Protect housing officers, landlord networks and residents' WiFi
Housing associations run offices, repairs teams and housing officers on the move, plus landlord networks for door entry, CCTV and warden call. Shield blocks phishing, malware, ransomware and C2 callbacks at the lookup on each of your own networks first. Where you provide WiFi to residents, it adds family-safe filtering that reflects your duty of care to the people living there.
Guest WiFi policy
- Adult contentBlocked
- GamblingBlocked
- Safe Search on Google, Bing and YouTubeEnforced
- Streaming at busy timesLimited
Allow list
bookings.examplemenu.exampleBlock list
rival-venue.exampleWhat is at stake
Tenancy data, field teams and shared buildings
Resident data on the move
Housing officers carry tenancy, arrears and vulnerability records on laptops and phones used in homes and cars.Landlord building systems
Door entry, CCTV, lift monitoring and warden call run on networks that cannot take an agent.Residents' WiFi
Residents of all ages, including vulnerable adults and children, use the WiFi you provide in blocks and sheltered schemes.
How Shield fits
A policy for staff, buildings and residents
- Housing officersThreat-first rules on officers' laptops and phones whenever they join an office or scheme network.
- Offices and contact centreThreat defence first, with rules by Entra ID or Active Directory group.
- Landlord networksDoor entry, CCTV and warden call on an allow list through the relay, each device visible by internal IP.
- Resident WiFiFamily-safe categories and Safe Search, with ad blocking to stretch a shared connection further.
See everything Shield stopsSocial housing WiFi on Purple Access
Proof
Filtering that reflects your duty of care
- 44%
- less data used with ads and trackers blocked, by Purple's own measurement
- IWFfiltering on resident WiFi meets the Internet Watch Foundation bar
- Friendly WiFistandard met for family-safe filtering
- Cyber Essentialscertified, alongside ISO 27001, GDPR and CCPA
FAQ
Questions we hear from teams like yours
Do residents need to install anything?
No. Resident WiFi points at Shield through the router or DHCP, so filtering applies to any phone, tablet or games console that connects. Nothing is installed on residents' devices, and a branded block page explains what was stopped.
Can each scheme or block have its own policy?
Yes. Policy is set per network, SSID, VLAN and site. A sheltered scheme, a general needs block and a supported housing service can each carry their own rules, managed centrally from one dashboard.
Does filtering resident WiFi raise data protection questions?
Shield sees the domains a device looks up, not the content of what is sent. Raw query logs are kept for 9 days. Purple holds ISO 27001, Cyber Essentials, GDPR and CCPA, and we send the documentation your DPO needs to sign it off before you start.
Our door entry and warden call cannot run agents. Are they covered?
Yes. Point those networks at the Shield relay and each device's lookups arrive with its internal IP. An allow list keeps them talking only to the domains their suppliers need, and reports show anything unexpected.
Will it slow residents' broadband?
Blocking ads and trackers usually makes it faster. Purple's own measurements show up to 500% faster page loads and up to 44% less data used, which helps where a whole block shares one connection.
Other industries
Central government
Threat defence for departmental estates, agencies and remote officials, with evidence for Cyber Essentials and the CAF.Local government
Threat defence for council staff and sites, with family-safe public WiFi in libraries and the schools estate.Airports
Threat defence for airport operations and staff, with family-safe passenger WiFi proven at AGS Airports.
Decide what your network reaches, free for 30 days
Tell us which networks and sites you run and who is on them. We map a policy to each one: staff, guests, students, residents and IoT. Then point one network at Shield and see what it stops for 30 days, before you pay anything. Running change control? We plan a pilot on one site with your team instead. No hardware to install.
- We map your networksA Purple expert maps your networks, your venues and the people on each, and answers your questions on bypass, outages, data handling and integrations.
- You get a policy for each oneStaff, guests, students, residents, IoT and paid tiers, each with the policy it needs.
- You prove it, then get your tailored quote30 days free on one network, or a pilot on one site planned with your team, then Shield priced standalone or as an add-on to your Access plan.
Your policy map
Tell us your networks. We map a policy to each one.
A Purple expert comes back with a policy for every network and group you run, from the team that has run content filtering since 2012 and runs WiFi for 80,000+ venues in 90 countries.