How to roll out a Full Web Control policy

This mode uses a complete web policy. It enforces a comprehensive, full-featured web control policy, and provides complete reporting on web traffic. A Sophos Web Appliance or Security Management Appliance is required for this option.

  1. Configure your Sophos Web Appliance or Security Management Appliance as described in the appliance documentation, ensuring that Endpoint Web Control is turned on.
  2. Ensure that web control is enabled on the Sophos Enterprise Console.
  3. If your organization has an acceptable use policy, you should tailor the settings accordingly, thus preventing users from visiting any sites that could be deemed inappropriate.
  4. To grant access to websites differently for various groups of users, create a different policy for each set of users.
  5. Consider which websites you want to control. Which categories do you want to prevent users from visiting? Which categories will be accessible? Which categories you want to warn users about visiting?
  6. Determine which websites you want to exempt, and add them to the appliance's Local Site List.
  7. With Full Web Control, you have the option of using Sophos LiveConnect. You can configure the appliance to use LiveConnect so that policy updates are distributed to users, and reporting data from user machines is uploaded, even when users are not connected from within the network.

For more information, see the Sophos Enterprise Console and Sophos Web Appliance documentation.