8e6 Technologies ProxyBlocker manual View the Current Selections

GLOBAL ADMINISTRATOR SECTION CHAPTER 3: LIBRARY SCREEN

View the Current Selections

This window contains two list boxes:

•“No Weight” Categories - Populated with 8e6 supplied categories

•“Weight” Categories - Pre-populated by default with cate- gories 8e6 suggests you might want to use for this feature.

The contents in each list box, combined with the end user’s profile, help to determine what will appear in the log for the end user’s Internet activity.

Method for Weighting Library Categories

The order of operational precedence is: Always Allowed,

Blocked, and Pass.

In the event that an end user attempts to access a URL that exists in multiple categories, the highest operational prece- dence would be logged.

If a URL exists in a category that is Always Allowed, as well as a category set to be Blocked for that user, Always Allowed would be logged because it holds the highest oper- ational precedence.

However, if an end user attempts to access a URL set to be Blocked in several categories, the category with the highest weighting would be logged.

NOTE: If a URL exists in multiple un-weighted categories of the same operational precedence, the category logged would be the first one returned by the ProxyBlocker database. Since there is no precedence given, the order in which the category is returned would be random. While it is not necessary to weight all catego- ries, it is recommended that the categories considered a threat should be weighted according to your organization's threat assessment for each category.

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