Cisco Cisco Web Security Appliance S360 User Guide
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Cisco IronPort AsyncOS 7.7.5 for Web User Guide
Chapter 17 URL Filters
Warning Users and Allowing Them to Continue
Logging and Reporting
When you redirect traffic, the access log entry for the originally requested website has an ACL tag that
starts with REDIRECT_CUSTOMCAT. Later in the access log (typically the next line) appears the entry
for the website to which the user was redirected.
starts with REDIRECT_CUSTOMCAT. Later in the access log (typically the next line) appears the entry
for the website to which the user was redirected.
The reports displayed on the Reporting tab display redirected transactions as “Allowed.”
Redirecting Traffic in the Access Policies
Step 1
Navigate to the Web Security Manager > Access Policies page.
Step 2
Click the link under the URL Categories column for an Access Policy group or the Global Policy Group.
Step 3
In the Custom URL Category Filtering section, click Select Custom Categories.
Step 4
In the Select Custom Categories for this Policy dialog box, choose “Include in policy” for the custom
URL category you want to redirect.
URL category you want to redirect.
Step 5
Click Apply.
Step 6
Click the Redirect column for the custom category you want to redirect.
Step 7
Enter the URL to which you want to redirect traffic in the Redirect To field for the custom category.
Step 8
Submit and commit your changes.
Warning Users and Allowing Them to Continue
In addition to using the Web Security appliance to block traffic to certain websites, you can also use it
to warn users that a site does not meet the organization’s acceptable use policies and allow them to
continue if they choose. You might want to warn users and allow them to continue if your organization
wants to discourage its users from accessing certain sites, but does not want to or is not allowed by law
to block access to those sites.
to warn users that a site does not meet the organization’s acceptable use policies and allow them to
continue if they choose. You might want to warn users and allow them to continue if your organization
wants to discourage its users from accessing certain sites, but does not want to or is not allowed by law
to block access to those sites.
You can warn users and allow them to continue using one of the following methods:
•
Choose the Warn action for a URL category in an Access Policy group.
•
Enable the site content ratings feature and warn users that access adult content instead of blocking
them. For more information on the site content ratings feature, see
them. For more information on the site content ratings feature, see
When users access a URL that is configured to warn and continue, they initially see an IronPort
notification page with a warning about accessing sites of this category or content. The end-user URL
filtering warning page includes the following elements:
notification page with a warning about accessing sites of this category or content. The end-user URL
filtering warning page includes the following elements: