Our History

Watchdog, a global specialist in Internet filtering, was originally founded in NZ in 1999. As the provision of web content filtering services was unavailable in New Zealand (NZ), Watchdog built a business providing Internet filtering and connectivity services to residential, business and education customers. The Ministry of Education has awarded Watchdog contracts to provide web and email filtering as well as hardware firewall services to state and integrated schools. They also provide low socio-economic homes with filtered internet connections.

Watchdog developed its own tunneling technology enabling cost-effective implementation of general Internet filtering to businesses and schools. Watchdog tunnelling technology integrates well with any ISP connection allowing general filtering technology to be made available as a hosted service external to the ISP’s network.

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