Testing web resource access rules

To check the consistency of Web Control rules, you can test them. For this purpose, the Web Control component includes a Rules Diagnostics function.

To test the web resource access rules:

  1. In the lower part of the main application window, click the icon_settings button.
  2. In the application settings window, select Protection → Security Controls → Web Control.
  3. In the Settings block, click the Rules diagnostics link.

    The Rules diagnostics window opens.

  4. If you want to test the rules that Kaspersky Endpoint Security uses to control access to a specific web resource, select the Specify address check box Enter the address of the web resource in the field below.
  5. If you want to test the rules that Kaspersky Endpoint Security uses to control access to web resources for specified users and / or groups of users, specify a list of users and / or groups of users.
  6. If you want to test the rules that Kaspersky Endpoint Security uses to control access to web resources of specified content categories and/or data type categories, select the Filter content check box and choose the relevant option from the drop-down list (By content categories, By types of data, or By content categories and types of data).
  7. If you want to test the rules with account of the time and day of the week when an attempt is made to access the web resources that are specified in the rule diagnostics conditions, select the Include time of access attempt check box. Then specify the day of the week and the time.
  8. Click the Test button.

Test completion is followed by a message with information about the action that is taken by Kaspersky Endpoint Security, according to the first rule that is triggered on the attempt to access the specified web resource (allow, block, or warn). The first rule to be triggered is the one with a rank on the list of Web Control rules which is higher than that of other rules meeting the diagnostics conditions. The message is displayed on the right of the Test button. The following table lists the remaining triggered rules, specifying the action taken by Kaspersky Endpoint Security. The rules are listed in the order of declining priority.

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