The Pickens County School District in South Carolina was using an on-premise web filtering solution that required manual blocking of websites and applications. They switched to Securly's cloud-based solution to filter content across any device for their 16,500 students. Securly eliminated bandwidth bottlenecks and allowed school staff to offload web filter administration duties. Through Securly's reporting, an attempted suicide was stopped after alarming posts on social media were found, saving a student's life.

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Business Challenge
Transferring from clunky hardware to a unified,
easy-to-use web interface provided by Securly
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Regular Reporting Analysis:
Stop self-harm before it happens.
Cloud-based: easier to
distribute information and
seamless operation.
Delivers web filtering to any
device and any location.
Larger scale bandwidth housing
all its software applications that’s
compatible to their computers,
laptops and tablets.
Unified, easy-to-use interface
Business Impact
Customer Name:
Pickens County School District
Location: South Carolina
Pickens County Schools
switches to cloud-based web
filtering solution to keep
16,500 students safe online.
Any device. Anywhere. Secure.
Pickens County is comprised of 24 schools, which include
14 elementary schools, five middle schools, and four high schools.
The district houses over 16,500 students and 1,300 staff. Before
Securly, these schools were using a Palo Alto Networks firewall, which
required them to manually block websites and applications from
school-owned devices such as computers, laptops, and tablets.
Securly’s cloud-based IT solution allowed Pickens county schools
to scale to higher bandwidth with ease by eliminating the appliance
web filter bottleneck. Barbara Nesbitt, Director of Instructional Tech,
along with her 15 staff oversee and manage the entire IT setup.
Paul White, Systems Administrator, and Andy Coleman, Network
Specialist, are both responsible for deploying software, image
handling, and server buildup. Pickens has also eliminated the IT
bottleneck from tasks such as pulling reports of student activity by
offloading them to school level staff.
Securly’s cloud-based solution
allowed Pickens county
schools to eliminate bandwidth
bottlenecks and offload web
filter administration to
school-level staff.
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Reporting students’
online activities
Monitoring students’ online
activities helped the schools
find alarming posts, directly
saving lives and highlighting
safety across the student
body.
Social media alerts to inform school authorities
about incidents of self-harm and bullying
Through Securly’s reporting and analysis, an attempted
suicide was immediately stopped. Monitoring students’ online
activities helped the schools find alarming posts, including a
status message on Facebook by a student contemplating
suicide. The principal and parents of the child were notified
right away. This report saved a life and the community is
thankful for Securly’s proactive nature and reassurance that
the school makes the effort to prioritize the safety of the
students. “To be able to catch clues on social media that
would enable administrators and teachers to work with
parents is absolutely worth everything to us as a community,”
Nesbitt adds.
Securly is a leading provider of cloud-based web filtering
for schools and parental controls for homes. For more
information, visit www.securly.com.
Securly’s Parent Portal drives parent
engagement with 1:1 program.
— Andy Coleman,
Network Specialist
“Being cloud-based
makes it much
easier to distribute
the information to
people who need it
the most. They are
not bogged down
with the details of
access rights.”