Fastvue – Real-Time Internet Monitoring & Safeguarding
About Fastvue
Fastvue Reporter for Education delivers real‑time monitoring of student internet use, flagging searches or content related to self‑harm, extremism, drugs, pornography, violence, and more. It integrates with school firewalls (including BYOD), automates alerts and scheduled reports for safeguarding staff, and meets KCSiE compliance—without needing agents or disrupting learning.
Fastvue integrates with; Barracuda, CISCO, Fortinet, Palo Alto Networks, Sophos, SonicWall, Forefront and Watchguard.
Safeguard students online
Monitor student well-being and easily identify students at risk of suicide and self-harm, extremism, drug abuse, violence, and more.
Improve digital citizenship
Get visibility into students engaging with positive or negative online material.
Reduce the IT burden
Free up IT resources by automating safety reports and alerts for student welfare, safeguarding, and pastoral care staff.
Overview
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
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.
Get started in 3 easy steps
1. Install Fastvue Reporter
Install Fastvue Reporter on a server in your network or private cloud.
2. Connect your firewall
Send log data from your firewall to the Fastvue server (usually via syslog).
3. Enjoy better visibility
Get a better, more comprehensive view of your internet and network usage with easy-to-use reporting and real-time alerts.