Cisco Cisco Email Security Appliance C680 User Guide
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User Guide for AsyncOS 10.0 for Cisco Email Security Appliances
Chapter 16 Protecting Against Malicious or Undesirable URLs
Setting Up URL Filtering
Enable URL Filtering
You can enable URL filtering using the Security Services > URL Filtering page in the web interface or
the
the
websecurityconfig
command in CLI.
Before You Begin
•
Ensure that the requirements for the individual URL filtering features that you want to use have been
met. See
met. See
•
(Optional) Create a list of URLs that you want all URL filtering functionalities to ignore. See
.
Procedure
Step 1
Select Security Services > URL Filtering.
Step 2
Click Enable.
Step 3
Select the Enable URL Category and Reputation Filters check box.
Step 4
(Optional) If you have created a list of URLs to exempt from URL filtering when evaluating messages
for spam and malware, and from all content and message filtering, select that list.
for spam and malware, and from all content and message filtering, select that list.
This setting does not cause the message to bypass anti-spam or Outbreak Filters processing generally.
Step 5
(Optional) Enable Web Interaction Tracking. See
.
Step 6
Submit and commit your changes.
If you have met the applicable prerequisites, and you have already configured Outbreak Filters and
Anti-Spam protection, then you do not need to make additional configurations to benefit from enhanced
automatic detection of spam and malicious URLs.
Anti-Spam protection, then you do not need to make additional configurations to benefit from enhanced
automatic detection of spam and malicious URLs.
What To Do Next
•
To take action based on the reputation of URLs in messages, see
.
•
To use URL categories in content and message filters, for example to enforce acceptable use
policies, see
policies, see
.
•
To redirect all URLs in suspected spam messages to the Cisco Web Security proxy service, see
.
•
(Optional) To customize the appearance of end user notification page, see
.
•
Ensure that you receive alerts about issues related to this feature. See
, the release notes for your AsyncOS release, and
About the Connection to Cisco Web Security Services
URL reputation and category are provided by cloud-based Cisco Web Security Services.