NetBox Blue has launched its Internet Access Control System (IACS), designed specifically for the education sector, to resellers.

The Australian-owned company's SecurED product offers firewall, spam filtering and virus protection as well as patented Web Filtering and Internet Quota Management.

John Fison, chairman at NetBox Blue told CRN that the product will be available through its network of business partners across Australia for the education sector.

“Schools across Australia already rely on NetBox Blue for their internet and email security,” he said.

“Management and the release of NetBox Blue SecurED is further commitment to the sector.”

According to Fison it has several education specific partners, such as Datacom in Queensland, to push the product through.

“We offer our business partners margins (typically 30 percent plus) and they also generate services revenues and annuity based revenues from associated support and consulting services.”

He claimed the product enables [the education market] to fulfill their duty of care by controlling web browsing whilst also delivering a host of other specific features for that market.

“ICT administrators in schools are being overwhelmed by the management overhead of disparate solutions from different providers,” he said.

"[They] also have to deal with the rising numbers of threats and challenges that they have to manage for the school.”