terminals will automatically download and integrate these lists.