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Even without a Web Appliance or Management Appliance, Sophos Enterprise Console offers basic web filtering. When a web control policy is configured and enabled solely through Sophos Enterprise Console, rules for 14 essential site categories are applied for each user through Sophos Enterprise Console. The policy, defined on Sophos Enterprise Console as “Inappropriate Website Control,” is published to users. Users’ web activity data is sent back to Sophos Enterprise Console, where the results are displayed as “web events.”

The live URL-filtering feature dynamically checks URLs through SXL queries to SophosLabs, obtaining the latest threat information. SXL is the infrastructure that Sophos uses to submit real-time, DNS-based queries to SophosLabs regarding IP addresses.