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URL filtering and categorization

URL filtering and categorization

- [Instructor] Let's now look at URL filtering and categorization with Cisco WSA. We've looked at this briefly using our blacklist discussion in regard to access policies. If we choose our web security manager at the top and under the web policy subsection we can go again to our access policies area. Here in this instance, we're going to see a global policy a single global policy in place and that is the default with a new deployment. If we look under the URL filtering section we can click under that column and that's going to bring us to our global policy area where we can see many different categories listed here by the way, Cisco provides documentation in regard to these filtering categories in their white papers for the WSA. So that allows you to understand exactly what each category means and what each category might include. This is all informed by Cisco Talos Intelligence and it uses a real time categorization…

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