Surf Control 5.5 manual HOW IT Works, VCA in Evaluation Mode

10 CUSTOM CATEGORIZATION

Introduction

INTRODUCTION

Custom categorization uses SurfControl’s Virtual Control Agent™ (VCA) technology. The VCA evaluates unknown Web destinations, reading and analyzing content page by page. It then uses cutting-edge artificial intelligence algorithms to study and classify each Web page into one of the SurfControl Web Filter categories. This allows sites initially shown as ‘Uncategorized’ in the Monitor to be categorized more meaningfully.

HOW IT WORKS

1The VCA collects a representative number of pages and analyzes their content.

2The VCA’s Neural Network compares the page and site with other sites in the SurfControl Web Filter categories.

3It then puts the site into the category that it most resembles. For more details on SurfControl’s categories, see "Category Object" on page 67.

THE VCA IN EVALUATION MODE

If you are using Web Filter in evaluation mode, none of the custom categorization changes made by the VCA will be stored to the database. You can perform a categorization run and view the results, but these will not be saved to the database.

118 Administrator’s Guide SurfControl Web Filter v5.5