DNSFilter Helps MSP Drive Stronger Security Outcomes in the Education Space

Long-time DNSFilter customer sees content filtering as foundational to security offering

WASHINGTON, D.C. – March 27, 2025 – DNSFilter announced today that anykey, Switzerland’s leading Apple-focused Managed Services Provider (MSP) for the education sector, has improved productivity and security for students and staff by implementing DNSFilter for content filtering and threat blocking. With DNSFilter, anykey centrally manages filtering policies across thousands of devices for more than 400 schools. 

Founded in 2011, anykey provides end-to-end IT services, from device management, wireless networking, identity and access management and cloud services to security and content filtering. That includes managing more than 150,000 devices provided by schools to their students. The company faced growing demands for comprehensive content filtering and robust security measures amid evolving compliance mandates. It needed a solution that would work seamlessly in Apple environments and support their business model. 

anykey began using DNSFilter in 2019, drawn to its responsive support, AI-driven filtering and MSP-focused innovation. As a member of DNSFilter’s Customer Advisory Board, anykey has helped shape key features, including the new Roaming Client Management experience, which gives them centralized oversight of their 150,000 device endpoints. This automated, scalable, centralized management reduces administrative workload significantly.

DNSFilter helped anykey reduce administrative workload significantly. Now, students can only access appropriate educational content from their school-issued devices, and harmful or non-compliant websites are blocked. Additionally, anykey can now enable schools to block internet access during nighttime hours, when students should be asleep. After initial success with content filtering, anykey has expanded its work with DNSFilter to include threat-blocking. 

The Canton of Zurich, Switzerland’s largest administrative district, recently published a set of 14 immediate steps for school security that specifically call for implementing DNS filtering. Because of its work with DNSFilter, anykey was already ahead of the curve, providing its customers with a government-recommended solution even before the guidelines were released. 

Tobias Linder, co-founder and technical director, anykey, said: “We are proud to be DNSFilter customers, and we appreciate their iterations on the product. Before the new Roaming Client Management release, we had to trust devices were properly enrolled without real confirmation. Now, we can instantly see which devices are online, protected and up-to-date, making troubleshooting and central management far more efficient. As schools face increasing cybersecurity risks, security has taken on larger importance for us, and DNSFilter is an essential part of how we reduce attack surfaces across entire school networks.”

Ken Carnesi, CEO and co-founder, DNSFilter, said: “As a long-term customer, anykey has had a voice in making our product better and has pressure-tested new features to provide feedback. It’s an example of how we listen to the customer and ensure their voice is heard in what we do and the partnership we’ve developed. We will continue to innovate with an MSP-first mindset and incorporate customer feedback to ensure they can respond to their clients’ changing needs.”

About the company:
DNSFilter is making the Internet safer and workplaces more productive by blocking malicious and unwanted content at the DNS layer. DNSFilter resolves upwards of 170 billion daily queries—200 million of those queries are blocked cyber threats. With 79% of attacks using Domain Name System (DNS), DNSFilter provides the world's fastest protective DNS powered by AI, blocking threats an average of 10 days faster than traditional threat feeds. Over 40,000 organizations trust DNSFilter to protect them from advanced cyber threats and unwanted content.

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