Mcafee Web Gateway Web Filtering Service - McAfee SG310 Administration Manual

Firewall menu options
Access control
Once you have received your purchase confirmation, you can enable McAfee Web Protection Service on
your UTM Firewall device. Doing so overrides any parent proxy settings you have set on the Main Access
Control tab. For more information, refer to the McAfee Web Protection Service Product Guide and the
application note, Configuring McAfee UTM Firewall for McAfee Web Protection Service, available from the
KnowledgeBase at mysupport.mcafee.com.
To enable the Web Protection Service on your UTM Firewall device:
From the Firewall Menu, select Access Control > Web Service
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Figure 219 Web Service tab
Select the Enable checkbox.
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Enter your Organization ID and Authentication Key in the respective fields.
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Click Submit.
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For more information about Mcafee Web Protection Service, see the McAfee Web Protection Service Product
Guide.

McAfee Web Gateway web filtering service

McAfee ® Web Gateway (formerly Webwasher
All new web filtering subscriptions are for the McAfee Web Gateway service. You can purchase McAfee Web
Gateway web filtering as an add-on feature, with or without the reporting option. After the purchase, you
receive a certificate and private key to upload into the UTM Firewall appliance. The certificate identifies the
appliance to the McAfee Web Gateway servers and must be unique to each appliance. For information on
activating add-on features, see
The McAfee Web Gateway URL filtering service on the UTM Firewall appliance is for the URL filtering (and
reporting if applicable) feature only. Advanced McAfee Web Gateway features include anti-malware,
antivirus, anti-spam, SSL scanner, and IM and peer-to-peer security. If you or your organization want to
use the advanced features of McAfee Web Gateway, you need to purchase a standalone McAfee Web
Gateway appliance to use in conjunction with the UTM Firewall appliance. For more information about
McAfee Web Gateway, visit www.mcafee.com.
How McAfee Web Gateway works with the UTM Firewall
There are several McAfee Web Gateway servers installed around the world, dedicated to providing URL
filtering services to the UTM Firewall appliances, record activity and forward it to a reporting server if a
reporting license has been purchased. The UTM Firewall appliance connects to the closest server based on
IP addresses mapped to a geographic region.
When a user makes a request to access a URL on the Web, the request is routed to the UTM Firewall
appliance. The appliance sends the URL request on to the McAfee Web Gateway service. The McAfee Web
Gateway services returns a categorization for the requested URL to the appliance. The appliance compares
the categorization to the blocked and allowed categories configured on itself and then acts accordingly. If
the category is allowed, the user can view the URL they requested. If not, the user receives a message that
their request failed validation. The appliance can cache category information for URLs to improve
performance and avoid excessive traffic to the McAfee Web Gateway service.
The basic steps for configuring and using McAfee Web Gateway web filtering are:
McAfee UTM Firewall 4.0.4 Administration Guide
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Activating a feature.
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