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Installing Websense Content Gateway
Installing Websense Content Gateway
Deployment and Installation Center | Web Security Solutions | Version 7.8.x
 
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Web Security Gateway and Web Security Gateway Anywhere, v7.8.x
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Deployment
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Installation
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Online Help
Websense Content Gateway (Content Gateway) is a Linux-based, high-performance Web proxy and cache that provides real-time content analysis and website classification to protect clients from malicious content while enabling access to safe content.
Content Gateway offers:
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Categorization of dynamic websites
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Categorization of new and unclassified websites
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Optionally, HTTPS and FTP content analysis, in addition to HTTP
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Enterprise Web proxy caching capabilities
Content Gateway is a required component of Websense Web Security Gateway and Web Security Gateway Anywhere. In a software-based deployment, Content Gateway must be installed on a Linux machine. The machine should be dedicated to running Content Gateway.
 
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In a Websense-appliance-based deployment, when Web Security Gateway (Anywhere) is configured, Content Gateway is already installed.
Web Security Gateway and Web Security Gateway Anywhere subscribers get the following features, in addition to the standard Websense Web Security features:
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Security analysis that inspects incoming Web pages to immediately block malicious content, such as phishing, malware, viruses, and more.
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Advanced file analysis that applies both advanced detection techniques and traditional antivirus scanning to discover and block infected and malicious files users are attempting to download.
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Outbound content and file analytic options that mirror inbound analysis. As well as Data Theft Protection options that look for and block custom encrypted files, password files, and files containing sensitive or suspicious data.
See the "Scanning options" section of the Web Security Help.
When installed as part of Websense Web Security Gateway Anywhere, Content Gateway also works with Websense Data Security Management Server to prevent data loss over web channels.
Content Gateway can be used as an explicit or transparent proxy.
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In an explicit proxy deployment, client applications, typically browsers, must be configured to send requests to Content Gateway.
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In a transparent proxy deployment, client requests are intercepted and redirected to Content Gateway by devices in the network that run WCCP or that perform policy-based routing.
If you enable SSL support, the content of HTTPS pages is decrypted, examined for security issues, and, if appropriate, re-encrypted and forwarded to the destination.
When you run Content Gateway with Websense Data Security to inspect HTTPS and FTP traffic, you must enable SSL support. See Content Gateway Manager Help for a complete description of SSL support.
Deployment
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Proxy deployment options
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User authentication
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HTTPS content inspection
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Handling special cases
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Explicit proxy deployment
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Transparent proxy deployment
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Chaining Content Gateway with other proxies
Installation
These instructions are for installing Content Gateway software on a server.
 
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In a Websense-appliance-based deployment of Websense Web Security Gateway or Web Security Gateway Anywhere, Content Gateway is already installed on the appliance and these instructions do not apply.
Complete the following procedures.
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Installing Web Security components to work with Websense Content Gateway
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Preparing to install Websense Content Gateway
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Installing Websense Content Gateway
Online Help
Select the Help option in the Content Gateway manager to display detailed information about using the product.
 
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Default Microsoft Internet Explorer settings may block operation of the Help system. If a security alert appears, select Allow Blocked Content to display Help.
If your organization's security standards permit, you can permanently disable the warning message on the Advanced tab of the Tools > Internet Options interface. (Check Allow active content to run in files on My Computer under Security options.)

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