Millington Community Schools Switches to OpenDNS for All Web Content Filtering Needs, Finds OpenDNS Superior to Other Filtering Tools
Michigan school district joins the 20,000 schools already using OpenDNS to keep students, staff safe online
Jan 27, 2009 — San Francisco -- OpenDNS, the award-winning service that makes the Internet safer, faster, smarter and more reliable, today announced Millington Community Schools, a kindergarten through twelfth-grade school district in Michigan, has switched to OpenDNS to filter unsafe and inappropriate content and keep students and staff safe online. OpenDNS, the world's largest and fastest-growing DNS provider, is today used by more than 20,000 schools, including some of the nation’s largest school districts.
"There were two major considerations that made us choose OpenDNS. First, it is fast and easy to set up. From start to finish we were up and running with OpenDNS in fewer than 20 minutes," said Millington Community Schools Technology Director Matthew Lambertson. "Second, the service is free. You simply can't beat that price. OpenDNS has done a very nice job for us at Millington Community Schools -- we've been completely happy with the service and haven't had a single incident since making the switch six months ago."
Faced with IT budget cuts, schools and school districts across the country are switching to OpenDNS after finding the free solution better meets their needs than pricy appliance-based filtering systems. OpenDNS, which works in the cloud and requires no hardware to purchase, deploy and maintain, helps schools easily achieve the necessary Children's Internet Protection Act (CIPA) compliance to become eligible for government IT aid by providing more than 50 categories of content for Web filtering, including industry-leading anti-phishing. The IT budget freed up by switching to OpenDNS is often applied to much needed education technology purchases, which are otherwise unaffordable.
To date, OpenDNS has provided Millington Community Schools with 100 percent DNS uptime, making its network overall more reliable and freeing students and faculty of intermittent Internet outages. Further, OpenDNS provides flexibility in filtering, allowing district technologists to block access to Web content on a per-school basis, and without downloading software on individual computers.
About OpenDNS
OpenDNS is the leading provider of free security and infrastructure services that make the Internet safer through integrated Web content filtering, anti-phishing and DNS. OpenDNS services enable consumers and network administrators to secure their networks from online threats, reduce costs and enforce Internet-use policies. OpenDNS is used today by millions of users and organizations around the world. For more information about OpenDNS, please visit: www.opendns.com
"There were two major considerations that made us choose OpenDNS. First, it is fast and easy to set up. From start to finish we were up and running with OpenDNS in fewer than 20 minutes," said Millington Community Schools Technology Director Matthew Lambertson. "Second, the service is free. You simply can't beat that price. OpenDNS has done a very nice job for us at Millington Community Schools -- we've been completely happy with the service and haven't had a single incident since making the switch six months ago."
Faced with IT budget cuts, schools and school districts across the country are switching to OpenDNS after finding the free solution better meets their needs than pricy appliance-based filtering systems. OpenDNS, which works in the cloud and requires no hardware to purchase, deploy and maintain, helps schools easily achieve the necessary Children's Internet Protection Act (CIPA) compliance to become eligible for government IT aid by providing more than 50 categories of content for Web filtering, including industry-leading anti-phishing. The IT budget freed up by switching to OpenDNS is often applied to much needed education technology purchases, which are otherwise unaffordable.
To date, OpenDNS has provided Millington Community Schools with 100 percent DNS uptime, making its network overall more reliable and freeing students and faculty of intermittent Internet outages. Further, OpenDNS provides flexibility in filtering, allowing district technologists to block access to Web content on a per-school basis, and without downloading software on individual computers.
About OpenDNS
OpenDNS is the leading provider of free security and infrastructure services that make the Internet safer through integrated Web content filtering, anti-phishing and DNS. OpenDNS services enable consumers and network administrators to secure their networks from online threats, reduce costs and enforce Internet-use policies. OpenDNS is used today by millions of users and organizations around the world. For more information about OpenDNS, please visit: www.opendns.com
