Education
The student online safety software schools actually like using
Built for K–12 school networks, Fastvue delivers clear, real-time visibility into student online activity.
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The Problem
Students face constant online risks, from self-harm, extremism, and explicit content to cyberbullying, toxic media, and AI deepfakes. Leading firewalls track security threats, not student behavior, leaving schools without the visibility or evidence to spot issues early and respond appropriately.
The Solution
Fastvue works with the firewall you already trust, transforming complex network data into actionable online safety insights. Reports and real-time alerts give teachers, DSLs, and pastoral care teams instant visibility into students' internet usage. IT teams avoid time-consuming investigations of firewall logs, and leadership can rely on accurate monitoring aligned with safeguarding legislation.
Safeguard students online
Fastvue alerts surface real-time risk linked to self-harm, suicide, bullying, violence, and extremism, notifying the right people at the right time, allowing you to meet your duty of care obligations and align with relevant legislation such as KCSiE, FERPA, CIPA, and online safety requirements. Schools supported by Fastvue can check in with students the same day concerns arise, and involve the right people sooner, before situations escalate.
Improve digital citizenship
Fastvue gives schools visibility into how students engage across websites and online resources within the school network, enabling leaders to guide responsible technology use and prepare students for the real world. Digital citizenship becomes practical, evidence-based, and focused on building judgment, accountability, and safe online behavior.
Reduce the IT burden
Fastvue transforms raw network data into structured, human-readable reports designed for safeguarding and wellbeing teams. Fastvue's alerts and reports cut out the noise, so IT isn’t chasing false positives or digging into raw logs to help explain what a student 'really' did online, thanks to built-in tools like Site Clean. All monitoring data stays in your environment (on-premises or private cloud), giving you maximum privacy and control while enabling faster investigations and meeting data protection standards.
What our customers say
Fastvue Reporter's flexible alert system helped us enhance online safeguarding and meet KCSIE requirements in our complex full-boarding BYOD environment, by providing our safeguarding leads with immediate visibility into unsafe online behaviour. Very few enterprise software applications ‘just work out of the box', but thankfully, Fastvue is one of them!
Having Fastvue handle the reporting piece was an absolute god-send. It meant we were able to choose a best of breed security solution without compromising on our pastoral care reporting.
We were able to identify a particular issue [with a student] early, meaning we could provide support and help prevent the situation from becoming much worse. If we hadn’t had Fastvue this could have gone on a lot longer before we would have noticed and things could have been much worse
Get the visibility you've been missing
Fastvue Reporter allows you to identify internet usage issues as they happen. You get a true overview of what’s really going on online, while helping to keep your students, staff, and network safe.
Critical alerts on student well-being
Real-time student internet monitoring lets you send time-sensitive alerts, such as students searching for suicide or self-harm-related topics, directly to safeguarding staff.
Cohort reports
Send scheduled student web usage reports to Heads of Year that detail their cohort's suspicious searches, unacceptable websites, YouTube videos watched and more.
Activity timeline reports
Comprehensively monitor student internet usage to see exactly when and for how long students have engaged with specific online content — such as objectionable videos and websites.
Assess digital citizenship
Can your students navigate their digital environment safely? Easily assess a student's digital citizenship by viewing their productive and acceptable content alongside unproductive and unacceptable content.
Keywords
Fastvue's extensive, customizable, and continuously updated keyword database flags suspicious activity related to suicide and self-harm, extremism and radicalization, racism, drugs, pornography, and profanity, without the false positives.
YouTube
Clever keyword matching on YouTube titles lets you easily discover videos that may be inappropriate in your organization. See who spent time watching them, and how long.
Site Clean
Fastvue's unique Site Clean technology lets you see exactly what websites are being browsed, without advertising, ugly content delivery networks, or other unnecessary noise cluttering the reports. Learn more.
IT, network and security reports
Designed for busy IT teams, these reports highlight bandwidth issues, threats detected, summarize VPN activity, and make it easy to find firewall policies responsible for blocking or allowing traffic.
Your school. Your data.
Fastvue Reporter is self-hosted in your own private cloud or on-premises. We never see your sensitive internet or network traffic data.
We're a proud partner of the Internet Watch Foundation
Stories that motivate our work
EDUCATION CASE STUDY
Case Study: Gardener Schools Group
New KCSiE guidelines mandate robust internet monitoring in schools. Gardener Schools Group chose Fastvue to meet these guidelines, offering complete coverage, low TCO, ease of use, and detailed reports accessible to all.
EDUCATION CASE STUDY
Case Study: Hale School
We're receiving real-time alerts on self-harm searches, adult and profanity, extremism and drugs. The self-harm alert in particular is very important that it gets to the key pastoral staff in a timely manner.
EDUCATION CASE STUDY
Case Study: Stephen Perse Foundation
The Stephen Perse Foundation adopted Fastvue to meet the 2023 KCSiE guidelines, leveraging its seamless firewall integration and user-friendly interface to ensure a safe online learning environment in their schools.
EDUCATION CASE STUDY
Case Study: Duncraig Senior High School
The main challenge our school had was the lack of visibility over our internet traffic. With over 1500 students having relatively open access to the internet, it was scary having no idea what students were doing online.
EDUCATION CASE STUDY
Case Study: Stonyhurst College
Our operating systems were inspected by an independent school inspectorate and they were completely blown away by the reporting data in place, incorporating all the lists required to comply with the Government’s KCSiE guidance.
EDUCATION CASE STUDY
Case Study: Islamic College of Brisbane
We receive alerts for a variety of use cases at different severity levels. These range from very serious alerts that may indicate issues with student mental health, through to more information alerts such as large downloads.
Get started in 3 easy steps
Install Fastvue Reporter
Install Fastvue Reporter on a server in your network or private cloud*.
Connect your firewall
Send log data from your firewall to the Fastvue server (usually via syslog) - [see available firewalls](/reporter-overview#firewall-brands "firewall brands").
Enjoy better visibility
Get a better, more comprehensive view of your internet and network usage with easy-to-use reporting and real-time alerts.
* Available as Windows Server software or a Docker image.
Take Fastvue Reporter for a test drive
Download our FREE 14-day trial, or schedule a demo and we'll show you how it works.