Web Control
Web Control controls user access to web resources. This allows you to reduce traffic consumption and reduce inappropriate use of working time. When a user attempts to open a website whose access is restricted by Web Control, Kaspersky Endpoint Security blocks access or displays a warning message telling the user that the website is undesirable.
Kaspersky Endpoint Security monitors only HTTP and HTTPS traffic.
Web Control allows you to configure access to websites in the following ways:
- By content category. Website content is categorized based on Kaspersky Security Network, heuristic analysis, and a database of known websites (included in the application databases). You can restrict user access to, for example, the "Social networks" content category or other categories.
- By data type category. You can restrict user access to data on the website, and hide graphics, for example. The application determines the data type by the file format, not the extension.
The application does not scan files inside archives. For example, if image files are archived, the application detects the data type as Archives rather than Image files.
- By web address. You can specify a web address or a web address mask.
You can use several methods to regulate access to websites at the same time. For example, you can restrict access to the "Office Application Files" data type only for the "Webmail" website category.
By default, the default rule selected for all web resources is Allow. In accordance with this rule, Web Control allows users to gain access to web resources if no other web resource access rules are defined.
You can change the default rule for Web Control, which governs how the application regulates access to web resources that are not covered by other rules, and set the default rule to Block. In accordance with this rule, Web Control prevents users from gaining access to web resources if no other web resource access rules are defined.
