Different ways to rec categorize a website
at the heart of the Force point. Web security solution
is a robust web filtering component
that classifies known websites into predetermined
web categories
from these categories. Force point administrators
construct policies based on their individual
needs. In this video,
we will highlight the different ways a customer can
modify a website, static classification.
Specifically, we will cover two ways.
Customers can suggest website categorization
updates to force point labs by using
the site look up tool.
In addition, we will demonstrate methods
to override the force point classification
by creating a custom category specific
to your force point web security deployment
covering steps for both on premise as
well as cloud hosted environments.
First will examine the site look up tool
on the force point customer hub, select
the site look up tab
the account that you are signed in with on the force
point. Customer hub dictates the number
of reports you can submit each day
depending on your license level, you are entitled
up to 10,000.
If you only see the first level unlocked
your web session with the force point, customer
hub has likely expired and you simply need
to sign back in
to rec categorize a website in the text
box under the URL
clicking analyze will take you to the site,
look up result page.
If you require more information on the URL
categorization, click more details.
This will take you to the ace insight report
from here. You can suggest a different classification
to the category returned,
verify the website specified, still
matches the UL that you wish to request
an update to
use the suggest drop down menu and
select one of the categories,
fill out the comments box, explaining
why you recommend the category change.
You also have the option to add a colleague to the report,
but the email address must be of the same domain.
Then click submit
once submitted, the force point labs
team will investigate and evaluate your
request.
If the suggestion is deemed appropriate, the
categorization change will be performed in
a future URL database update
and will be rolled out to all customers.
However, if the labs team chooses not
to rec categorize the website at this time
or if your unable to wait for the next URL
database update,
consider taking immediate action by
overriding the URL database classification
with a custom category.
In the second half of this video, we will examine
the steps for adding a URL to a custom
category for both on premise and cloud
based web security deployments.
In addition to the predefined categories in your
URL database, you can define custom
categories.
Custom categories help provide more precise
policy enforcement and reporting for
your on premise, force point, web security deployment.
Sign into the force point, security manager
and navigate to Maine
policy management.
Filter components,
click edit categories.
Scroll down to the ad category button
from here, specify the category,
name, its description.
And if you wanna place it under a parent category,
next list the URL you one added
and specify the default action that best
suits your company. Policy.
Click, OK. To return to the edit categories,
page, click,
OK. Again to cash your category changes,
finally click, save and deploy
to implement the category change to your on
premise deployment.
Please note that you can create up to 100
custom categories this way on your on premise,
web security deployment. Remember
force point filtering software looks
for any custom ul definitions of a website
before consulting the URL database.
Therefore, the custom category you define
will override what would normally be found
when the filtering service consults the force
point URL database.
In our example, we created our custom
category for a single website for
bulk or regularly changing custom categories.
Consider using the Linux based management
API.
This optional installation allows you to
update API managed custom categories
by sending Jason information to the rest based
web service.
See the management API guide for more
information.
Once our update is saved and deployed, use
the URL category, look up tool inside
the force point security manager to verify
that the website is now associated with the newly
defined category.
This quick test validates that the update is
live. The
cloud web service categorizes websites
into built in categories to help you manage
your end users, web surfing,
the custom categories defined in web
policy management,
custom categories. These custom categories
are created at the account level and are available
to all policies within your organization
to create a custom category in cloud security.
Gateway. Click add,
assign a name to your new custom category.
Provide a description,
then click submit,
specify the associated host names.
IP addresses, range
and UL path.
Click a then
click, submit
your custom category can then be used in
the same manner as the force point categories
to construct your organizations web security
policies.
In our example, we just added one website
into the custom category.
However, if you wanna upload many sites,
the cloud service also supports bulk
upload via CSV import.
We can query the website category from within
the portal access, web
policy management
policies. Once our custom
category is replicated across the cloud clusters
under filtering test, enter the URL
we just specified for the custom category,
provide an email address from one of your
users to process the look up test.
You can then confirm the new categorization
is live within the filtering test results
pop up
force point. Security administrators rely
on website categorization to build
effective policies for their user population.
In this video, we examine
how customers can suggest URL updates
to the websites category via the site,
look up tool and how to override the force
point URL database classification with
a custom defined category. Alternatively,
instead of a custom category, force
point administrators can consider configuring
policy exceptions to allow access to
specific sites
for additional documentation in the space,
you can review the following resources.
Thanks for watching.
