Education

Content Filtering And Malware Protection For Education

Affordable DNS protection for a single campus, university, or entire district.

"At Westside Neighborhood School we want to help our students develop safe and responsible internet research skills. ScoutDNS gives us peace of mind while also allowing us to customize our filters via a very flexible and intuitive user interface. We are very happy with the service."

Brad Wright

Westside Neighborhood School

Key Education Features

ScoutDNS makes it easy to protect staff, students, and guests with an easy to deploy, affordable cloud based filtering solution.

Free 14 days trial

Unlimited Student, Staff, And Guest Devices

CIPA Compliant Policies

Safe Search And Google YouTube Restricted Compatible

Additional Features

Secure all devices and users on your network. Confidently block inappropriate content with our human curated machine learning category engine covering over 200 languages and 99.8% of the known web.

Filter Adult Sites

Manage 67 content categories

Force Safe Search

Network wide Google and Bing restricted search filters image and video search results

YouTube Safe Mode

Supports YouTube Strict and Moderate modes with G Suite support

Application Blocker

Block streaming media, P2P, social networks, web proxy, games, and more

Badware Blocker

Blocks malware, ransomware, and phishing sites

Ad Blocker

Stop hidden malware and objectionable content inside embedded ads

Cloud Hosted Platform

Resilient easy to deploy with automatic updates to latest threats

Powerful Reporting

Searchable logs, Category, TLD, and Record Type aggregate views, full message inspection

Custom Allow/Blocklist

Create and manage multiple object based custom lists

Education Pricing

Pricing is based on total student enrollment plus staff users. All pricing includes unlimited guest user devices. There is a $300 student minimum per campus.

EDU Plus

Advanced deployment options with LAN relay support

$2.50 per seat / year

$300 annual minimum

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Includes

Global Anycast
Content Filtering
Threat Filtering
Application Filtering

EDU 360

Full platform with endpoint clients and identity policies

$4.00 per seat / year

$480 annual minimum

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Everything in EDU Plus, plus

Windows/MacOS Client
Active Directory Based Policies
Entra ID Based Policies
Machine Based Policies

Compare all features

Features	EDU Plus EDU Plus	EDU 360 EDU 360
Global Anycast
Content Filtering
Threat Filtering
Application Filtering
Encrypted DNS DNS over HTTPS (DoH) and DNS over TLS (DoT) support for encrypted DNS queries
Custom Allow/Block Lists Create and manage custom domain allow and block lists
TLD Control Block or allow entire top-level domains (.xyz, .top, etc.)
Query Logs Searchable DNS query logs with 30 days of history
Custom Block Pages
Entra ID SSO Login
WAN Deployment Deploy using your network WAN IP address
LAN Relay Deployment Deploy using our DNS Relay agent for LAN-based filtering
Windows/MacOS Client	—
Active Directory Based Policies Apply different policies based on Active Directory groups	—
Entra ID Based Policies Apply different policies based on Microsoft Entra ID (Azure AD) groups	—
Machine Based Policies	—
Support

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Our Solutions

Content Filtering

AI-powered web filtering with 67 categories and safe search enforcement.

Threat Protection

Block malware, ransomware, phishing, and zero-day threats at the DNS layer.

Device Protection

Protect devices anywhere with WAN forwarding, cloud-managed relays, and roaming clients.

Network Visibility

30-day searchable DNS logs with drill-down analytics and full RDATA inspection.

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