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Palo Alto firewalls do decryption on the fly should you want to look at this. It can all be logged with short or long logging.

Worked in your arena for 5 years. Kids are creative and crafty. We had kids getting around the MDM/DNS blocks by changing the DNS/Proxy settings in their iPads. This is not easily overcome with existing MDM solutions AND letting the iPad be usable. BYoD is a whole different animal since you cannot legally "touch" their devices, you have to implement the federally-mandated blocks at the infrastructure level. Kids can use VPNs all day and there is nothing that can be done in reality.

At a previous job, believe it or not, I worked with a client with almost a zero budget who was having massive issues with malware/ads in their public space that offered free computer use. Being the budget was minimal (less and $100 to fix), I deployed two Pi-holes and taught the "admin" how to manage it. Cheap, effective, works. I set the whole thing up to fail back to the network's DNS should the Pi-holes fail. Still running almost two years later.

The Pi-hole can block about any content you would like it to block with almost zero-configuration. Easy to block a single domain or with a new rule set subscription.



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