Impero enhance school protection working with Internet Watch Foundation

Published:  Thu 20 Jun 2013

Impero has become an Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) Member. By becoming a Member, Impero has access to a range of services designed to protect online networks.

Originally born within the classroom over ten years ago, Impero Solutions Limited Opens in New Window specialise in the creation and development of comprehensive, yet user-friendly, network management software for use in education through to enterprise. A unification of several products all moulded into a single interface, Impero is designed for the purpose of IT management, monitoring, security, and support. Flexible and extensive, our flagship product enables the effective and simultaneous management of not just an entire network, but also each and every user.

Jon Valentine, Managing Director of Impero, said: “As an organisation dedicated, at our core, to supporting schools with protection for children who learn in a technology-assisted environment, we are delighted to be partnering with IWF in the battle to reduce the availability of child sexual abuse images online.”

Susie Hargreaves, IWF Chief Executive, said: “It is more important than ever for IWF and its industry Members to stop legitimate online services being exploited by criminals. Therefore I am delighted to welcome Impero to membership and look forward to a successful partnership protecting schools’ users across the UK”.  

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Contact: IWF Membership team on 01223 203030 or [email protected].

About Internet Watch Foundation membership

IWF Members have access to a range of services designed to combat online child sexual abuse images and videos. These services help reduce the ability of criminals to exploit legitimate services and speed up the removal of child sexual abuse content hosted anywhere in the world.

The IWF and its Member organisations are committed to the shared vision of an internet free of child sexual abuse content.

For information about becoming a member of the IWF please visit www.iwf.org.uk/join-us or email: [email protected].  

About the Internet Watch Foundation

The IWF is the Hotline to report:

    child sexual abuse content hosted anywhere in the world;
    criminally obscene adult content hosted in the UK;
    non-photographic child sexual abuse images hosted in the UK.

For more information please visit www.iwf.org.uk.

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