Defining Resources > Sources and destinations > URL categories

URL categories

 

Related topics: Configuring URL categories and user names

If you are using Websense Web security solutions (Websense Web Security, Websense Web Security Gateway, or Websense Web Security Gateway Anywhere), use this screen to select the URL categories that may be the source or destination of sensitive information.

In your policies, you can use these categories to define rules for Web channels. For example, you may define a rule that credit card numbers cannot be posted to known fraud sites. (Please note that Data Security does not monitor URL categories on endpoint Web channels.)

URL categories are imported from the Websense category database. (You can view them, but you cannot change them.) Periodically click Update Now to reconnect with the database and update your category list.

Note that Websense Data Security supports predefined and custom categories. In your policy, you define whether these categories are authorized or unauthorized destinations of sensitive information.

Note that if you are using Websense Web Security Gateway or Web Security Gateway Anywhere, more than one category can be identified for a single URL: one for the static URL category—such as blogs— and one for the dynamic content, such as gambling if the blog is about gambling. Websense Web Security looks up static URL categories and the gateway module analyzes dynamic content. Both categories are reflected in your incident reports.

 

Important  To take advantage of Websense URL categories, you must configure linking. See Configuring URL categories and user names for more information.

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