Integration with SurfProtect

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A key strength of SurfProtect is its deployment flexibility. Schools can choose from a range of integration methods to suit their network topology and needs.

ExaCube

ExaCube is our flagship filtering solution. Our dedicated on-site filtering appliance has high-performance router and firewall functionalities in order to replace your existing CPE or virtualised network infrastructure with a single, integrated solution. Filtering and interception takes places directly on the device.

  • SurfProtect’s best-in-class filtering is to all devices on your network, including BYOD, agnostic of your connectivity provider.
  • Keep your network’s existing public IP addresses for compatibility with IP-allowlisting services.

Proxies

SurfProtect offers a variety of web proxies with behaviours tailored to different choices in your school IT environment.

Quantum

In Quantum, you have access to the following:

  • Our Active Directory (AD) proxy integrates with data your school’s AD domain controller in order to associate web requests with the user that issued them. With the user and group available, SurfProtect can more precisely chose from your filtering profiles in order to ensure the appropriate filtering rules are applied.
  • Our standard Quantum proxy has the same HTTPS decryption capabilities and related features (like keyword filtering and resource-specific filtering), but doesn’t challenge for authentication.
  • Our No-TLS proxy provides filtering capabilities for devices or services incompatible with HTTPS interception, such as those that implement certificate pinning.

Quantum+

Quantum+'s repertoire builds on Quantum, adding our Captive Portal proxy. This integrates with your imported user data from Active Directory, Google SSO and Entra ID to ensure all of your traffic has a user associated with it for improved precision and accountability.

Customers can also opt to use our PAC solution, enabling access to our Captive Portal proxy from anywhere on the planet. Our hybrid PAC solution allows for seamless switching between our Active Directory and Captive Portal proxies when users leave your school network.

Transparent filtering

Our transparent filtering solutions intercept web requests by placing SurfProtect in your network path - allowing you to filter any device on your network without configuring devices with proxies.

Quantum

Customers that have both Exa connectivity and SurfProtect Quantum are provisioned with transparent filtering by default. Quantum’s transparent filtering feature set is equivalent to the standard Quantum proxy.

Quantum+

Quantum+'s transparent filtering bridges your school’s local network to SurfProtect’s cloud servers, allowing visibility of LAN IP addresses for improved accountability and accuracy in filtering.