Web Categories tab

Related topics:

Enabling SSL decryption

Policy enforcement actions

Exceptions

Filtering action order

Category list

The cloud service includes dozens of website categories (see Category list for more details). These categories are designed to help you apply policy to your organization's Web surfing. If a website has not previously been categorized, we assign it the "Unknown" category.


	Note Websites can exist in one standard category, but multiple custom categories.

Click the Web Categories tab to configure:

Whether to use SSL decryption. See Enabling SSL decryption.

Depending on your account, this may allow:

HTTPS traffic to be inspected to ensure the correct notification or authentication page is delivered to the end user

HTTPS traffic in categories that you specify to be analyzed for malware and other threats

The action you want the cloud service to take when users try to access websites in each of the categories. See Managing categories, actions, and SSL decryption.

If available for your account, when applying actions, you can also specify whether or not to use SSL decryption to analyze specific web categories.

If SSL decryption is enabled, a list of host names for which SSL decryption is not performed. See Bypassing SSL decryption for specific sites.