Content Filtering And Optimizing Scans; About Content Filtering And Scans - NETGEAR UTM5EW-100NAS Appliance Reference Manual

Content Filtering and Optimizing Scans

This chapter describes how to apply the content filtering features of the UTM and how to optimize
scans to protect your network. This chapter contains the following sections:
•

"About Content Filtering and Scans"

• "Configuring E-mail Protection" on page
• "Configuring Web and Services Protection" on page
• "Setting Web Access Exceptions and Scanning Exclusions" on page
About Content Filtering and Scans
The UTM provides very extensive Web content and e-mail content filtering options, Web
browsing activity reporting, e-mail anti-virus and anti-spam options, and instant alerts via e-mail.
You can establish restricted Web access policies that are based on the time-of-day, Web addresses,
and Web address keywords. You can also block Internet access by applications and services, such
as instant messaging and peer to peer file sharing clients.
Note: Traffic that passes on the UTM's VLANs and on the secondary IP addresses that
you have configured on the LAN Multi-homing screen (see
Home LAN IPs on the Default VLAN" on page
and malware threats.
Note: For information about how to monitor blocked content and malware threats in real-
time, see
For information about how to view blocked content and malware threats in the
logs, see
on this page.
"Monitoring Real-Time Traffic, Security, and Statistics" on page
"Querying Logs and Generating Reports" on page
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