Sophos Website Management
You can extend the website filtering provided by Sophos Central.
In Website Management, you can use a website list to tag websites. This puts them in groups, which are like custom categories. You can then use them in Web Control policies in Sophos Central Admin to control these websites for certain users.
If you think Sophos has put a website in the wrong category, you can ask us to change it.
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- Click Add in the upper right of the page.
The Add Website Customization dialog is displayed.
- Enter sites.
Entries in the website list can be single URLs, full domains, top-level domains (TLDs), IP addresses, or CIDR ranges.
Note Managing websites using IP addresses only controls browser-based access. It does not block other applications or interact with rules for a local firewall. - Select a Category Override if you want to use a different category to the one that Sophos has applied to the sites you have entered. This changes the category for all your users.
For example, you have a Web Control policy that allows the Shopping category but blocks the News category. If you add www.amazon.com to the website list and select News as the category override, www.amazon.com Aiseesoft free 3gp converter for mac download. is blocked for all your users. However, other shopping websites are still allowed.
- Under Add Tags, type one or more tag names to associate tags with the sites you have entered.
Tags can be used when creating web control policies in Sophos Central Admin.
- Enter text in the Comments text box.
It can be helpful to include information about tags you have created and categories you have overridden for troubleshooting policy issues in the future.
- Click Save.
The Web protection feature is part of Sophos Anti-Virus and is included with all Sophos Central licences that include this product. This feature is designed to prevent threats from reaching the web browser
Web control is focused on giving the administrator control over web browsing with specific differences between User Policies and Server Policies
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They block the access to websites that are deemed to be malicious by SophosLab. This is achieved by endpoint performing a real-life lookup to the infrastructure of Sophos servers to classify the sites
Guide to configuring Web Filtering on Sophos Central
- Login to Sophos Central Admin by Admin account (Create a Sophos Central account)
- Global Settings -> Website Management to create list website which you would like
- Click Add Button to create a list of URLs, you can choose block or allow tags with that URLs -> Click Save
- Continue choose Endpoint Protection -> Policies -> Base Policy – Web Control
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- In Tab USERS/COMPUTERS, you can customize users or computers which you would like or not to apply web policy
- In Tab SETTINGS, enable Control sites tagged in Website Management
- Next, Click Add New at Control sites tagged in Websites Management, choose list of URL which you created before and choose action (Allow, Warn or Block) -> Click Save
- Finally, Click Save to finish web filtering process and waiting for synchronizing with Client
- Result displays user’s access have been blocked
- If you want to use schedule, you have not to use Base Policy, you have to create a new Policy to use schedule for your Policy
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