How To - Configure WebHow
Filter
Policy
To - Configure
Web Filter Policy
Applicable Version: 10.00 onwards
Overview
Web Filter Policies allow you to control Internet access of users or groups of users. Using these
policies, you can block or allow specific URLs or an entire category of websites.
Cyberoam’s webcat database contains millions of websites grouped into categories like “Games”,
“DatingAndMatrimonials”, “Cricket”, “CrimeandSuicide”, etc. Allowing or blocking any particular
category allows/blocks all websites falling under that particular category. This reduces the effort on
part of the administrator to create policies for each individual website.
This article describes how you can block access to websites belonging to a particular category.
Prerequisite
Web and Application Filter Module Subscribed.
Scenario
Create and apply a Web Filter Policy such that it denies access to all the websites falling under
“Games” web category.
Configuration
You must be logged on to the Web Admin Console as an administrator with Read-Write permission
for relevant feature(s).
Step 1: Create Web Filter Policy to deny “Games” web category
Go to Web Filter > Policy > Policy and click Add to add a Web Filter Policy, with the following
parameters:
How To - Configure Web Filter Policy
Parameter Description
Parameter
Value
Description
Name
Block_Games
Name to identify the Policy. Duplicate names are not
allowed.
Template
Allow All
Select a template if you want to create a new policy
based on an existing policy and want to inherit all the
categories restrictions from the existing policy.
Enable Reporting
Enable
Enable to generate Internet usage reports for all the
users.
Download File Size
Restriction
0
Specify the file size (in MB) in the textbox to configure the
maximum allowed size of file to be downloaded.
Here we have specified ‘0’ for No Restriction.
How To - Configure Web Filter Policy
Click OK to create policy.
Step 2: Add Rules to Policy
Go to Web Filter > Policy > Policy and Select Block_Games policy created in Step 1.
How To - Configure Web Filter Policy
Click Add to add rules to the policy with the following parameters:
Parameter
Value
Description
Category Type
Web Category
Category
Games
HTTP Action
Deny
Select Action for HTTP traffic.
HTTPS Action
Deny
Select Action for HTTPS traffic.
Schedule
All the Time
Select the Schedule for Categories
selected.
Select Category Type for which rule is to
be added.
Select Category for which rule is to be
added. Multiple categories can also be
selected.
How To - Configure Web Filter Policy
Click Add to add the Rule.
How To - Configure Web Filter Policy
Step 3: Apply Policy to Firewall Rule or User/User Group
Firewall Rule
You can apply the policy through a Firewall Rule such that it is applied on all traffic that hits on that
rule. To create a Firewall Rule, go to Firewall > Rule > Rule and click Add. As shown below, apply
the Policy created in step 1.
Click OK to create the Firewall Rule.
How To - Configure Web Filter Policy
User/User Group
You can apply the Web-Filter policy to individual users or user groups. Here, as an example, we have
applied the policy on a user named ‘John Smith’. To apply the policy on an individual user, go to
Identity > Users > Users and select the user on whom policy is to be applied. As shown below, apply
the Policy created in step 1.
Click OK to apply policy on the user.
Similarly, you can apply the policy on a Group. To apply the policy on a group, Go to Identity >
Groups > Groups and select the group on which the policy is to be applied. As an example, we have
applied the policy on the group ‘Sales and Marketing’.
How To - Configure Web Filter Policy
Click OK to apply policy on the group.
The above configuration shows how to create and apply a Web Filter Policy.
Document Version: 1.1 – 27 March, 2013