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Working with Content Gateway
Web Security Help | Web Security Solutions | Version 7.8.x
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Working with Filtering Service
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Working with Policy Server
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Managing Content Gateway connections
Content Gateway is a Linux-only Websense software component that provides high-performance Web proxy services in Websense Web Security Gateway and Gateway Anywhere deployments. Content Gateway is also used as a proxy by Websense Data Security and Email Security Gateway solutions.
In Websense Web Security Gateway and Gateway Anywhere deployments, Content Gateway provides:
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Real-time content scanning and website classification to protect the network from malicious web content. This is especially valuable for Web 2.0 sites, whose multiple sources and dynamic nature limit the usefulness of static categorization.
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Advanced file scanning to discover and block infected and malicious files from being uploaded or downloaded
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Detection of inbound and outbound protocols tunneled over HTTP and HTTPS and apply protocol-based policy enforcement
Content Gateway works with Filtering Service to manage Internet requests based on both:
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Static categorization by the Master Database or custom URL definitions
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Dynamic recategorization resulting from content scanning and analysis
At installation, Content Gateway establishes communication with a Policy Server instance. This connection:
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Allows Policy Server to pass subscription key information to Content Gateway, mitigating the need to maintain keys in 2 management consoles
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Provides the Web Security manager with information about Filtering Service connections to Content Gateway
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Is used to populate the Settings > General > Content Gateway Access page in the Web Security manager, and makes it possible to launch the Content Gateway manager from within the TRITON console

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