light speed web filter with iOS 9 style filtering

[blackholemac]

Is anyone here using Lightspeed filtering on iOS 9 iPads and not using proxy or Lightspeed Mobile browser app successfully?

[betty02]

I used to have LightSpeed running in my ld workplace and we didn't have a proxy installed or use the LS Browser and everything was OK?

Anything specific you needed to know?

[blackholemac]

Thank you for your response, but probably not going to help...here's why:

1. We have about 2,000 iPads that need web filtered both on and off-network at home. Our lawyer's interpretations of state laws note that we MUST filter content even at home. I won't go any further here, but this is an unchangeable decision as things stand now.

2. Up until now, we have been using system wide proxy-based filtering with LightSpeed to handle this. The proxy works, but is very ugly and re-routes all traffic back onto our network to filter and then sends it out...even from home...ugh. We have looked at other avenues such as PAC file based proxy, but we got hacked by random idiots using our proxy for malicious behavior such as spambots. We have been instructed to secure the proxy, originally with login and password, but now using the checkbox for "allow only iOS devices and Chromebooks". We probably could use a PAC file now; BUT...

3. Enter Apple with iOS 9 and it's Filter Data Provider and Filter Control Provider extensions. When Apple released iOS 9, LightSpeed publicly thanked them on their website for that and indicated immediate support. We went to try to spin that up today and failed. Placed a call to LightSpeed technical support. Received a response and I quote "Apple has plans on allowing devices to go directly to a specified Web Content Filter, which will taker over their own native Web Content Filter, so it is on the roadmap. I'm just not sure when it's going to be released unfortunately." Obviously, they are very contradictory and I'm not impressed, but am powerless to change our content filter as the Windows side of the house wants it and needs it.

I was mainly searching for folks that had it working...though I am highly doubting anyone will chime in if on device filtering is not out yet. I was honestly hoping this rep was in error.

[Nick_Gooch]

I was told the same thing by our Lightspeed rep. Not available yet.

[CasperSally]

We aren't with lightspeed, but it seems like web filters are struggling with what Apple is allowing them to do with latest OS/iOS versions. They want to manage things via MDM, which isn't helpful when you're already using a MDM.

We're using iBoss and PAC script for OSX. We don't have iOS devices that go home.