Content categorization categorizes content from URLs that are not in the Websense Master Database and from sites with dynamic content, as identified by Websense Security Labs. Analysis returns a category for use in policy enforcement.

Tunneled protocol detection analyzes traffic to discover protocols tunneled over HTTP and HTTPS. Such traffic is reported to Filtering Service for protocol policy enforcement. Analysis is performed on both inbound and outbound traffic.

Security threats: Content security analyzes inbound content to find security threats such as malware, viruses, phishing, URL redirection, web exploits, proxy avoidance, and others.

Security threats: File analysis can apply as many as 3 methods of inspection to detect security threats.

Websense Advanced Detection to discover malicious content, such as viruses, Trojan horses, and worms, returning a threat category for policy enforcement.

Traditional antivirus (AV) definition files to find virus-infected files.

Websense ThreatScope Analysis uploads suspicious files to a cloud-hosted sandbox for analysis and emails an alert to the administrator when a file is found to contain malicious content.

Rich Internet applications, such as Flash files, to detect and block malicious content.

FTP files to detect and block malicious content.

Outbound security provides 2 types of outbound analysis. The first performs outbound content analysis that mirrors your inbound Security Threats content analysis and file analysis configuration. The second performs data theft analysis, looking for and blocking outbound custom encrypted files, password files, and other sensitive data.

The Content Categorization and Scanning Sensitivity control allows you to tune the Content Categorization and Content Analysis sensitivity thresholds (Advanced options).

For large, streaming, or slow transactions, the Content Delay Handling option provides some control over how long to wait before releasing a portion of buffered content to the client (Advanced options).

The Scanning Timeout, File Size Limit and Content Stripping Advanced Options apply to all traffic transiting the proxy (Advanced options).

On the Settings > General > Account page

On the Settings > General > Policy Servers page, after selecting a Policy Server instance to edit.