Company description
Based in East Moline, IL, Cipafilter offers web filtering for schools to keep students safe online.
Products Offered:
2 main products:
1- Web filter
2- Firewall
web filter and firewall- sold as a single suite package where you get everything in one. But they’ve split it out into a next gen firewall package and web filter
- Split between 2 packages
- Still offer the original suite package
Main Things They Do:
- Content filtering
- App control
- Bandwidth control
- Insight reports
- Really good support
- Ssl decryption is a huge thing that people are either running from it or running into it. A lot of schools have had a bad taste in their mouth so they want it, but don’t want to deal with it. (they’d rather have unsafe internet rather than no internet) but this company says they have an amazing product and solution that’s different and they need to trust them that they’re better than them. They’re relatively small company
Entering into E-Rate season (spring time) where the schools are ready to buy firewalls and get funding for that right now
- 3 different sized units
- Same software/product just different sizing for the district that you’re selling to
- School budgets come due in July
- E-rate season: starting in January, schools can start putting out bids for E-rate which is federal funding for all of their technology except for filtering
- To get E-rate, you need web filter, however E-rate does not cover filter, it only covers firewall
- Web filter only products aren’t e-rateable
- Cipafilter can be covered by E-Rate, saving their customers a lot of money
- July is when they actually pay for the products and receive their e-rate funding
Tech support that comes with the product
- Some of the best support in industry, 90 percent answer rate with US based support team and always a human answering the problems
