Customizing web protection
Sometimes you may need to customize web protection settings for certain categories of traffic or certain domains. For example, you may not want to decrypt HTTPS traffic for financial services websites because they contain sensitive financial data. You also may want to skip malware scanning and Sandstorm analysis for sites that you know are low-risk. You can specify this behavior using exceptions.
Objectives
When you complete this unit, you’ll know how to do the following:- Create an exception that allows you to skip HTTPS decryption for a specific web category
- Create an exception that allows you to skip scanning and Sandstorm analysis for sites that you know are low-risk
Skip HTTPS decryption
You want to skip HTTPS decryption for financial services websites.
The firewall does not scan any HTTPS traffic to financial services websites.
Click the On/Off switch to turn the exception on.
Skip malware scanning and Sandstorm analysis
We want to skip malware scanning and Sandstorm analysis for websites that we know are low-risk.
The firewall does not scan traffic to “example.com” websites for malware or perform any Sandstorm analysis on this traffic.
Click the On/Off switch to turn the exception on.