Cisco Cisco Web Security Appliance S160 Guia Do Utilizador

The Application Visibility and Control (AVC) engine lets you create policies to control application 
activity on the network without having to fully understand the underlying technology of each 
application. You can configure application control settings in Access Policy groups. You can block or 
allow applications individually or according to application type. You can also apply controls to particular 
application types. 

Using Access Policies you can:

Control application behaviors

Control the amount of bandwidth used for particular application types

Notify end-users when they are blocked

Assign controls to Instant Messaging, Blogging and Social Media applications

Specify Range Request settings

To control applications using the AVC engine, perform the following tasks:

Enable the AVC engine

Set Controls in an Access Policy Group

Limit bandwidth consumed by some 
application types to control congestion

Allow instant messaging traffic, but disallow 
file sharing using instant messenger