PA - How To Configure And Verify URL Filtering Security Profile
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1.Using URL filtering to block outbound communication to known malicious URLs.
2.Reduction of the risk of infection from dangerous websites and protection of users
3.In PA Firewall URL filtering classifies and controls web browsing based on content.
Category: Predefined categories, both custom URL categories and external dynamic lists of type URL are displayed under Category.
Site Access: For each URL category, select the action to take when a user attemptsto access a URL in that category.
User Credential Submission:For each URL category, select the User Credential Submissions to
allow or disallow users from submitting valid corporate credentials to a URL in that category.
Check URL Category: Click to access the PAN-DB URL Filtering database, where you can
enter a URL or IP address to view categorization information.
Alert Allows access to web site but adds alert to URL log each time user accesses URL.
Allow Allows access to the web site but doesn’t log traffic.
Block Block access to the web site.
Continue Displays page to users that to warn them against continuing to access the page.
Override Displays a response page that prompts the user to enter a valid password in
order to gain access to the site.
Log container page only: Select this option to log only the URLs that match the content
type that is specified. Default: Enabled
Safe Search Enforcement: Select this option to enforce strict safe search filtering.
HTTP Header Logging: Enabling HTTP Header Logging provides visibility into the attributes included in the HTTP request sent to a server.
User-Agent :Web browser that the user used to access the URL.
Referer: URL of web page that linked user to another web page;
X-Forwarded-For: The header field option that preserves the IP address of the user who requested the web page