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Setting up a Browsing Security Strategy
Select the right policy options and features
See Evaluate policy settings with Observe mode under Configuring Policies .
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Ensure compliance, productivity, and security with frequent monitoring.
Run queries regularly. View results in reports or in monitors.
• Ensure that the SiteAdvisor Enterprise Plus client software is enabled on all computers
and can function properly (by using the Functional Compliance query).
• Check whether any sites or site resources, such as download files, that are required for
business are blocked.
• Check visits to sites that contain threats.
• Update policy settings to address any problems.
• Run a purge task occasionally to clear out the reports database.
See Using Dashboards, Monitors, and Reports and Configuring Policies .
Select the right policy options and features
When developing a browsing security strategy:
• Assess the security concerns and vulnerabilities that apply to your business.
• Carefully consider any domains and sites that must be accessible to your managed systems
and any that you would like to block.
• Decide which network browsing activities you need to monitor.
• Determine your most effective and efficient forms of monitoring.
Use this list to identify which product features can help meet your goals.
If this is your security or productivity goal...
Use SiteAdvisor ratings to control access to sites, download
files, or phishing pages.
Block particular sites or domains.
Ensure access to particular sites. Control access to
resources on these sites (such as download files). Track
visits to these sites and access of site resources.
Prevent data about intranet sites from being reported to
the SiteAdvisor website's servers.
Communicate to users why a site is blocked or how to
protect against threats on a site.
Control who can disable or enable the SiteAdvisor
Enterprise Plus client software.
Evaluate the effect of policy settings before they are
implemented.
Enter information on any proxy server needed for Internet
access.
Obtain information for and track activity on private domain
servers.
Obtain information for and track visits to non-private
domain servers.
Obtain information for and track each page accessed from
domain servers.
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McAfee SiteAdvisor Enterprise Plus 3.0 Product Guide
Use this feature...
Rating Actions policy
Prohibit List policy
Authorize List policy
Event Tracking policy
Enforcement Messaging policy
Disable/Enable policy
Observe mode (part of General policy)
Proxy Server (part of General policy)
Event Tracking policy
Event Tracking policy
Event Tracking policy
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