URL Filtering rules define which sites you can access in your organization. The URL Filtering policy is composed of the selected sites and the mode of operation applied to them.
Note: SmartEndpoint does not support the new capability. It is only supported for web users.
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Select the URL Filtering mode of operation.
Prevent - Currently supported only in Hold mode. The request to enter a site is suspended until a verdict regarding the site is received.
Detect - Allows access if a site is determined as malicious, but logs the traffic.
Off -URL Filtering is disabled.
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Select the categories to which the URL Filtering policy applies.
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Go to Web & Files Protection > Advanced Settings > URL Filtering > Categories.
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Select the required categories.
Note: For each category, click Edit to see the sub-categories you can select.
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Click OK.
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Optional: Select specific URLs to which access is denied.
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Select the Enable Network URL Filtering checkbox if you want Endpoint Security to verify and filter all the URLs accessed by an application or a process.
Otherwise, URL filtering is applied only to the URLs accessed through a browser.
The selected mode of operation now applies to the selected categories.
The user can access any site which was not selected in one of the categories or which was not blacklisted.
You can Allow user to dismiss the URL Filtering alert and access the website - This option is selected by default. This lets you access a site determined as malicious, if you think that the verdict is wrong. To do this, go to Advanced Settings > URL Filtering.
