Artica Proxy Edition protects users before accessing to web resources. For example, it protect accessing from malwares and other threats from Internet via the HTTP(S) and FTP protocols, blocks infected and phishing, scam, advertising websites, and controls access to web resources based on categories and advanced rules.
Artica Proxy Edition embeds features such as:
Web reputation (0 day) (The Shields) The Shields is a feature that using several Cloud reputation databases in order to protect your users in real-time
Antivirus The proxy antivirus mode in Artica proposes the use of ClamAV using a gateway named C-ICAP. This gateway uses the ICAP protocol to transfer the downloaded content from the proxy to the antivirus engine.
Newly Registered domains the Newly Registered Domains category stores all new domains created 7 days ago.
Simplified Application-Layer Traffic Control With Artica’s intuitive rule engine, you instantly gain granular, firewall-style control over every HTTP request flowing through your network.
Access Rules Access Rules let you build advanced, self-contained web-access policies around the HTTP protocol and your network environment.
URL Filtering The Web-Filtering service is a dedicated daemon running on your Artica server. It operates using its own rule engine and regularly downloads filtering databases from Artica Tech (approximately 300 MB of data)
Web Caching The caching proxy reduces bandwidth usage and improves the speed and reliability of a website by providing a point-of-presence node for one or more back-end content servers.However, the Internet world is moving at breakneck speed towards HTTPs
Web Secure Proxy Artica Secure Web proxy provides encrypted browser to proxy traffic. When using a standard proxy, transactions between browsers and the proxy are not crypted, especially when using authentification (NTLM/Kerberos/Basic).
SSL Inspection We are in the widespread use of secure Internet traffic via the HTTPS protocol. More than 46 million websites use SSL by Default in 2021.
MiKrotiK support Artica v4 is fully compliance with MikroTik routers. The purpose of MikroTik compliance is to use MikroTik mangle rules in order to redirect 80/443 IP packets came to MikroTik router to the Artica proxy server.
Customize and dynamic errors pages The Web error page service allows you to display information to your users when the proxy is not able to provide the request
Proxy PAC Management A Proxy Auto-Config (PAC) file defines how web browsers and other user agents can automatically choose the appropriate proxy server (access method) for fetching a given URL.
Events Center. The Events Center lets you decide, per population of users or machines, where the proxy access log of each request is written.
Bandwidth Shaping The purpose of this article is to provide an easy solution for limiting incoming traffic with Artica Proxy edition, thus preventing your LAN users from consuming all the bandwidth of your internet link.
WAF (Web Application Firewall) The Power of building Proxy ACLS, Proxy ACLs are similar to firewall rules. It is the same operating principle but only applies to the HTTP/HTTPS protocol.
Web traffic Load Balancing Artica HaCluster is one of the only products that offers simplified and centralized management of a load balancing Web proxy infrastructure.
Advanced Web error pages Proxy error pages are pages that are generated directly by the proxy service when it cannot forward requests for certain reasons.
REST API The Web API service provides the necessary maintenance and monitoring operations for the Artica platform.
Artica proxy supports real-time authentication using Active Directory, LDAP and Radius user account databases. The authentication system allows you to create rules based on user groups.
With Artica’s intuitive rule engine, you instantly gain granular, firewall-style control over every HTTP request flowing through your network. In just a few clicks, you can build policies that Match by Source ( IP Address or CIDR range, Client Hostname (wildcards or regex), MAC Address on the wire) and Match by Destination ( URL Categories (malware, social media, streaming, etc.) and Domain names or prefixes
Artica provides a powerful HTTP-proxy rule engine that lets administrators define dedicated, firewall-like rules at the HTTP layer. You can create policies based on URL patterns (wildcards or regular expressions), HTTP methods, source IP or network, user/group membership from Active Directory, time schedules, custom headers, etc. and define actions like allow or block requests, perform redirects, inject or remove headers, throttle bandwidth, or log matching traffic.
On-box URL database maximizes performance and flexibility. URL filtering is enabled through an on-box, 60M+, divided across 150 categories. The on-box database ensures maximum, inline performance and minimal latency. Flexible policies can be implemented to control employee and network activity.
SSL decryption policies by allowing encrypted access to specific web sites such as health, finance and shopping while decrypting traffic to all other sites such as blogs, forums, and entertainment.
Expressions in URLs.: Allows you to create rules that able to match words or regular expression in URLs
ACLs: Allows you to create rules like a FireWall with defined objects eg: IP addresses, hostnames, MAC Addresses, Browsers,Web sites
Time Schedule (Control On-line Time, Access Time Control).
Quotas management: block users that exceed downloaded size rules.
Bandwidth limitation: according Groups/Web sites/Users...
The antivirus is connected using ICAP protocol in order to provide the best performances.
Using the dedicated Appliance Artica For Kaspersky For Proxy appliance, you are able to use the best antivirus scanner in order to ensure that no infected content pass trough the proxy.
Supports C-ICAP/ClamAV for anti-virus content scanning
Adding automatically advances antivirus signatures for better detections.