August 10, 2004 — (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — The New Zealand government will invest $9.5 million to ensure a safe
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cyberspace for schools through screening out hackers and filtering Web sites and email including spam, Education Minister Trevor Mallard announced Monday.
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“Contracts have been signed with four providers which will give state and state-integrated schools a choice of free products and services that enable safe and secure internet use,” said Mallard.
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Telecom and Watchdog had been contracted to provide “managed” Internet services to most New Zealand schools, while SurfControl and IBM will provide software for email and content filtering for those schools wanting to manage their own services.
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A firewall that will keep out hackers, system scans and unauthorized breaches, content filtering inappropriate Web sites, email filtering and management of spam and junk emails are some of the managed services that will be provided.
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