Content Filtering

Control What Users Can Access

Reduce wasted time, protect users from inappropriate content, and enforce acceptable use policies across your network. ScoutDNS content filtering gives you complete control over web access with 67 categories, safe search enforcement, and real-time threat protection.

DNS Content Filtering

Content filtering from ScoutDNS is effective, fast, and reliable. We cover 99.9% of the visible web and maintain a 99% accuracy rate on categories with multiple safe modes on search engines and YouTube.

99.9%
Web Coverage
200+
Languages
Multiple
Safe Search Modes
67
Content Categories
16
Application Categories
Google
Workspace Compatible
Centralized cloud management dashboard

Centralized Cloud Based Management

Manage your content and security controls from a single screen whether you have one campus or a thousand. Each campus can have up to four different network and policy settings allowing a high level of control within the same campus.

  • Manage Multiple Locations
  • Create Different Policies By Network
  • Role Based Access
  • Multi-Tenant
  • Object Based Configuration

A.I. Powered Web Content Filtering

Rest easy knowing your locations are protected by one of the largest A.I. powered URL and domain databases available, benefiting from up to 60 million new URL scans daily.

  • Over 12 Billion A.I. and Human Categorized URLs
  • Real-time Domain Scans
  • Millions Of New URLs Categorized Daily
  • 67 Domain Categories
  • Unlimited Custom Policies
AI-powered content filtering dashboard
Scout360 roaming client protection

Anywhere Device Protection

Roaming Client Protection with Scout360 protects client devices off your network regardless of VPN status.

  • Roaming Clients for Windows and MacOS
  • Dynamic Policies for different rules in and out of office
  • Zero touch deployment with dynamic packages
  • One click remote uninstall/disable/forget
  • Active Directory and user aware logging

Data Insights, Reporting, And Logs

Get access to real-time logs with full export capabilities to better track activity by location and network.

  • Realtime Data Availability
  • Activity by Domain, Category, Top Level Domain, Record Type
  • DNS Message Inspection
  • Full Log Export
Reporting and logs dashboard
Custom Allow and Block Lists management interface

Custom Allow /Block Lists

Take complete control of allowed and blocked sites through custom lists.

  • Manage Global Allow/Block
  • Create Custom Whitelist Entries
  • Create Custom Blacklist Entries
  • Inclusion Shield Whitelist Only Mode

Application Filter

Control application access on your network to better manage bandwidth and user behavior.

  • Manage 12 Application Categories
  • Filter Bandwidth Heavy Apps
  • Control Gaming And Social Media Access
  • Block P2P (Peer-To-Peer) Related Sites
Application Filter management interface
Force Safe Search configuration

Force Safe Search

Protect users from inappropriate content within search engine web, image, and video results.

  • One Click Network Wide Safe Search
  • Google Safe Mode
  • Auto-block All Non-Safe Search Engines
  • Bing Safe Mode

YouTube Safe Mode

Take advantage of YouTube content controls supporting all protected modes. Filter mature videos from YouTube on networks even when you have no control of the end user devices.

  • One Click Network Wide Restrictions
  • Moderate Content Mode
  • Google Workspace Supported
  • Strict Content Mode
YouTube Safe Mode configuration
Ad Blocker feature interface

Ad Blocker

Web based ads are more than just inconvenient, they are an actual security risk. Additionally, ad based content can be mature in focus. Reduce these risks with our Ad Block feature.

  • Prevent Inappropriate Content Within Ads
  • Protection Against Hidden Ad Based Malware
  • Improve Page Load Speeds With Less Clutter
  • Blocks Most Ad Networks

Powerful Internet Threat Protection

DNS filtering provides a powerful layer of security to prevent ransomware, phishing scams, and specific DNS protocol based attacks.

  • DNS Layer Botnet Protection
  • Stops Known Ransomware, Malware, And Phishing Sites
  • Blocks Unknown Zero-Day Site Threats With Realtime DNS Inspection
  • Block Cryptomining Sites
Internet Threat Protection dashboard

Global Anycast Network

Resilient cloud based service is easy to setup and powerful in scale.

ScoutDNS Global Anycast Network with data centers worldwide
  • No Hardware To Buy
  • No Software To Install
  • Incredibly Easy To Deploy
  • Low Latency From 15 Global Data Centers
  • 100% Up-time Service Availability

Take Control of Web Access

Start filtering content in minutes with ScoutDNS. No hardware required.