How to block or allow the existing categories

Overview

I am here because, I have created my all categories from self-service portal (or) from custom categorization from safesquid interface. Now I want to Manage the created categories.

Example:

I have created my categories like whitelist, blacklist, trustedwebsites, Internalwebsites

Now I need to use these categories in Access Profiles to take the appropriate Action on these websites

Block the blacklist category

Allow whitelist category

bypass HTTPS for trustedwebsites

bypass Authentication for Internalwebsites

Prerequisites

Make sure that sscore section is enabled. And the categorization engine is loaded successfully. You can check this from SafeSquid Statistics page from the interface.

Read more about SafeSquid Statistics Page

Setup Appropriate Action on Categories

Access The SafeSquid User Interface

Click on Configure, you will see below page

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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