Cisco Cisco Web Security Appliance S160 User Guide

custom URL categories. The URL filtering engine compares the URL in a 
client request to included custom URL categories before predefined URL 
categories. 

The custom URL categories included in the policy appear in the Custom URL 
Category Filtering section.

Choose an action for each custom and predefined URL category. 

describes each action. 

Use Global 
Setting

Uses the action for this category in the global Decryption 
Policy group. This is the default action for user defined policy 
groups.

Applies to user defined policy groups only.

When a custom URL category is excluded in the global 
Decryption Policy, then the default action for included custom 
URL categories in user defined Decryption Policies is 
Monitor instead of Use Global Settings. You cannot choose 
Use Global Settings when a custom URL category is excluded 
in the global Decryption Policy. 

Pass Through

Passes through the connection between the client and the 
server without inspecting the traffic content. You might want 
to pass through connections to trusted secure sites, such as 
well known banking and financial institutions.

Monitor

The Web Proxy neither allows nor blocks the request. Instead, 
it continues to evaluate the client request against other policy 
group control settings, such as web reputation filtering.