Safeguarding doesn't end at the school gate. And it doesn't end at the browser. Students are using generative AI tools every day, on your network, on your devices, often unsupervised. ChatGPT, Google Gemini, Microsoft Copilot, Grok, DeepSeek, Meta AI and more are now as common in schools as Google Search once was. But for most schools, those interactions are completely invisible. You can see the sites they visit. You can't see what they're asking. RepLog changes that.
What RepLog Monitors:
Generative AI prompts: Real-time capture and keyword matching across ChatGPT, Gemini, Copilot, Claude, Grok, DeepSeek, Meta AI, and Canva AI.
Search activity: Google, Bing, DuckDuckGo, Yahoo, Baidu, AOL, Yandex, and more.
YouTube and Vimeo: Search terms and video names, not just URLs.
Web filtering, DNS, IPS, antivirus, application control, and SSL inspection: Comprehensive network visibility in one place.
Clear, actionable safeguarding intelligence delivered through a secure, cloud-hosted platform.
Already a Switchshop Customer? Here’s What You Need to Know
MySSP Customers: Your Platform Has Already Been Updated
As a MySSP customer, your platform has already been updated to include expanded safeguarding capabilities, including real-time monitoring of generative AI prompts across ChatGPT, Gemini, Copilot, Claude, Grok, DeepSeek, Meta AI, and Canva AI. No action is required on your end.
The above capabilities are part of RepLog, the reporting and safeguarding intelligence layer built into your MySSP platform, and everything below is now active on your account. Your designated safeguarding lead will automatically receive alerts when concerning keywords are detected across any of these new channels with no additional configuration required.
What we’d recommend: take a few minutes to familiarise yourself and your DSL with the new monitoring categories in your dashboard. If you’d like a walkthrough of what’s changed and how to make the most of the new capabilities, your account manager is on hand to help. Log into your portal to complete this action or contact your account manager via the contact button.
Existing RepLog Customers: One Step to Activate
RepLog is ready, and so is your AI prompt monitoring, expanded search coverage, and YouTube and Vimeo visibility. There is just one step needed before these features can be enabled.
One important step before you can activate: Because RepLog uses Fortinet’s App Control rather than web filter detection, your firewall will need a small configuration update before the new features can be switched on.
Want to do it yourself? We’ve put together a clear, step-by-step configuration guide that walks you through exactly what’s needed, download it, and follow the instructions at your own pace.
Prefer to hand it over? Our certified Fortinet engineers can take care of the configuration on your behalf. Simply contact your account manager who will be happy to discuss and arrange this for you. Contact your account manager via the contact button.
Whichever route you choose, we’ll make sure your safeguarding team has full visibility from day one.
Built for the people who need it most
Designated Safeguarding Leads & Officers
Real-time alerts when concerning keywords are detected across search, AI prompts, and video platforms, as well as automatic flagging of high-risk website visits, including sensitive categories such as abortion, self-harm, and radicalisation-related content. A complete audit trail for investigations, reviews, and statutory compliance including KCSIE and Prevent.
The new DSL role in the Switchshop Customer Portal means designated leads can manage their safeguarding team directly, mapping student groups to specific officers, managing alert notifications and acknowledging events, all without involving IT.
IT Teams
Powered by Fortinet’s App Control, the same enterprise-grade technology trusted by organisations worldwide, now applied directly to your school’s safeguarding framework. Deeper and more accurate than web filter detection alone, RepLog works entirely within your existing Fortinet firewall, with all policies applied through your current infrastructure. No additional hardware, no new management overhead, and full local control retained by your IT team throughout.
Beyond safeguarding, RepLog also monitors and alerts on security events across your network, giving your IT team early visibility of threats, anomalies, and incidents that need attention.
Prefer to hand over the firewall configuration entirely?
RepLog is also available as a fully managed service, with Switchshop’s certified Fortinet specialists handling configuration, policy management, and ongoing optimisation on your behalf.
School Business Managers & Leadership Teams
A fully managed, subscription-based service with no hardware costs and no infrastructure overhead. Fortinet’s enterprise-grade security stack runs quietly in the background, delivering the protection and visibility your school needs without placing additional burden on your team. Clear, automated reporting supports governor and trustee oversight, Ofsted readiness, and statutory compliance, giving leadership teams confidence in their safeguarding approach without needing to be hands-on in the detail.
RepLog – What’s Improved?
RepLog provided filter-based detection across Google, Bing, and Yandex search. RepLog moves to Fortinet’s App Control, a significantly more powerful detection layer that now covers eight generative AI platforms including ChatGPT, Gemini, Copilot, and Grok, plus YouTube and Vimeo search and video visibility, and expanded search engine coverage including DuckDuckGo, Yahoo, and Baidu. Everything your safeguarding team needs, in one place, from the cloud.
Why RepLog
AI prompt monitoring: Real-time visibility of generative AI interactions, treated with the same safeguarding rigour as search.
IWF keyword integration: Dynamic keyword lists from the Internet Watch Foundation, Switchshop curated keywords and custom keywords.
KCSIE and Prevent aligned: Supports statutory safeguarding compliance for UK schools.
90-day log retention: Complete audit trail for investigations and compliance reviews.
Comprehensive safeguarding reports: including a consolidated weekly overview of high-risk and safeguarding-related website activity for nominated safeguarding officers, a weekly network threat report for your IT team, and user-specific reports detailing websites visited and keyword searches, delivered as required. Up to two additional customised reports can be specified at the start of the service, with further bespoke reports available thereafter.
DSL role & student-to-staff mapping: Granular control over which safeguarding officers receive which alerts, with catchall functionality ensuring no event is ever missed.
Event acknowledgement: Officers acknowledge events directly from the portal or email alert, with acknowledgements recorded and visible across the whole safeguarding team.
Backed by Fortinet expertise: Delivered by Switchshop, an Expert Engage Partner with ETSP and EPSP accreditations, an approved and trusted Fortinet delivery partner , and Public Sector Partner of the Year, one of 3 awards won over three consecutive years.
