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Analyze The SafeSquid Logs
Overview Logs provide a timeline of events for the Linux operating system, applications and system, and are very useful and valuable troubleshooting tool when you encounter any problem. When any issue/problem occurs then system administrator will ...
Allowing Specific Page on Facebook
Overview Facebook is a social networking website that allows users to interact with other users in a multimedia environment on the Web. Facebook users can install and use applications to enhance their experience. Many organizations want to block ...
Allow Specific YouTube Channel and its Playlist
Client Scenario Ganpat University provides graduate programs to various colleges. Ganpat University distributes internet to their students. Ganpat University want to block entire www.youtube.com for their students, but wants some of the YouTube ...
Allow 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 blocked all the websites for defined 'User Group' say 'General Users' Stark tech challenges are: General users ...
Allow remote applications to particular users
Overview For security reasons you blocked all the traffic to all users. But some of the users in your network need to access remote applications. Using SafeSquid you can allow specific users in your network to access remote applications How it works? ...
Access The SafeSquid User Interface
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 ...
Allow Social Networking Sites during Lunch Hours
Overview Most of network administrators are able to access and track anything employees do on their computer. Most of the employees waste their time on social network sites. This can damage not only employment status, but employee’s reputation also. ...
Add SafeSquid server DNS entry in your Active Directory Server
Validate that IP of all our systems are resolvable by our DNS provider Here for example my Proxy Host name: sabproxy and my Domain: safesquid.test Add the Linux host name " sabproxy " as a New Host in the DNS server's configuration such that it's ...
Allow anydesk
Overview For security reasons you blocked all the traffic to all users. But some of the users in your network need to access remote applications. Using SafeSquid you can allow specific users in your network to access remote applications. How it ...
Advantages Of Custom Web Categorization
SafeSquid by default providing some website categories, you can use these categories for blocking of an inappropriate content For example, you want to block all social networking sites, you can directly choose category as socialnetworks then block ...
Adding users using SafeSquid interface for authentication
Adding users using SafeSquid interface for authentication If you don't have Active Directory (AD) server to integrate with SafeSquid LDAP, but you want authenticate users by assigning usernames and passwords to your users.
Activation failure
Issues I uploaded my activation key, still SafeSquid UI is showing Failed to set Subscription details After uploading the activation key, I am getting the template on browser proxy server refusing connections Unable to see subscription details on ...
Access Through SafeSquid
Overview Some remote applications like Remote desktop application (Anydesk and TeamViewer), Download managers, etc. get automatically block if HTTPS inspection is enabled. You don't require any policy or configuration for blocking purpose. Access ...
Accessing business applications through SafeSquid
Accessing business applications through SafeSquid There have been several instances where it has been reported that certain applications which the organizations use doesn't work through SafeSquid. This article describes a generalized way of ...
Access The Self Service Portal
Overview Access your self-service portal with your registered credentials to manage SafeSquid’s cloud-backed features, like Custom Web Categorization, VPN support, Configuration Backup, Subscription management and SSL certificates generation. ...
Access Remote Desktop Applications Through SafeSquid
Case 1: There is no direct Internet access to the client Machine A)HTTPS ENABLED Any desk : Any desk is not able to connect to the remote server through proxy Team viewer : Team viewer is not able to connect to the remote server through proxy ...
Download SSL Certificate From Interface
Overview This article will show download of SafeSquid SSL certificate from the interface. Prerequisites You must have already generated your certificates from the Self-Service Portal. If not see our document Setting up SSL certificates from Self ...
Install SafeSquid Secure Web Gateway on VMware EXSi server
Overview vmware ESXi is an enterprise-class, type-1 hypervisor developed by vmware for deploying and serving virtual computers. As a type-1 hypervisor, ESXi is not a software application that is installed on an operating system; instead, it includes ...
Make a Bootable SafeSquid Secure Web Gateway USB device Using balenaEtcher
Overview A bootable USB drive streamlines the SafeSquid installation process by offering a fast, reliable, and portable alternative to traditional CD/DVD media, overcoming the absence of optical drives in modern computers. Its versatility and speed ...
How to Make a Bootable SafeSquid USB device Using Rufus
Overview A bootable USB drive streamlines the OS installation process by offering a fast, reliable, and portable alternative to traditional CD/DVD media, overcoming the absence of optical drives in modern computers. Its versatility and speed ...
Generating certificate which is required for HTTPS Inspection
Importance of Certificates/ Why HTTPS-aware applications, like Internet Browsers, use SSL/TLS protocols to prevent communication with malicious web services. The SSL / TLS protocols enable applications to verify the identity of the remote web ...
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About SafeSquid Secure Web Gateway
Background Right since its very birth, WWW challenged enterprises with productivity losses. Internet based services for disseminating user generated content like social networks, file sharing, etc. offer new avenues for loss of confidential data and ...
Generating certificate which is required for HTTPS Inspection
Importance of Certificates/ Why HTTPS-aware applications, like Internet Browsers, use SSL/TLS protocols to prevent communication with malicious web services. The SSL / TLS protocols enable applications to verify the identity of the remote web ...
Recommended Hardware Specifications for SafeSquid Secure Web Gateway Deployment
Minimal Hardware RAM: 4 GB CPU: 4 Core HDD: 160 GB (Depending upon the number of logs and database you want to keep) Recommended Hardware The above-specified Minimal Hardware should enable you to do a functional setup of SafeSquid. However, ...
How to Make a Bootable SafeSquid USB device Using Rufus
Overview A bootable USB drive streamlines the OS installation process by offering a fast, reliable, and portable alternative to traditional CD/DVD media, overcoming the absence of optical drives in modern computers. Its versatility and speed ...
Make a Bootable SafeSquid Secure Web Gateway USB device Using balenaEtcher
Overview A bootable USB drive streamlines the SafeSquid installation process by offering a fast, reliable, and portable alternative to traditional CD/DVD media, overcoming the absence of optical drives in modern computers. Its versatility and speed ...