Block specific website through SafeSquid

Block specific website through SafeSquid

Client Scenario

Stark tech is having 200 employees. Stark tech distributes all 200 employees into different 'User Groups'. Now Stark tech wants to blocked specific websites for defined 'User Group' say 'MANAGERS'
Stark tech challenges are:
All Managers should not allow to access specific websites e.g. Facebook.com. When managers access those websites should get blocked template.
Suppose website like 'google' (search engine) is blocked for defined User groups. The users of that user group should not be able to access google.com, google.co.in, google.co.uk.

Solution

The SafeSquid Custom Category feature is a solution that proposed for Stark tech.
The solution is 'blacklist' mentioned websites from Custom Category and apply Do not bypass action to it.
Suppose you want to block 'facebook.com'.
Create Custom Category: blacklist and apply Action: Do not bypass So that you should get block template.
Note:
If you blacklist 'google' it will match google.com, google.co.in, google.co.uk
But if you blacklist 'google.com' then google.co.in will not match.

Prerequisites

HTTPS Inspection should be enabled in SafeSquid. If not enabled, you can check our document - How to enable HTTPS Inspection
Note: Even though HTTPS inspection is disabled it will work. But it will not show the block template.
Enable SSqore as TRUE which is under application setup (By default SSqore should be Enabled as TRUE)

Access the SafeSquid interface

Go to configure page

click on configure in safesquid interface

Go to Categorize Web-Sites under Custom Settings

going to Categorize Web-Sites under Custom Settings
click on search after entering the website
showing default categories of the entered website

Add your website to the custom category

adding website to the desired category
showing success message after successfully adding the website to the category

Go to Access Profiles in Restriction Policies

going to access profiles to create a new policy
selecting the website category in categories parameter
selection of category
selecting action as Do_Not_Bypass so that safesquid will use applied profiles to block website
section of action Do_Not_Bypass
giving unique name to the policy
saving the created policy by clicking on save
clicking on global save to save it globally
for blocking multiple websites, list out the websitess in a .txt file and upload in categorize web-sites section
example of the txt file
clicking on upload to create a category of those uploaded websites




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