Introduction

Deploy Websense remote filtering software to filter Internet requests from machines outside the network. By default, remote filtering software monitors HTTP, HTTPS, and FTP traffic.

Remote filtering software is an optional feature, available to Websense Web Filter, Websense Web Security, Websense Web Security Gateway, and Websense Web Security Gateway Anywhere customers.

Note  In Websense Web Security Gateway Anywhere deployments, hybrid (in-the-cloud) filtering can also be used to filter Internet requests from users outside the network.

Remote filtering software includes the following components:

Remote Filtering Client is installed on each machine that will be filtered when used outside the network. This client is configured to communicate with the Remote Filtering Server.

Remote Filtering Server resides inside your firewall, and acts as a proxy to Websense Filtering Service.

All communication between Remote Filtering Client and Remote Filtering Server is authenticated and encrypted.