How To's
Install SafeSquid Secure Web Gateway using SafeSquid Appliance Builder
Problem To set up your Secure Web Gateway appliance, you need to first install the Linux operating system on your provisioned hardware. Next, harden the system by implementing best security practices and partition the disks appropriately. Afterward, ...
SafeSquid generated certificate expired -Your connection is not private
When using HTTPS inspection SafeSquid checks whether the public key and private key for websites exist on the disk. If the public keys and private keys for websites do not exist, SafeSquid will create them and store them locally for reuse. These ...
How to change log level to debugging mode
logs are used to hunt issues and crashes and get a clear understanding of system behaviour. Logs enables you to analyse issues with ease. SafeSquid provide such logs which are locate at /var/log/safesquid/native/safesquid.log and ...
Deploying SafeSquid in Microsoft Azure
Deploying SafeSquid in Microsoft Azure Overview This document provides a comprehensive, step-by-step guide for installing SafeSquid on a Microsoft Azure server using a cloud-init script. This document covers the entire installation process, including ...
Activate a SafeSquid Instance
Overview You must Activate a SafeSquid Instance before using it to access the web. Prerequisites To access the SafeSquid GUI, you need to configure your browser to use a proxy. You must register on SafeSquid website to get activation key. if you ...
How To configure Proxy In a Browser
Overview SafeSquid Proxy Service has a browser based intrinsic WebGUI, that allows users to configure, and manage its various features. To access the Interface, you must configure your web-browser to use the SafeSquid® proxy server. You should be ...
How To
Overview This collection of How To articles provides a step-by-step guide to implement SafeSquid, and optimally use its various features. Install SafeSquid Secure Web Gateway You can setup your secure web gateway using different installation ...
How to Setup Configuration Sync in a SafeSquid Proxy Cluster
Overview The lack of configuration synchronization in proxy clusters presents notable challenges. Inconsistencies across proxy servers without automated sync can lead to errors, system vulnerabilities, and inefficient performance. Each server ...
SafeSquid Subscription Expired (Your subscript of SafeSquid Secure Web Gateway has expired)
SafeSquid will now exhibit subscription expired promo if Safesquid instance has no active subscription. Subscription expire promo is activated once the SafeSquid distribution license has expired. Also, you can check your subscription validity from ...
Setting up A DNSBL service for Safesquid
Setting up A DNSBL service for Safesquid You could be frequently discovering websites that your enterprise may choose to block for all users. Various SOC service providers supply lists of websites that may be malignant or inappropriate. You could add ...
YouTube Embedded video Test document 1
Below is the youtube embedded video from safesquid channel.
Implementing SafeSquid on Cloud
Background The SafeSquid proxy server is a native x86_64 Linux network service application. The software is distributed as a “tar-ball”package. It can thus be deployed on an appropriate Linux based host platform. Efficient performance installation ...
Installing SafeSquid on Various Linux Distributions Using SafeSquid's tar file
Installation of SafeSquid without SAB using tar file. SafeSquid is a versatile web filtering software that can be installed on various Linux operating systems, including but not limited to Red-Hat, SuSe, and CentOS. This flexibility allows users to ...
Expert Installation
Language Selection English is the default selected language. Change it only, if you are not very comfortable with English. Country Selection Select your country as the location. This selection is related to ensure correct time settings of the system. ...
A comprehensive guide on how to integrate Windows Active directory
Active Directory (AD) services are crucial for network security and efficient user management within an organization. High Security: Active Directory services provide layered security, encompassing various policies and permissions to ensure security ...
Standard Installation of SafeSquid using SAB in a Virtual Machine with DHCP
Standard Installation The Standard Installation Mode is recommended, and the setup uses mostly pre-configured sub-choices. Select Standard install and continue. Network Autoconfigure DHCP Press Yes If you want to use your network DHCP to ...
Standard Installation of SafeSquid using SAB in a Virtual Machine with Static IP address
Standard Installation The Standard Installation Mode is recommended, and the setup uses mostly pre-configured sub-choices. Select Standard install and continue. Network Autoconfigure Static Addressing If a static IP is required, select no to manually ...
Standard Installation of SafeSquid using SAB for Baremetal Install with DHCP
When booting from a USB drive ensure the system is set to boot from the USB drive. This might require changing the boot order in BIOS or UEFI settings. Standard Installation The Standard Installation Mode is recommended, and the setup uses mostly ...
Standard Installation of SafeSquid using SAB for Baremetal Install with Static IP address
When booting from a USB drive ensure the system is set to boot from the USB drive. This might require changing the boot order in BIOS or UEFI settings. Standard Installation The Standard Installation Mode is recommended, and the setup uses mostly ...
Register and Generate your Activation Key
Why Register Before downloading the SafeSquid installer(s), you MUST register to create your account on SafeSquid's self-service portal at - https://key.safesquid.com/. Registration is free and requires just a few minutes. Your registered account ...
How to enforce YouTube restricted mode
Overview YouTube has countless hours of entertainment, videos, and TV shows to keep you and your network users entertained. Apart from all these some content is inappropriate (like pornography and potentially offensive content) for some users. Most ...
YouTube API Integration With SafeSquid To Allow Specific YouTube Videos
Overview YouTube is a video-sharing website which provides a wide variety of videos. YouTube video content categories organize channels and videos on YouTube website. YouTube has lots of videos for entertainment like comedy, music, movies, web ...
Verify the Master Slave Configuration
What does Master/Slave mean? In computer networking, master/slave is a model for a communication in which one device or process (known as the master) controls one or more other devices or processes (known as slaves). Once the master/slave ...
Validate IP addresses and the systems are reachable on the network
Getting Started - The Preparatory Steps To keep the discussion easy to understand and replicate, we will use an example, and set out the process in ordered sequence of steps. We will also include steps for validating to ensure if any of the steps may ...
Use Statistics To View SafeSquid Stats
Use Statistics to View SafeSquid Stats Here's an interesting feature that SafeSquid provides the users to get some useful information regarding SafeSquid statistics. Statistics is one of the key features of SafeSquid where we can have a brief idea of ...
Upgrade SafeSquid To A Newer Version
Overview SafeSquid SWG upgrade is a newer version of the SafeSquid that offers a significant change or major improvement over your current version. Upgrade your SafeSquid to the latest version which may consists of bugfixes and enhancements. When you ...
Unblock the website which is blocking with text analyzer
Overview Prerequisites Identification Unblock Access SafeSquid interface Go to Real time content security in configure page Go to Text analyzer and edit global section Keep False in Enabled field
Transparent Redirection With SafeSquid And WCCP
GOAL Are you looking for Transparent redirection of traffic? So, no user needs to set proxy settings in browsers. Load balance traffic & scaling up? Add more proxies to serve traffic and distribute traffic across multiple proxies. Service assurance ...
Testing your Kerberos SSO authentication setup
Configure Authentication in SafeSquid’s Access Restrictions SafeSquid’s WebGUI is used to create/modify policy configuration. We can access the WebGUI from any authorized system, depending on Access Restrictions configuration section (by default ALL ...
Split the load between different ISPs
SafeSquid has an option in 'Network Settings', to add new interface for outgoing connection. This is useful in networks where you need to split the load between different ISPs. It can also be useful to switch different ISPs due to slow net connection ...
Setup Your Secure Web Gateway on your preferred Linux distribution
Overview SafeSquid Appliance Builder (SAB) is an optimized version of Ubuntu Linux, optimized for easy setup of your secure web gateway. The SAB installs the Ubuntu Linux operating system, downloads and deploys the SafeSquid for Linux installation ...
Setup transparent proxy on SafeSquid
Overview Internet is an essential part of most company’s business infrastructure. However, it can be a risky place, but there are ways to minimize risks so your business can thrive. Analysts encourage organizations to deploy a secure web gateway ...
Setup Reporting Module
Advantages of Reporting Module over the default Dashboard: Reduced Data Processing time More detailed reports Hour-wise reports More filtering options Deeper data analysis An automated data mining engine Exportable reports to PDF and Excel formats ...
Setup Monit for SafeSquid Monitoring
Installation and configuration of Monit Service Monit will automatically get installed when you install SafeSquid Appliance Builder (SAB) to setup your secure web gateway. You can check status of monit service using command: /etc/init.d/monit status ...
Setup Maximum limit on the Upload size
Overview This can be achieved using SafeSquid limits feature, there you will find an option to set up the limit on the Download size for users. Prerequisites If you are downloading files from HTTPS websites, then make sure that HTTPS Inspection in ...
Setup Maximum limit on the Download size
Overview This can be achieved using SafeSquid limits feature, there you will find an option to set up the limit on the Download size for users. Prerequisites If you are downloading files from HTTPS websites, then make sure that HTTPS Inspection in ...
Setup HTTPS Inspection
Overview Over the couple of years, the internet is changing its dimensions in terms of security. The web is shifting towards HTTPS, to deliver secure services to users. “The main motivation for HTTPS is authentication of the visited website and ...
Setup Download Speed At Which the files need to download
Overview This can be achieved using SafeSquid limits feature, there you will find an option to set up the limit for downloading speed for users. Prerequisites If you are downloading files from HTTPS websites, then make sure that HTTPS Inspection in ...
Setup Cloud Restore
Overview A disaster can strike at any time, it may due to network or system failure. Any outage may lead to losing your configuration and SSL certificates. Process to rework and resume your last configuration is very much time-consuming unless you ...
Setup Authentication
Authentication in SafeSquid Proxy Authentication: Proxies can serve as access-control devices. HTTP defines a mechanism called proxy authentication that blocks requests for content until the user provides valid access-permission credentials to the ...
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