Cisco Cisco Web Security Appliance S380 Guía Del Usuario
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Using the Web Security Appliance
This chapter contains the following topics:
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How the Web Security Appliance Works
The Web Proxy and the L4 Traffic Monitor are independent services. They are
enabled and configured separately to provide the highest level of protection
against a broad range of web-based malware threats.
enabled and configured separately to provide the highest level of protection
against a broad range of web-based malware threats.
The Web Proxy and L4 Traffic Monitor use data that is stored in filtering tables to
evaluate and match URL request attributes such as domain names, and IP address
path segments with locally maintained database records. If a match occurs,
Access Policy settings determine an action to block or monitor the traffic. If no
match occurs, processing continues.
evaluate and match URL request attributes such as domain names, and IP address
path segments with locally maintained database records. If a match occurs,
Access Policy settings determine an action to block or monitor the traffic. If no
match occurs, processing continues.
Web Proxy
The Web Security appliance Web Proxy supports the following security features:
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Policy groups — Policy groups allow administrators to create groups of users
and apply different levels of category-based access control to each group.
and apply different levels of category-based access control to each group.