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Built by a cyber security team, for the way schools teach.

DNS Angel is made and run by IronSights, an Australian cyber security team that protects schools and colleges. We built it for a problem every school knows: the web filter that keeps students safe also gets in the way of lessons.

Four ways schools cope today, and what each one costs

When a lesson needs a blocked site, schools fall back on one of these. Each one costs either the lesson or the school's safety.

  1. The ticket

    The teacher emails IT. The lesson is over before anyone can respond, and the resource gets dropped.

  2. The permanent hole

    IT unblocks the site "for now" and nobody blocks it again. A year later the filter is full of unblocked sites nobody can explain.

  3. The master key

    A teacher is given a login to the filter console. They now hold admin power over a security control, with no limits and no end time.

  4. The workaround

    Someone uses a phone's hotspot or a personal device, and the filter is bypassed without anyone knowing.

DNS Angel is the fifth way: a teacher allows one site, for one room or class, for one lesson, inside limits the school sets. It ends by itself, and it's on the record.

How we work

  • Say what's true now

    Starting, Live and Ending are different states, and DNS Angel never shows one it hasn't confirmed. We publish timings we've measured in our lab.

  • One narrow key for teachers

    Teachers can do one thing themselves: allow a site for a lesson. Everything else stays with the school and with us.

  • Failures stay on screen

    If something can't start or can't end, the people who need to know see it, in plain words, until it's fixed.

  • Made in Australia, for Australian schools

    An Australian team, an app hosted in Sydney, and the language Australian schools actually use.

Who's behind it

IronSights is an Australian cyber security team. We protect Australian organisations, including schools and colleges. DNS Angel is how we help schools with the part of security teachers feel every day.

When your school uses DNS Angel, the same team sets it up with you, watches it after hours and answers your questions.

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Talk to the people who'd set it up.

A walkthrough with the IronSights team: how teachers allow a site, what your IT team controls, what leaders can see, and how we set it up for you.

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