CyberHound Partnerships
CyberHound has a diverse range of Technology, Community and Industry Partners whom they work very closely with to push paradigm boundaries.
Community Partners
CyberHound’s Community Partners are offered benefits for their own organisation and the schools they represent.
The benefits we provide include:
- Access to a unique cybersafety and behavioural analytics technology.
- Availability of unique tools to facilitate digital leadership in classrooms.
- Complementary Digital Risk Management Assessment for member schools.
- Special pricing for member schools.
- Time saving in the selection and procurement processes.
- Consistency of policy across member schools.
Christian Schools Australia
CyberHound has been a partner of Christian Schools Australia (CSA) for over a decade. In a freshly expanded agreement CSA now endorses CyberHound as the preferred provider of cybersafety and internet services to its member network of 140 schools.
Additionally CyberHound is now the Platinum Sponsor of the organisation’s key events such as its National Conference and Symposium. CSA and CyberHound will also partner on research and resources designed to help address the scourge of cyberbullying.
CSA Chief Executive Officer Dr Daniel Pampuch said the ongoing partnership with CyberHound is valuable well beyond providing financial support to CSA’s various activities.
“CyberHound has walked a committed path of innovation with us and we appreciate the many great benefits that our enhanced partnership will bring to school communities,” Dr Pampuch said.
“They have continually delivered real value to our schools, extending far beyond financial terms, particularly through their unique cybersafety capabilities.”
Dr Pampuch said CyberHound’s commitment to the continual development of intelligent education technology solutions made it the perfect fit for CSA.
Read the Partnership Announcement here.
Australian Principals Federation
The Australian Principals Federation represents State Primary and Secondary Principals in the industrial arena in the states of Victoria and Western Australia.
CyberHound is working closely with the Australian Principals Federation to provide cybersafety and learning enablement for their member schools while also actively supporting the work they are doing nationally.
“CyberHound is an outstanding service and offers significant value to principals by helping then prevent stress amongst the executive leadership group by reliably preventing or enabling early intervention for ‘at risk’ online behaviour.” Julie Podbury, VIC President, Australian Principals Federation.
Read the Partnership Announcement here.
Associated Christian Schools Australia
Associated Christian Schools Australia was founded by a group of Christian school principals and promotes Christian culture and education in their member schools.
CyberHound continues to support Associated Christian Schools Australia by providing their schools with a safe online environment for their students.
“CyberHound is a company I have worked with for many years and have confidence in their current solutions and ability to add value to schools in reducing risk and providing the ultimate level of online protection to our students.” Lynne Doneley, Executive Officer, Associated Christian Schools Australia
Lutheran Schools Association
The Lutheran Schools Association is a collaborative team enabling, encouraging and supporting our sites of learning to be thriving, innovative providers of quality education in a Lutheran context.
“It’s our goal to ensure Lutheran schools across our network are given access to affordable and effective online protection and leading cybersafety services.”
“We’ve been able to negotiate an affordable package with CyberHound that will support our schools across a range of areas – from protecting student welfare and helping to optimise and modernise our online environments,” Rod Wearn, Education Leader at the Lutheran Schools Association.
Read the Partnership Announcement here.
FOBISIA
The Federation of British International Schools in Asia, is a membership association of British International Schools of quality in the Asian region.
The schools in the Federation work together to provide a range of combined events for their students; professional development opportunities for their teachers; and collaboration on a range of matters that support the provision of a British-styled education in the region.
Founded in 1988, and registered with the Registry of Societies in Singapore in 2002, the Federation now has 55 member schools from Brunei, South Korea, Taiwan, China, Hong Kong, India, Vietnam, Thailand, Malaysia, Mongolia, Nepal, Singapore, Indonesia, Philippines and Brunei.
CyberHound is an affiliate member of FOBISIA and are committed to supporting the Federation by providing their member schools with safe online environments for their students.
Technology Partners
Technology partners (or channel partners) are organisations that CyberHound connects with to increase the provision of access, support, services and value for its customers.
Aruba, A Hewlett Packard Enterprise Company
Aruba is a networking vendor selling enterprise wireless LAN and edge access networking equipment worldwide. Aruba is redefining the IT edge with mobility and IOT Solutions for organisations.
CyberHound is proud to be an Aruba 360 Security Exchange Program Partner. The Program allows Aruba customers to leverage existing security investments by seamlessly integrating them with Aruba solutions. Our technology integration with Aruba’s ClearPass product enhances network security, especially for BYOD networks, through advanced threat detection and enforcement of network access policies.
CyberHound’s partnership with Aruba ensures that businesses, schools and other organisations can seamlessly scan and report inappropriate communications in social media, chat, instant messaging, and Web 2.0 applications. Aruba has certified CyberHound’s web filtering and the ClearView social media governance and control platforms to interoperate with Aruba’s enterprise wireless LAN infrastructure.
Discover more at cyberhound.com/clearpass/
A Hewlett Packard Enterprise
Hewlett Packard Enterprises (HPE) has been in the innovation business for more than 75 years and strives to provide technology solutions that help businesses deliver leading-edge, high-performance solutions.
By collaborating with HPE and its OEM program, security innovator Superloop delivers a high performance and scalable CyberHound cybersecurity appliance to K12 schools. Using the HPE ProLiant DL360 Gen10 servers, the solution automatically detects and disables threats via integration with ClearPass Policy Manager, and utilizes signature-based rules to identify potentially unsafe student activity, while ensuring unimpeded and optimized access to valuable online learning tools and resources to enhance educational opportunities.
Read the HPE Case Study here.
Read the Partnership Press Release here.
Watch our video here.
ReadCloud
ReadCloud, the innovative Australian company that created the world’s first social eReading platform specifically designed for schools, delivers the entire Australian curriculum digitally through a single App.
The integration gives schools more choice as to how they want to deliver the curriculum. Technically, it means CyberHound is able to cache the eBooks delivered by ReadCloud and this significantly enhances efficiency and reduces costs for schools.
Read the Partnership Announcement here.
SEQTA
CyberHound integrates with the SEQTA platform to provide a number of tools for teachers, students and welfare staff. Teaching staff can view student web activity and manage Internet access using Classroom Controls within SEQTA TEACH while students can access specific content using the SEQTA ENGAGE portal. In addition welfare officers are able to view important student data to assist in identifying at risk students and inappropriate Internet activities.
Read the Partnership Announcement here.
AARNet
AARNet is a not-for-profit company that provides ultra high-speed internet and communications services only to Australia’s research and education sector. Our customers are universities, research institutes, cultural organisations, schools and vocational training providers.
Following an extensive review and testing process, leading security provider CyberHound was selected to partner with AARNet. With both companies having extremely strong pedigrees in the education sector and long standing service development and innovation along with similar long term approaches to customer service, it made perfect sense.
Read the Partnership Announcement here.
Xirrus
Xirrus is a leading provider of high-performance wireless networks. Xirrus Array-based solutions perform under the most demanding circumstances with wired-like reliability and superior security.
CyberHound has been recognised as a ‘Performance Partner’ the highest partnership level in the Xirrus Technology Alliance Partner Program. Xirrus and CyberHound have certified each other’s solutions for interoperability, providing efficient integration, and allowing new features and functionality to be tested with each other’s products to provide a scalable, secure and highly reliable wireless infrastructure.
Industry Supporters
CyberHound supports the work these organisations do in the Australian community.
The Alannah and Madeline Foundation (AMF)
The Foundation was set up in memory of Alannah and Madeline Mikac, aged 6 and 3, who were tragically killed with their mother and 32 others at Port Arthur, Tasmania, on 28 April 1996. The Foundation was launched in 1997 and has been operating for almost 20 years.
Their key objectives are to care for children who have experienced or witnessed serious violence; reduce the incidence of bullying, cyber bullying and other cyber risks; and, advocate for the safety and wellbeing of children.
CyberHound has been a long-time supporter of The Alannah and Madeline Foundation and endorses the work they do to keep children safe from violence.
Find out more about AMF here.
ThinkUKnow
ThinkUKnow is a partnership between the Australian Federal Police, Commonwealth Bank, Microsoft and Datacom and delivered in partnership with all State and Territory police and Neighbourhood Watch Australasia. The cyber safety presentations sensitively cover a range of topics including sexting, cyber bullying, online child exploitation, online privacy, and importantly what to do when something goes wrong.
CyberHound is proud to support ThinkUKnow and their important messages and presentations. We stand with ThinkUKnow and their partners and join their push to educate and protect young people across Australia.
Find out more about ThinkUKnow here.
The Office of the Children’s eSafety Commissioner
The Office of the eSafety Commissioner is committed to empowering all Australians to have safer, more positive experiences online. The Office was established in 2015 with a mandate to coordinate and lead the online safety efforts across government, industry and the not-for profit community.
CyberHound supports the Office of the Children’s eSafety Commissioner by actively sharing tips and resources to help keep Australian’s safe online.
Find out more about the Office of the Children’s eSafety Commissioner here.
Stay Smart Online
CyberHound is proud to be a partner of the Australian Government’s online safety and security website staysmartonline.gov.au. As a partner we are serious about online safety and are dedicated to promoting key online safety messages across our industry and community. Each year we are very humbled to be able to take part and support Stay Smart Online week also.
Find our more about Stay Smart Online here.
QAssure
QAssure has approved and accredited CyberHound as a national ICT Supplier.
QAussure’s approval is not given without considerable checks and balances. Only ICT suppliers that are credible and fit for purpose are accredited. As a result, our QAssure tick of approval gives vendors confidence in the quality and service they’ll receive from the businesses we list.