What is meant by URL filtering?

What is meant by URL filtering?

URL filtering limits access by comparing web traffic against a database to prevent employees from accessing harmful sites such as phishing pages. Traditionally, companies have used URL filtering as a tool to prevent employees from accessing unproductive sites.

What are three key features URL filtering?

URL filtering helps you control the network behaviors in the following aspects:

• Access control to certain category of websites, such as gambling and pornographic websites.
• Access control to certain category of websites during the specified period.
• Access control to the website whose URL contains the specified keywords.

What is URL filtering in checkpoint?

Check Point URL Filtering controls access to millions of web sites by category, users, groups, and machines to protect users from malicious sites and enable safe use of the Internet. URL Filtering employs UserCheck technology, which educates users on web usage policy in real time.

What is URL filter Palo Alto?

Palo Alto Networks URL Filtering allows you to monitor and control the sites users can access, to prevent phishing attacks by controlling the sites to which users can submit valid corporate credentials, and to enforce safe search for search engines like Google and Bing.

What is URL filter list?

URL filtering blocks all HTTP and HTTPS access to a list of websites or portions of web sites. You can specify a short list of websites to block (up to 1000 blacklist and 1000 whitelist rules), and/or subscribe to the blacklist service offered by Kaspersky.

How do I enable URL filtering in checkpoint?

Enabling Application and URL Filtering on a Security Gateway

1. In R80 SmartConsole go to the Gateways & Servers view.
2. Double-click a Security Gateway object.
3. Select General Properties.
4. In the Network Security tab, select Application Control or URL Filtering, or both, as necessary.
5. Click OK.
6. Install the Policy.

What is the difference between DNS filtering and web filtering?

The main difference is that URL filtering blocks URLs, while DNS filtering blocks DNS queries. Another way to put it is that URL filtering blocks webpages, while DNS filtering blocks domains. Because URL filtering is more granular than DNS filtering, it may also require more maintenance and customization.

How are URL categories used in URL filtering?

Category-based URL filtering enables you to craft security policy and block or allow web traffic based on assigned URL categories. Each website defined in the URL filtering database is assigned a URL category. Here are a few ways to leverage URL categories:

How is URL filtering used in policy enforcement?

Match traffic based on URL category for policy enforcement. If the goal is for a specific policy rule to apply only to specific web traffic categories, add the category as match criteria when creating the policy rule. URL filtering is enabled through local database lookups, or by querying a master cloud­-based database.

When to use blocked or allowed URL categories?

Blocked or allowed URL categories: When actions are determined not on a site-by-site basis, but rather by the category encompassing multiple sites. This could include categories for malware or phishing sites, innocent but distracting sites, or questionable sites.

How to leverage URL categories in a policy?

Here are a few ways to leverage URL categories: —You can create a URL Filtering profile that specifies an action for each URL category and attach the profile to a policy. Traffic that matches the policy would then be subject to the settings in the profile.