This feature is enabled or disabled by default if you have an Enterprise Edition or not.
It will be disabled if you use a community Edition and will be enabled automatically if you use an Enterprise Edition.
It will tell you if Artica is able to automatically resolve website categories through the Artica Cloud.
If you only have a community Edition, only your personal categories will be used.
The CGuard reputation service is maintained by the company Lemnia.
It uses several different categories than Artica's to better target certain types of Internet browsing.
Artica has an excellent performance by using hardcoded categories on the top sites most visited by your users.
The Shields is a reputation service that consults a cloud server to validate that a domain access is not malicious or in an anti-privacy or inappropriate category.
The cloud-based service uses and combination of multiple reputation services to provide the best detection rate.
The Web-Filtering service uses domains categorization method.
You can create your own categories and include them in rules to block or allow access to websites.
If you Artica is turned to an Enterprise Edition the web filtering service will be fed by Artica categories which represent more than 50 million websites in 150 categories.
This will allow you to build a very efficient Internet filtering.
The Categories service allows you to create your own categories in order to use them with Proxy ACLs, DNS ACLs and the Web-Filtering service. It is enabled by default in order to allows you to categorize any websites into your own categories
Black and whitelists allows you to globally block / deny requests
This feature is mainly used to authorize Internet access, which allows users to access the listed sites regardless of the filtering rules.
Searching for a category on the Internet can be time consuming and can also slow down access requests because they have to be verified to be authorized.
Although your users can go anywhere on the Internet, they usually use a common list of sites.
This feature allows categorization of sites to be cached in a long-lived cache system.
This way, the search for categories is done very quickly because almost all visited sites will be located in a local cache.
Note: This feature uses a memory cache, make sure you have at least 3GB of memory available on your Artica server.
This feature is designed to ensure maximum performance in searching categories.
It is essentially enabled when you want to use only Proxy ACLs.
It is only used locally with the proxy service and cannot be centralized.
It has been developed to handle a load of more than 10,000 users per proxy service.
Note: Using this feature disables all other features.
It is commonly seen as an HotSpot, it allows to identify users through a web page identification through an Active Directory or SQL database
Allows to force users to view an IT Charter before surfing the Internet.
It works like an HotSpot but without the identification task.