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Working with Content Gateway
Administrator Help | Forcepoint Web Security | v8.5.x
Related topics:
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Content Gateway Analysis
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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 software component that provides high-performance web proxy services for Forcepoint Web Security deployments. Content Gateway is also used as a proxy by Forcepoint DLP and Forcepoint Email Security solutions.
With Forcepoint Web Security, Content Gateway provides:
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Real-time content analysis 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 analysis 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 Forcepoint URL 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 Forcepoint Security Manager with information about Filtering Service connections to Content Gateway
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Is used to populate the Web > Settings > General > Content Gateway Access page, and makes it possible to launch the Content Gateway manager from within the Security Manager

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