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Secure WIFI Access Through Active Directory Infrastructure And SafeSquid Captive Portal
Business challenge Securing Unmonitored and Unsecured WIFI networks is a challenge that many organizations are looking forward to address. As increased demand for BYOD (bring your own device), WIFI is common and minimum facility required in every ...
Safe Search is not working
You have enabled all the entries required for Safe Searches, but you are able to access the in appropriate content through search engines, then follow the below steps to Troubleshoot Test your configuration once. All required entries must be enabled. ...
Restrict any desk
Access the SafeSquid interface Go to configure page Go to Real time content security Configuration on anydesk Set proxy on anydesk application If authentication is enabled you have to specify Username and Password on any desk application. Anydesk ...
Reporting (Dashboard)
Overview SafeSquid gives you the ultimate visibility into your activities with detailed real-time reporting. SafeSquid Dashboard allows you to get real-time traffic running on your network (Internet Usage intelligence) as well as bandwidth ...
Redirecting Rules For SafeSquid Captive Portal
Enable IP forwarding in SafeSquid Server Enable forwarding in /etc/sysctl.conf, by changing below line net.ipv4.ip_forward=0 to net.ipv4.ip_forward=1 To reload settings run below command sysctl -p To flush the IP tables rules iptables -F -t nat ...
Redirect One Website To Another Website
Access the SafeSquid User Interface SafeSquid comes with sample policy, helping you in policy creation. In SafeSquid sample policies " Enable interface access through authentication " policy is already present. You have to just enable those policies, ...
Provide Access To The Block Listed Website
Overview When you are browsing through SafeSquid, one of the websites you are accessing is blocked due to configuration in SafeSquid. But you don't know why the website is blocked. Now you need to allow that website by changing the configuration in ...
Profiled Internet Access
Overview In modern days the importance of security in organizations is vital and managing security products is become common practice. Everything will go well until and unless some engineer makes a mess of the setup. It will be a nightmare for ...
Prefetch embedded images
Overview The Prefetching feature can be used as an 'internet accelerator'. It allows virtually any file referenced in HTML to be pre-fetched, not just images, and cached. Prefetching is a good way to improve retrieval time. It reduces resource ...
Master-slave configuration is not working
Troubleshooting Verify the Master Slave Configuration (LINK) Verify the synchronization of defined sections on Slave server (LINK) Verify the Configuration on Master Server if authentication is Enabled (LINK)
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 ...
Manage VPN settings
Access the Self-Service portal Login with your valid credentials Go to Manage VPN Set URL (FQDN of SafeSquid Server) Your SafeSquid server FQDN and click on Set URL 'Example: 'My SafeSquid server FQDN is: sabproxy.safesquid.test You can verify your ...
Manage SafeSquid Instances From Self Service Portal
Manage SafeSquid instances From Self Service Portal
Manage Keyword Signatures using Self Service portal
We're going to assume that you've an active SafeSquid account with atleast one Activation Key. If this is not completed yet, you can register at https://key.safesquid.com/ Login to the Self-Service Portal by visiting https://key.safesquid.com/on your ...
Manage Disk Space On SafeSquid Server
Overview Manage disk space on SafeSquid server. When any of the partitions that are used by SafeSquid are full, it results in undefined behavior. This may lead to something like, SafeSquid failing in processing the connections. Prerequisites Give ...
Manage Categories From Self Service Portal
Overview You can see all the custom websites/Domains single/multiple as well as their respective custom single/multiple category from here. As soon as you click on any particular custom category their respective websites/Domains should display. Also, ...
Mail Integration with Reporting Module
Prerequisites Before you get started with this guide, you have to complete some basic steps. First, we'll assume that you have an access of SafeSquid server. We are also assuming that you've Reporting Module set up. You can follow this guide to Setup ...
Kerberos SSO Authentication Setup
The main aim/objective of this particular authentication is that the user doesn’t have to enter its credentials the software will automatically detect from which user group does the user belong and will set the restrictions accordingly. Overview ...
IP based authentication
Overview Almost all the proxy applications restrict access based on the IP address. Most of the organizations network administrator would always prefer to block access to a specific address or range of addresses that he/she suspect belong to ...
Integrate OpenLDAP With SafeSquid
Overview Here I am integrating my Active Directory with following information. IP Address: 192.168.247.10 Domain of Active Directory: safesquid.net Base Dn : dc=safesquid,dc=net User Name: cn=admin,dc=safesquid,dc=net See more about Integrate LDAP ...
Integrate openLDAP for simple authentication
Overview Here i am integrating my Active Directory with following information. IP Address: 192.168.247.10 Domain of Active Directory: safesquid.net Base Dn: dc=safesquid,dc=net User Name: cn=admin,dc=safesquid,dc=net See more about Integrate LDAP ...
Integrate AD
Overview After successfully installing AD on the machine, we need to set up our AD. In this document we will show you how to set up Active Directory and add new users/ groups/ computers in our AD. After that we will have to link our LDAPAdmin with ...
Integrate AD or OpenLDAP with SafeSquid
Overview Active directory information is used to authorize/authenticate the users and computers which are part of your network. Active directory objects are mainly a set of attributes like domain, Organization Unit (OU), user, group, subnet etc. In ...
Integrate Active Directory For SSO Authentication
Overview In given example we are integrating an Active Directory for SSO authentication. Your Active directory (AD) FQDN: ad.safesquid.test (You should get your AD FQDN from this location : AD ( Start > Control Panel > System > Full Computer name)) ...
Integrate Active Directory For Simple Authentication
Overview Here I am integrating my Active Directory with following information. Active Directory FQDN : ad.safesquid.test IP Address : 192.168.221.1 Domain of Active Directory : safesquid.test Base Dn : dc=safesquid,dc=test User Name : ...
Integrate a Linux Host with a Windows AD for Kerberos SSO authentication
Overview Kerberos Authentication support is particularly useful for Enterprise networks that have a Microsoft AD based Domain controller. By properly configuring the necessary Kerberos related factors, your enterprise Internet users can optionally ...
Importing Your SSL Certificate Into Internet Explorer or Chrome
Overview You would need to install SafeSquid SSL certificate in IE or Chrome browsers to allow users to seamlessly browse HTTPS sites. This article will help you with installation of SafeSquid SSL Certificate on IE or Chrome browser. This may vary ...
Importing Your SSL Certificate Into Firefox
Overview You would need to install SafeSquid SSL certificate in Firefox to allow users to seamlessly browse HTTPS sites. This article will help you with Installation of SafeSquid SSL Certificate into Mozilla Firefox browser. Go to Application Menu ...
Identify the filter name using SafeSquid Detailed logs from the interface
Overview Finding the filtername from the SafeSquid User Interface Access SafeSquid interface Go to the Detailed logs Search for your blocked website Identification of filter name
Identify the Filter by using SafeSquid Extended Logs or Detailed Logs
Overview Find the filter name which is causing the blocking of the specific website or Application. Once you find the reason for blocking then you can take an action to allow the website or application Prerequisites You must have knowledge of ...
How To Setup Your Secure Web Gateway With SafeSquid Appliance Builder
Overview We can use SafeSquid Appliance Builder (SAB) to setup your secure web gateway. SAB enables you to transform a standard Intel hardware architecture for servers, into a hardware web security appliance, or setup a virtual appliance on any ...
How to remove one website from Specific Category
Here I am removing www.rediff.com from BLOCK LIST category 1. Search the website in custom categories, it will provide the list of categories in which the website is categorized. 2. Remove from the specific category from the list. I am removing from ...
How to enforce SafeSearch
Overview As name indicates SafeSearch is a feature that acts as an automated filter of pornography and potentially offensive content. In SafeSquid SWG SafeSearch aims to: Provide parents and teachers with tools to help them choose what content their ...
How to configure reverse proxy
Overview A proxy server is an intermediary server that forwards requests for content from multiple clients to different servers across the Internet. A reverse proxy server is a type of proxy server that typically sits behind the firewall in a private ...
How to block virus uploads and downloads
Client Scenario You might download a file containing a virus during an e-commerce session. To protect your network from these threats,SvScan is the inbuilt module in SafeSquid that protects users against malware. ClamAV and ICAP are secondary servers ...
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, ...
How to block inappropriate content by using text analysis
Overview Use this section to prevent the users from viewing pornographic image content. This section allows you to block inappropriate images by analyzing the graphical content of an image, in real time. Prerequisites HTTPS Inspection should be ...
How to allow specific website through category
Client Scenario Stark tech is having 200 employees. Stark tech distributes all 200 employees into different 'User Groups'. Now Stark tech blocked all the websites for defined 'User Group' say 'General Users' Stark tech challenges are: General users ...
How to add single website to category
Overview This document helps, how to add single website to existing category or new category Example: Here I am going to add www.safesquid.com to an existing category -whitelist as well as adding it to the new category internalwebsites Prerequisites ...
How to add Multiple Websites to category
Overview This document helps, how to add multiple websites to existing category or new category Example: If you have one or two websites to add to the category, then you can add them one by one manually. If you have a greater number of websites, then ...
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