Securly vs. Alternatives
Keep your students safe, secure and productive with Securly’s comprehensive platform of student safety, wellness and engagement tools. From our cloud-based web filter designed for UK schools and our teacher-friendly classroom management software, to the most comprehensive student wellness tools for student support teams, no other solution comes close to what the Securly platform has to offer.
Product
Securly
Smoothwall
LightspeedSystems
Netsweeper
True cloud for all devices; no agents or appliance required
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Requires software agents per managed device type and an appliance for
unmanaged
devices.
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Requires software agents per managed device type and an appliance for
unmanaged
devices.
Filters all device types (Chromebooks, iPads, Macs, PCs)
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Limited coverage for iOS devices.
Supports BYOD, guest network and unmanaged devices
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Requires an appliance to cover BYOD, guest network and unmanaged
devices.
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Requires an appliance to cover BYOD, guest network and unmanaged
devices.
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Requires an appliance to cover BYOD, guest network and unmanaged
devices.
Seamless SSO
Easy to set up
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Individual agent deployments required for each platform.
Scalable
Unlimited data retention
User-level reporting on iOS devices with no login requirements
Automatically scans and categorises new sites
YouTube controls
Time-based policies
Can move organisational units (OUs) at the policy level
Create custom groups for set periods of time
Live activity feed and audit trail
SSL decryption
AI analysis and detection of nudity, bullying, self-harm,
suicide and violence
Real-time notification of flagged activities
Cross-platform and device support (Chromebooks, iPads, Mac,
Windows, Google Drive, Office 365)
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Flagged activity notifications only work on Chrome and require customers to
set their own keywords.
Scans email at a server level for signs of bullying, self-harm
and violence
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Lightspeed only scans at a browser level rather than at server level, which
can lead to coverage gaps on unmanaged devices.
Scans Docs and comments for signs of bullying, self-harm and
violence
Scans social media
Nuanced analysis of student activity, including history
Sentiment analysis and / or natural language processing (NLP)
analysis
Delegated alerts
Nudity detection in Drive and email attachments
Nudity quarantine and recall
Automatic recall of threatening emails
Video scanning
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Coming soon.
Chat scanning
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Google Chat through the Extension.
Confidence scores
Wellness levels for each student
Proactive wellness intervention
Proactive bullying intervention
Case management
Human-assisted AI risk assessment
N/A
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Does not offer human monitoring of flagged activities.
N/A
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Does not offer human monitoring of flagged activities.
Analyst review prioritised by AI-assisted wellness levels
N/A
N/A
24/7 coverage
N/A
N/A
Highly trained student safety specialists
N/A
N/A
Student privacy protocols
N/A
N/A
Parents and caregivers can set their own filtering rules for school
devices when they are at home
N/A
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Does not offer a parent/caregiver app.
N/A
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Does not offer a parent/caregiver app.
Parents and caregivers can see a live activity feed of their
child's school device
N/A
N/A
Schools have full control over what parents and caregivers can
and cannot do
N/A
N/A
Parents and caregivers able to "pause the internet" on school
devices when they are at home
N/A
N/A
Parents and caregivers receive notifications about flagged
activities detected on their child's school device
N/A
N/A
Parents and caregivers receive a weekly email report
N/A
Remotely push apps to devices by OU
N/A
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Does not offer an MDM product.
N/A
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Does not offer an MDM product.
Remotely revoke app access to devices by OU
N/A
N/A
Windows support
N/A
N/A
Locate lost or stolen Chromebooks
N/A
N/A
Teachers can view individual student's screens and monitor
online activity
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Previously Smoothwall Classroom Manager - now rebranded Linewize
Classwize
N/A
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Does not offer a classroom management product.
Teachers can chat one-on-one with students
N/A
Teachers can lock student devices to a website
N/A
Teachers can lock student screens
N/A
Teachers can see student browsing history
N/A
Tab control
N/A
Custom block lists
N/A
View usage data for student apps / websites to inform purchase
and renewal decisions
N/A
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Does not offer an analytics product.
N/A
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Does not offer an analytics product.
