Digital safety that fits a pupil, a student, a lab PC and a library terminal.
SafeAnywhere is the only end-to-end digital-safety suite built for both K-12 schools and higher-education institutions. One platform, two audience languages, DPDP Act 2023 compliant with Indian data residency. Built by ShepHertz.
Everything a Principal, Class Teacher and ICT lead needs, under one roof.
The schools stack: a safe browser on pupil devices, a Guard app on school tablets and ICT lab PCs, a browser extension for staff and BYOD, and a unified Principal + ICT dashboard. Vocabulary built for pupils, Class Teachers, Student Welfare Coordinators and the Indian school day.
SafeAnywhere Browser
The primary safe browser for school-issued devices and ICT lab PCs. AI-aware content filtering, policy-based access and category controls enforced before the page loads.
First-party browser for lab PCs and school-issued devices
AI-aware filtering: harmful content, social risks, generative-AI misuse
Role-based policy for students, teachers and administrators
No reading of keystrokes, messages or chats
iPad coming soon
Guard app for tablets and ICT lab PCs
A device-level agent that extends policy, screen-time controls and attention signals beyond the browser into every app on a pupil's tablet and on ICT lab PCs. Live on Android tablets and ICT lab PCs today; iPad launching soon.
Android tablets: live today
ICT lab PCs (Windows): live today
iPad: launching soon
App-level controls, screen-time caps and attention signals
Device-wide policy enforcement, not just inside the browser
Browser extension (Chrome, Edge, Firefox, Safari)
For staff machines and BYOD laptops where the SafeAnywhere Browser is not the primary surface. One extension extends the same filtering and signals into the browsers people already use.
Chrome, Edge, Firefox and Safari supported
Same filtering rules as the SafeAnywhere Browser
Zero-touch deployment on staff and BYOD machines
Signals flow into the same unified dashboard
Unified Principal & ICT dashboard
One dashboard, role-based lenses. The Principal sees compliance posture, severity queue and pattern persistence. The ICT lead sees filter health, device enrolment, policy rollout and anomalies.
Role-based views for Principal, ICT lead, Student Welfare Coordinator
Compliance posture, severity queue and pattern persistence
Filter health, enrolment, policy rollout and device anomalies
Shared view enables the IT × Safeguarding weekly handshake
For Colleges · Higher Education
Policy for the lab PC and the library terminal, not the student's personal laptop.
The colleges stack: SafeAnywhere Browser as the lab-PC default, the browser extension on library terminals, a lab-PC Guard profile at the OS layer, and a role-based dashboard for Dean, HOD IT, Librarian and Academic Integrity Officer. UGC, AICTE and NAAC inspection-ready.
SafeAnywhere Browser on lab PCs
The mandated browser for computer labs and department-managed workstations. Blocks VPN installers, proxy pages, generative-AI misuse during exams, pirated-content sites and known malware vectors, before the page renders.
Install on lab-PC image; applies to every student login
AI-aware filtering tuned for college-age autonomy (not over-blocking)
Exam-mode policy for proctored test windows
No keystroke, chat, or academic-work content ever read
Library terminal extension
For library-shared workstations where IT runs Chrome, Edge, Firefox or Safari rather than replacing the browser. The extension layers the same filter and signal set onto the browsers your library already uses.
Chrome, Edge, Firefox and Safari supported
Session-scoped policy that resets between student logins
Download blocking for executables and torrent clients
Signals flow into the same unified dashboard
Lab-PC Guard profile
A device-level agent that applies only to institutional lab PCs, never a student's personal laptop or phone. Enforces policy at the OS layer so students cannot bypass the browser by opening another application.
Lab PCs and library terminals only (never personal devices)
Blocks unauthorised installs and VPN clients at the OS layer
Session logging for academic-integrity reviews
Policy applies per student login, so it follows the student across terminals
Dean + IT Head dashboard
One dashboard, role-based lenses for higher education. The Dean of Students sees student-welfare patterns. The HOD IT sees filter health and lab anomalies. The Librarian sees terminal-level activity. The Academic Integrity Officer sees exam-window compliance.
Audit trail for UGC / AICTE / NAAC inspection cycles
Get started
Book a walkthrough. One business day response.
Two forms, one for each audience. The right team receives it directly.
Campus safety modules
Beyond the browser: a complete campus-safety layer.
Facial-recognition attendance for staff, visitor management, intruder detection, bullying and ragging detection, bus and shuttle monitoring, exam proctoring. All built on the same privacy-first, ethics-driven foundation.
Schools + Colleges
Facial-recognition attendance (staff)
Touch-free attendance for teachers, lab assistants, hostel staff, security and administration. Prevents proxy attendance and manual manipulation. Children and students are never subject to facial recognition.
Touch-free attendance for staff and support roles
Prevents proxy attendance and manual manipulation
Real-time logs with full audit trail
Consent-driven: staff and visitors only, never children or students
Schools + Colleges
Smart visitor & vendor management
Recognition-based entry for parents, vendors, maintenance and contractors with purpose-tagged visits, time tracking and alerts for overstays or suspicious patterns. Works at school gates and college campus entry.
Recognition-based entry for visitors and vendors
Purpose-tagged visits with time tracking
Alerts for overstays or suspicious patterns
Comprehensive visitor logs for compliance reviews
Schools + Colleges
Intruder detection & access alerts
Real-time detection of unregistered faces at campus entry points, with instant alerts to the designated safety team. If a face isn't registered, it should not be inside.
Real-time detection of unregistered faces
Instant alerts to authorities and security teams
Optional escalation via app, SMS or email
Zero-tolerance posture for unauthorised access
Schools + Colleges
Bullying, ragging & unsafe-behaviour detection
AI-assisted video intelligence detects physical altercations, bullying patterns, ragging incidents and distress in corridors, hostels, common areas and buses. Pattern-level analysis; children and students are never individually profiled.
Instant alerts to designated staff (SWC in schools, Dean of Students in colleges)
Time-stamped incident clips for review
No continuous monitoring by humans
No automated discipline. Humans stay in control.
Schools + Colleges
Safe transport monitoring
Comprehensive monitoring inside school buses and college campus shuttles: fights, bullying, unauthorised entry, prolonged standing or dangerous movement, with optional driver alerts and route-linked logs.
Detects fights or bullying on buses and shuttles
Unauthorised entry detection
Alerts on prolonged standing or risky movement
Optional driver-alert integration
Incident logs linked to route and time
Schools + Colleges
Exam proctoring & secure assessments
AI-assisted proctoring (powered by wAnywhere.com) for online exams, hybrid classrooms and campus-based proctored assessments. Prevents cheating, screen recording and external AI misuse during the exam window.
AI-assisted proctoring engine
Prevents cheating, screen recording and external AI misuse
Teacher-certification and university-entrance programme support
Schools + Colleges
Privacy-first, ethics-driven design
No emotion scoring, no profiling of children or students, no automated punishment. Role-based access, strict retention controls. Facial recognition is consent-driven and used only for staff and visitors. Indian data residency by default.
No emotion scoring or profiling
No automated punishment. Humans stay in control.
Role-based access and strict data-retention windows
Indian data residency; DPDP Act 2023 compliant by design
Compliance posture
Inspection-ready for CBSE, ICSE, UGC, AICTE and NAAC.
DPDP Act 2023 compliance is architectural, not a feature. Indian data residency by default. Evidence packs produced on demand for your next inspection or accreditation cycle.
DPDP Act 2023
Operating as a Data Processor under the Act. Indian data residency, minimum-necessary processing, consent handling, breach-notification plumbing, 30-day access/erasure SLA.
Alignment with NCPCR circulars on online child safety; the Student Welfare Coordinator role is operationalised through the Monday handshake and weekly review.
Who uses it
Role-based lenses on one dashboard.
Same data, different seats. Pick your role to see what you'd actually use.
Role
Principal (school)
Compliance posture, severity queue, pattern persistence across the pupil roll; one-click DPDP evidence pack.
Digital safety that treats a pupil as a pupil and a student as a student.
The schools team and the colleges team each walk you through a tailored rollout. One business day response. No cost for the walkthrough or the first inspection-ready posture report.
Common questions from Principals, Deans, ICT leads and Librarians
Twelve questions covering product fit, DPDP compliance, UGC / AICTE / NAAC posture, rollout timelines and pricing.
What exactly does SafeAnywhere install on a school's devices?+
Three things, depending on the device. On school-issued devices and ICT lab PCs, students use the SafeAnywhere Browser as the primary surface. On school tablets and ICT lab PCs, the Guard app runs as a device-level agent (Android tablets and Windows lab PCs today; iPad launching soon) to extend policy and attention signals beyond the browser into every app on the device. On staff and BYOD laptops, a browser extension for Chrome, Edge, Firefox and Safari applies the same filtering rules without changing the browser.
What does SafeAnywhere install at a college or university?+
In colleges we deploy only on institutional devices: computer-lab PCs, library terminals, and department-managed workstations. The SafeAnywhere Browser is set as the lab-PC default; the browser extension sits on library terminals that already run Chrome, Edge, Firefox or Safari; the lab-PC Guard profile enforces policy at the OS layer so students cannot bypass by opening another application. We deliberately do not install on students' personal laptops or phones. Colleges serve adults; the policy applies to institutional computing, not personal devices.
What does the Principal / Dean / ICT dashboard show?+
One unified dashboard with role-based lenses. The Principal (schools) or Dean of Students (colleges) sees compliance posture, severity queue and pattern persistence. The ICT lead or HOD IT sees filter health, device enrolment, policy rollout and anomalies. The Librarian sees terminal-level activity. The Academic Integrity Officer sees exam-window compliance. All roles read the same underlying data, so the weekly IT and Safeguarding (schools) or IT and Dean of Students (colleges) handshake is a 10-minute conversation about the data, not a reconstruction of it.
Is SafeAnywhere DPDP Act 2023 compliant?+
Yes, by design. SafeAnywhere operates as a Data Processor under the DPDP Act 2023; the school or college is the Data Fiduciary. All personal data processed through SafeAnywhere is held in Indian data residency; cross-border transfers happen only with your explicit consent and under the Act's provisions. Processing is minimum-necessary by architecture; we never read messages, keystrokes, academic work or chat content. Breach notification plumbing, access and erasure endpoints, and documented retention windows ship built-in. Your legal counsel is the right next step for mapping the operational posture onto the specific statutory obligations your institution is subject to.
How does SafeAnywhere support UGC, AICTE and NAAC accreditation cycles for colleges?+
Colleges increasingly need evidence of digital-safety and academic-integrity governance in UGC, AICTE and NAAC accreditation cycles. SafeAnywhere's dashboard produces inspection-ready evidence packs: lab-PC fleet health, filter effectiveness, exam-window compliance records, academic-integrity signal logs and incident response trails. We are not an accreditation body; we provide the operational artefacts that accreditation reviewers increasingly ask to see.
Does SafeAnywhere help with ragging detection in college hostels?+
Yes. The bullying, ragging and unsafe-behaviour detection module uses AI-assisted video intelligence to flag physical altercations, aggressive-motion patterns and distress signals in hostels, corridors and common areas. Alerts route to the Dean of Students and designated anti-ragging committee members with time-stamped clips. No continuous human monitoring; no automated discipline. The module operates on pattern-level analysis, not individual profiling.
How does SafeAnywhere protect children and students without invading their privacy?+
Privacy-first, ethics-driven design is architectural, not a policy choice. We never read messages, keystrokes, chat content, photos or academic work. Behaviour detection operates on pattern-level signals, not identification of individuals. Facial recognition is consent-driven and applies only to staff and visitors, never to children (schools) or students (colleges). All data processed in India by default. Humans retain full control over any response action; no automated discipline is ever taken.
Which school boards and higher-education frames does SafeAnywhere support?+
On the schools side: CBSE, ICSE, IB, Cambridge, and all Indian state boards. The product is board-agnostic; the DPDP compliance posture, the Student Welfare Coordinator role support, and the Principal-ICT weekly handshake rhythm are the same across boards. On the higher-education side: UGC-governed universities, AICTE-approved engineering and management colleges, autonomous institutes, and NAAC-accredited institutions. Role mappings adjust to local structure.
Can SafeAnywhere coexist with the school's or college's existing filter or UTM?+
Yes. SafeAnywhere is a browser-and-device-level control layer that operates independently of network UTM filters. Many institutions run both: the UTM handles network-wide blocklist enforcement, and SafeAnywhere handles application-level filtering, device-level policy, attention signals, incident response and the dashboard that unifies the picture. The two are complementary, not competing.
What's the typical rollout timeline?+
A typical school rollout runs in a two-week window: week one for ICT lead walkthrough, device-image updates and Principal / Student Welfare Coordinator onboarding; week two for pupil-device enrolment and the first weekly review cycle. A typical college rollout runs 2 to 3 weeks: lab-PC image updates and library-terminal extension deployment in week one; Dean / HOD IT / Librarian dashboard training in week two; the first inspection-ready posture report in week three. The schools team or colleges team walks you through the exact plan for your institution.
Does SafeAnywhere support exam proctoring for board exams, university exams and placement tests?+
Yes. The exam proctoring module (powered by wAnywhere.com) supports CBSE / ICSE board-exam mock proctoring, university semester-exam proctoring, placement-cell assessments, teacher-certification programmes and online entrance tests. It prevents cheating, screen recording and generative-AI misuse during the exam window; it integrates with the SafeAnywhere Browser's exam-mode policy so the lab-PC environment is locked down for the duration of the test.
How much does SafeAnywhere cost for schools and colleges?+
Pricing is per-student per-year, scaled to institution size and the modules you adopt. There is no cost for the initial walkthrough or the inspection-ready posture report. Fill in the enquiry form for your audience and the schools or colleges team will send a quote within one business day.