Web Filtering Report; Best Practices (Browser Protection) - McAfee TSA00M005PAA - Total Protection Service Product Manual

Using Browser Protection and Web Filtering

Web Filtering report

Web Filtering report
Use the Web Filtering report, available from the SecurityCenter, to track Internet usage and
browsing activity on your network.
This report lists visits to websites and attempts to access websites for which you have
configured policy options to regulate access. Use this report to view detailed information about
the specific sites, their safety ratings and content categories, the computers that attempted to
access them, and the action taken by browser protection.
This report is available only with versions of the browser protection service that include the
web filtering module.
See also
Viewing browsing activity on page 116
Information that browser protection sends to McAfee on page 107

Best practices (browser protection)

To develop an effective strategy for guarding against web-based threats, we recommend
that you proactively track browsing activity on your network and configure policy options
appropriate for your users.
1
Check your status emails or the SecurityCenter website for an overview of your account's
status. Ensure that browser protection is installed and enabled on all computers.
2 Check the Web Filtering report regularly to see what sites users are visiting, their safety
ratings, and their content categories.
3 Using the Web Filtering report:
• Determine whether users are visiting sites that should be added to an Exceptions
list. Authorize sites that are important to productivity to ensure that users can always
access them. Prohibit sites that do not comply with company policy or contribute to job
performance goals to ensure users cannot access them.
• Note the number of visits to red, yellow, and unrated sites. If appropriate, configure
policy options to block sites or site resources that have particular safety ratings.
• Note the content categories for sites being visited. If appropriate, configure policy
options to block sites containing particular types of content.
• Note which computers are visiting which sites. If appropriate, configure different policies
for computers that should and should not be able to access particular sites or content.
4
Customize a message to display on client computers that attempt to access a site you have
blocked.
5
To ensure that all computers are protected against web-based threats, configure policy
options to enable browser protection via policy and prevent users from disabling browser
protection on their computers.
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