Leading School Digital Safety Platform Launches Proprietary Technology To Help Stop Professional Proxies

Securly includes this technology innovation in all Securly Filter subscriptions as part of safetyOS™ for the 2026 - 2027 school year.

CHARLOTTE, N.C., Sept. 1, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Securly, the K-12 student digital safety operating system, today announced the inclusion of its tested, three-layer professional proxy detection automation system into the Securly safetyOS™. This new technology not only detects professional proxy tools before they are launched by students, but automatically incorporates the results into school districts' policies.

"As long as schools have put restrictions on technology, students have searched for workarounds to get to their favorite non-educational sites, mostly gaming and porn," said Securly Chief Technology Officer Spencer Mallder. "Most content filter options still rely on outdated models and put the burden on the schools to take proxy lessons and update their own policies. We don't pass on the burden; instead, we make the solution automatic."

Students increasingly use professional proxy services engineered specifically to defeat the scanning technology used by typical school content filters. Many proxies are dressed as classroom tools: a site presents as a math practice page, then opens games and unmonitored chat apps once a student unlocks it. Typically, the district's activity log shows a student on an educational site.

Securly's system runs three distinct layers. PageScan, Securly's proprietary AI classification engine, evaluates any domain not already in the Securly Filter database in near real time, before the page loads. Securly's Proxy Unmasker examines suspicious sites in multiple passes, the way a student would actually unlock them, so cloaked pages reveal themselves. Finally, Securly's unique Domain Family tools identify the shared infrastructure behind a proxy operation so they can be instantly categorized and blocked.

Learn more HERE about how professional proxy tools are hindering schools and how Securly is innovating to meet this technology moment.

About Securly:

For more than a decade, Securly has set the gold standard for student digital safety and critical IT infrastructure, keeping over 20 million students across 27,000 schools safe, secure, and ready to learn. This includes managing over 14 million school-issued devices and reviewing 75 million student digital activities daily. Securly empowers educators, counselors, and IT staff with cutting-edge tools and actionable insights, while always prioritizing student privacy. All Securly products meet strict FERPA and COPPA compliance requirements and are SOC 2 certified, putting student data privacy at the center of our work. Learn more at http://www.securly.com.

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