TRITON - Web Security Help, Version 7.7 - Websense

Refine Filtering PoliciesYou can use TRITON - Web Security to change the category assigned to a site. Sitesthat have been added to a new category are called custom URLs or recategorizedURLs. Use the Policy Management > Filter Components > Edit Categories >Recategorize URLs page to add sites to a new category.Make changes to existing recategorized sites on the Edit URLs page.This functionality allows you to:Apply more precise filtering to sites that are not in the Websense MasterDatabase.By default, these sites are grouped into the Miscellaneous\Uncategorizedcategory.Filter sites differently than their Master Database category. Sites can be added to:• A different Websense-defined category• Any custom category (see Creating a custom category, page 265)Ensure that a site recently moved to a new domain is filtered appropriately,especially if users are still being sent to the new URL via an HTTP redirect.A recategorized URL is not blocked by default. It is filtered according to the actionapplied to its new category in each active category filter.ImportantIf a site is recategorized into a permitted category, and laterbecomes infected with malicious code, as long as Securitycategories are blocked, user requests for that site areblocked.For instructions to change this behavior, see PrioritizingSecurity Risk categorization, page 270.When you recategorize sites:Enter each URL or IP address on a separate line.• If a site can be accessed via multiple URLs, define each URL that can be usedto access the site as a custom URL to ensure that the site is permitted orblocked as intended.• When recategorized URLs are filtered, the URL is not automatically matchedto its equivalent IP address. To ensure proper filtering of the site, specify bothits URL and IP address.Include the protocol for any non-HTTP site. If the protocol is omitted, Websensesoftware filters the site as an HTTP site.For HTTPS sites, also include the port number (https://63.212.171.196:443/,https://www.onlinebanking.com:443/).Websense software recognizes custom URLs exactly as they are entered. If theSearch Engines and Portals category is blocked, but you recategorizeTRITON - Web Security Help 269