Welcome to Securus Africa
Securus is a global leader in Children’s Online Safety
Since 2002 Securus has been at the forefront of online safety and monitoring software solutions for the education sector. As a pioneer of digital safety, we have developed leading edge technology and continue to innovate in response to the ever-changing online digital world.
Our leading digital monitoring system protects pupils from online harms
Our mission is to protect children and young adults in Education in the digital world in which they increasingly live their lives.
We combat the huge rise in online threats and concerns and enable both students and staff to use IT resources in a safe and secure environment.
Whilst Africa has some of the best private and public schools in the world, there is an urgent need to ensure digital safeguarding and pastoral care policies are seen to be world class as well.
The safeguarding risks associated with the online world need to be considered now more than ever as the additional impact of the modern digital world has seen a significant rise in online incidents amongst students in a variety of education settings.
Why Do We Need Online Monitoring?
We Live In An 'Always On' Digital World
In Africa teenagers check their phones more than 350 times per day
On average they spend more than 7 hours online every day and on weekends even more
83% have unsupervised access to the Internet 7 days a week
59% of kids admit parents would not approve of their web use
89% have experienced sexting
54% have given personal information to a stranger
- Online child sexual abuse has seen exponential growth since the pandemic
- Online grooming crimes have risen by more than 80% in four years
- Firewalls do not prevent grooming or exploitation
Social Media is the most common source of potential harm for children
Content
Harms
Potentially harmful images, video, audio or text that users may encounter when browsing, through recommendation algorithms or when shared by others.
Contact
Harms
Potentially harmful behaviors which users may witness or be targets of online, such as trolling, unwanted sexual messages and bullying, abuse or threats.
Commercial
Harms
Content or behavior which puts a user at risk of financial harm or disadvantage, including potential harms related to the commercialised collection of personal data.
- The thinking of many school leaders is ‘that won’t happen here’.
- We need to change that thinking to ‘it could happen here’.
How Does Securus Digital Monitoring Work?
- cyber bullying
- suicide and self harm
- mental health issues
- racism and discrimination
- hacking
- gang culture
- substance abuse
- sexual abuse and grooming
When an incident is detected a screenshot ‘capture’ with detailed evidence is stored on our highly secure cloud-based console for review by an authorised member of school staff. Or, with our Full Monitoring Service (Securus FMS), our safeguarding team monitors all captures on your behalf, immediately alerting school staff to high severity incidents.
Key Components of Securus Digital Monitoring
The Securus
Console
Our intuitive, secure, access anywhere, cloud-based console captures and stores all incidents triggered by words and phrases detected from our library containing 24+ categories of concern.
When an incident is detected a screenshot ‘capture’ with detailed evidence automatically updates the Securus Console, enabling safeguarding staff to easily review and manage potential risks.
The console also features a management dashboard and reporting suite.
The Monitoring
Software
With online & offline monitoring at both the device and network level, our Securus 360 software monitors all school managed devices & also personal devices connected to the school network.
Incidents triggered generate a screenshot ‘capture’ with full details which instantly updates the Securus Console.
We not only capture keyboard generated incidents. With our unique OCR scanning technology our device level software also captures ANY application generated incidents including Microsoft Teams.
Fully Managed Service
or Self Managed
With Securus 360, schools have the option to monitor captures themselves using the Securus Console. Or if time constraints and staff resource are stretched, you may wish to leave the monitoring to us…
With Securus FMS, our fully managed service, our highly trained safeguarding team will monitor activity on behalf of the school and alert school DSLs, safeguarding, and senior leadership staff to incidents of concern.
Customer
Support & Portal
Full access is available to all customers to our dedicated support team and knowledge base portal.
Key support features include all software updates and library updates to reflect current threats, trends and jargon and our work with industry bodies such as the IWF & CTIRU.
We also provide unlimited online training sessions alongside telephone and email support.
It’s time to take action
Securus is a window into a child’s ‘online’ mind, a place where they continue to live their lives, monitoring is a pro-active help and support line that they often use…without them asking!
For additional information please contact the Securus Africa team so we can demonstrate:
- How the Securus system operates.
- How we can improve your online safeguarding ecosystem.
- How we can assist you to evaluate the data generated by the system.
Securus will include online user training and basic ‘responsible digital citizen’ safeguarding education. We will also review and benchmark Acceptable User, Behaviour and Digital Safeguarding Policies if required.
We are UK based with a global presence in:
- USA
- Australia
- UAE
- Malaysia
- Switzerland
- Spain
With more than 3,500+ customers worldwide and in more than 150+ Multi Academy Trust Schools in the UK.
Securus Africa is represented in:
- South Africa
- Mauritius
- Zambia
- Zimbabwe
Contact our team today for additional information or to book a demonstration…