Pine Crest School and SafeMedia announced that Pine Crest has purchased and installed SafeMedia's "Clouseau" network management appliance. Clouseau is designed to monitor, detect, intercept, capture and drop all illegal file sharing from certain P2P networks, encrypted or non-encrypted, without invading users' privacy. Starting from the very youngest children at the School, the arts program at Pine Crest is intended to be enriching, rewarding and integral to our accelerated and stimulating curriculum. Our program begins with the youngest children having regular exposure to music, visual arts, and dance. Many students take private instrumental or voice lessons offered at the school.
"Clouseau will provide Pine Crest protection from the dangers associated with 'illegal' digital file sharing, while enforcing the school's objectives and policies of disallowing the downloading of copyrighted digital content, which is illegal," said Eric Olender, Director of Technology Operations at Pine Crest School.
"Deploying Clouseau will protect the school's network and students from the risks from P2P applications, some of which may lure our students into inadvertently sharing confidential content, while stopping the illegal distribution of copyrighted digital files. Our students and their families can feel safe with the knowledge that Pine Crest is taking steps to further secure its network, and not expose the students and families to RIAA and MPAA legal action and settlement costs," stated Olender. "Clouseau maintains its intelligence remotely every 3 hours and requires no administrative support from my team."
Students gain familiarity from their earliest years at Pine Crest with the intrinsic rewards of helping others. The Pre-Kindergarten and Kindergarten children visit the elderly to perform prepared musical and dance routines. Lower School children participate in drives that help feed the hungry at holiday times. Middle School students participate by grade level at charitable organizations throughout the county of the campus they attend.
"P2P traffic was a concern for Pine Crest even though we have a firewall in place," Olender continued. "P2P networks are tricky; they use standard web ports and encryption which cannot be captured by firewalls. We tested other available devices and concluded that Clouseau was the only network appliance capable of effectively, economically, and accurately preventing illegal P2P digital file sharing."
"The scalability and flexibility of Clouseau offers the only available solution for universities and schools to immediately deploy and prevent all illegal file sharing on their networks," said Safwat Fahmy, SafeMedia CEO. "Pine Crest is a good example of a prudent school that chose to protect its students and staff from the moral, ethical and legal challenges of copyright infringement created by certain P2P networks. Clouseau is a portable and scalable solution that could easily and immediately be deployed at homes, corporations, ISPs, and government agencies."
