Protective DNS for places of worship, run by small teams
Churches, mosques, synagogues, temples and gurdwaras run on small staff teams and volunteers, with an office laptop, a giving terminal, livestream cameras and a hall that hosts youth groups and food banks. Shield blocks phishing, malware and C2 callbacks at the DNS lookup, with no hardware and nothing to install on the network. Community WiFi stays family-safe for children's groups.
What is at stake
Where a place of worship is exposed
Treasurers and administrators
Volunteers handle donations, Gift Aid records and supplier payments by email. Fake invoices and login pages are aimed straight at them.Livestream kit left running
Cameras, encoders and the streaming laptop stay connected all week, often set up once by a volunteer and never updated.Children in the hall
Youth groups, toddler sessions and holiday clubs use the community WiFi. It has to be safe for them.
How Shield fits
Office, livestream, hall and community, kept apart
- Office and treasurerThreat defense on the office laptop and volunteer devices, with new domains blocked to stop fresh phishing sites.
- Livestream and AVCameras, encoders and projection limited to streaming and update domains, so a service always goes out.
- Giving and card readersThreat-first policy on donation terminals and card readers, separate from the community WiFi.
- Community WiFiFamily-safe categories and Safe Search for youth groups, with rules that change by time of day.
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.exampleProof
What Shield gives a place of worship
- 10 days
- earlier warning of new phishing domains than standard blocklists
- Friendly WiFifiltering meets the Friendly WiFi standard for family-safe public WiFi
- IWFfiltering meets the Internet Watch Foundation bar on community WiFi
FAQ
Questions we hear from teams like yours
We have no IT person. Can volunteers set it up?
Yes. Point your router at Shield, with no hardware to buy, and choose a ready-made policy for each network. A scheduled PDF report can go to the administrator or a trustee each month, so someone sees what was blocked.
Will it interrupt our livestream?
No. Allow the streaming platform and the update domains your encoder needs, and Shield answers each lookup before the connection starts. Ad and tracker blocking on the community WiFi leaves more of the line free for the stream.
Can we change the rules for youth groups?
Yes. Set policy by time of day and day of week, per network or SSID. Tighten categories and enforce Safe Search on Google, Bing and YouTube for youth club evenings, then relax them for adult study groups.
Can people get round it with a VPN?
Shield blocks VPN and proxy apps with one click, so the community WiFi stays inside the policy you set. Nothing needs installing on visitors' phones for filtering to apply.
What happens if Shield goes down during a service?
Shield runs on a dual anycast DNS network and fails closed, so an outage never leaves your networks unfiltered. Nobody needs to come in and switch anything back on.
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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.