Securly filters out unsafe, harmful, and inappropriate pages on social media sites and blogs creating environment for safe social media and safe blogging. Cloud based web filtering and parental controls that works seamlessly across the schools and homes.

1. Safe Search Engines For Kids
Two years ago, we co-founded Securly after having spent several years building enterprise
security products. The genesis of Securly was when Vinay observed his six year old nephew
accidentally stumble upon an unsafe YouTube video on an iPad. Given our entrepreneurial
interests and backgrounds in security - this was the perfect "opportunity" we were seeking.
We immediately quit our jobs at McAfee and Huawei-Symantec, and built
an OpenDNS+Barracuda combo focused on K-12 needs. School IT admins now enjoyed the
simplicity of a 5-min DNS based deployment and the granularity of full-blown proxy or
appliance vendors. Our invention had found an instant product-market fit as IT admins
latched onto the cloud-based alternative to traditional appliances vision.
However, what started as a purely entrepreneurial pursuit changed into a "double bottom-
line" mission statement the minute we stepped into a school campus where we
saw Securly in action keeping the students focused and safe online - a truly surreal moment
for us. This was at our first customer school here - Milpitas Unified - in the Silicon Valley
area. We wondered if two immigrant engineers with no sales background could dream of
selling to the rest of the United States - especially when schools are known to be hard to
sell to. Driven purely by our mission, we pursued the idea and realized that K-12 was in fact
the best thing that happened to us. We have found IT admins and Educators from schools
across the country, affluent or otherwise underserved, rural and urban, to be extremely
welcoming of EdTech start-ups and are a lot more forgiving than the pure enterprise and
consumer markets we were used to.
In the two years we've been providing our web-filtering product to schools, we've run into a
number of situations wherein schools in underserved communities simply did not have the
resources to afford a good web-filtering solution. We've had IT admins in these schools tell
us that more than half of their meager EdTech budget was often allocated to acquiring a
web-filter. In these situations,
Delivered through the cloud, Securly provides both in-school and take-home filtering
through the same admin console.
Zero-touch filtering of 1:1 take home Chromebooks using a Chrome extension that takes
seconds to deploy. No proxying. No SSL certificates.
Support for any heterogeneous mix of 1:1 devices including iPads, Windows, Macs, and
Android/Nexus tablets.
Securly's cloud based web-filtering solution can be deployed centrally with no need for
hardware based appliances. This saves these schools significant amounts of time and
money.
Before Securly, the only cloud based solutions that charter schools had access to were what
might be described as "domain-blockers." The "all or nothing" approach makes it impossible
to secure domains like Google and YouTube which while being de-facto 21st century
classroom tools, do contain a lot of content that is inappropriate and
distracting. Securly's industry-first "selective proxy" approach gives schools the best of both
worlds - the low-cost and simplicity of a cloud-based solution combined with the
functionality of an appliance.
Securly was the first web-filter to integrate with Google Apps for single sign-on so schools
with a heterogeneous mix of iPads, Windows, Macs, and Chromebooks could get granular
policies per their organizational units. With today's offering, Securly allows IT admins to
safely pilot and secure their 1:1 Chromebook programs, while reserving the ability to
seamlessly expand the filtering to the rest of the district's devices.

2. The Securly for Chromebooks plugin is available immediately by signing up for a free trial
from http://www.securly.com and then visiting the Chrome Web Store or via the Google
Apps Admin Console.
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