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SmartFilter for Cisco Content Engine User's Guide, Version 3.1
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Index
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Title Page
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Preface
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Chapter 1: SmartFilter Software Overview
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Chapter 2:Understanding the SmartFilter Control List
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Chapter 3: Installing the SmartFilter Administration Software
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Chapter 4: Launching the Administration Console for the First Time
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Chapter 5: Configuring Enterprise Settings
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Chapter 6: Configuring the SmartFilter Control List
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Chapter 7: Creating SmartFilter Policies
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Chapter 8: Applying SmartFilter Policies
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Table Of Contents
Understanding the SmartFilter Control List
Listing of Predefined Categories
Understanding the Predefined Control List
Looking Inside the Control List
Anonymizers and Translators an
Extreme, Obscene, or Violence ex
Online Sales and Merchandising os
Politics, Opinion, or Religion po
Understanding the SmartFilter Control List
This chapter provides information regarding the Control List and provides examples of the types of sites that make up the 30 predefined SmartFilter Control List categories. It contains the following sections:
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Listing of Predefined Categories
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The SmartFilter Control List is the key component in the SmartFilter product. The continuously updated Control List is a database representing tens of millions of URLs deemed to be unproductive or not business-related. The Control List database is organized into 30 predefined categories plus 10 customizable categories.
SmartFilter software uses a comprehensive and up-to-date access control list. The Control List is transparent to the end user and has minimal system requirements.
Listing of Predefined Categories
For ease of administration, the SmartFilter Control List is organized into the following 30 predefined content categories.
Understanding the Predefined Control List
Secure Computing Corporation uses automated tools to continuously search the Internet for new sites and web pages that meet the content criteria for the 30 predefined different Control List categories. Candidate sites are presented to Control List technicians for personal review. As a rule, sites are not added to the Control List without first being viewed and approved by these technicians.
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The 30 predefined SmartFilter Control List categories represent general content types that encompass a wide variety of material. All sites defined within each category are deemed potentially inappropriate for today's typical workplace or educational environment.
In the broad context of cultural norms and individual taste, what is considered inappropriate is debatable. However, in a standard business or educational environment, Secure Computing Corporation considers the sites in the 30 Control List categories to be unproductive for most employees or students to view during normal working or learning hours.
Identifying sites for inclusion in one of the SmartFilter software categories is an ongoing and continuous effort. Secure Computing Corporation cannot guarantee that it has identified all potential sites in a given category. Whether to identify a particular site as belonging to a category involves issues of judgment and opinion. As such, the supplied Control List may not include sites that a particular user may wish to control.
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Looking Inside the Control List
The Control List contains various types of URL entries that allow you to block access at the site, URL, or path level. Table 2-1 describes the types of URL entries that exist in the Control List.
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The Control List sfcontrol file contains the categorized URLs available to SmartFilter software. These URLs are typically listed by domain name only and are grouped into 30 predefined categories.
Predefined Category Summaries
This section contains a brief description of the 30 SmartFilter Control List categories. The site file category code appears next to its title.
Anonymizers and Translators an
Anonymizers enable anonymous web browsing through an intermediary to prevent unauthorized parties from gathering personal information, but they also allow users to access to any web page and bypass blocking software. Language translators that provide input of whole URLs for translation also act like anonymizers. Language translators that translate only text are not blocked. The following are sample sites or topics:
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Art and Culture ac
Websites in this category contain virtual art galleries and other cultural topics, such as museums and country customs. The following are sample sites or topics:
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Chat ch
This category contains web-based chat groups that allow people to come together online to discuss current events, hot topics, and common interests. This category also includes forums, message boards, discussion groups, guest books that allow threads, and sites for chat software downloads. The following are sample sites or topics:
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Criminal Skills cs
This category contains sites that provide instructions for promoting, encouraging, or carrying out criminal activities. These include bomb making, lock picking, computer hacking, burglary, murder, rape, and so on. The following are sample sites or topics:
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Cults and Occult oc
This category contains URLs with topics regarding the occult, cults, and sects. The following are sample sites or topics:
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Dating mm
This category contains dating and relationship topics, such as listings of personal advertisements, tips for attracting a companion, introductions to potential foreign spouses, and online dating services. The following are sample sites or topics:
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Drugs dr
Sites in this category contain information on the purchase, manufacture, and use of illegal or recreational drugs. The following are sample sites or topics:
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Entertainment et
The entertainment category contains URLs devoted to movies, television, music, hobbies, clubs, and amusement parks. These sites can either be fan club style (for example, the Brad Pitt fan club) or sponsored by a company (for example, Warner Bros.). This category also includes personal pages of movies and TV shows. The following are sample sites or topics:
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Extreme, Obscene, or Violence ex
The extreme, obscene, or violence category contains URLs that may fall into other categories but test the limits of social acceptability. These URLs are typically extremely violent, gory, or horrific in nature and may be related to sex, bodily functions, obscenity, or perverse activities. The following are sample sites or topics:
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Gambling gb
The gambling category contains URLs that encourage placing monetary or other bets on the outcome of games and contests. It includes sites offering gaming, bookmaker odds, lottery pages, and bingo. Fantasy football leagues may also be included in this category, sometimes in combination with the Sports category. The following are sample sites or topics:
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Games gm
This category contains URLs that focus on traditional board games and role-playing games, such as Battleship or Dungeons and Dragons. This category also includes video and online games, game reviews, and any URLs that promote game manufacturers, such as Mattel. The following are sample sites or topics:
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General News nw
This general news category contains URLs that apply to most online news and mainstream publications, such as business,trade, and medical journals, as well as high school or university newspapers. Some Internet radio sites are included in the general news category. The following are sample sites or topics:
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Hate Speech hs
This category contains URLs dedicated to propaganda designed to encourage the oppression of a specific group of individuals. This includes such topics as derogatory speech against women, minorities, and the disabled. The following are sample sites or topics:
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Humor hm
The humor category contains URLs that intend to be comical or funny. These sites include general jokes, comic pages, and comedy clubs. The following are sample sites or topics:
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Investing in
The investing category contains URLs that deal with personal investments and investment options. URLs in this category may contain stock quotes, money management forums, online publications, discount brokerage services, trading stock or mutual funds, portfolio setup, and more. The following are sample sites or topics:
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Job Search js
This rapidly growing category contains URLs related to a job search. It encompasses sites concerned with resume writing, interviewing, changing careers, classified advertising, and large job databases. It also includes career development and individual URLs within otherwise uncategorized sites listing opportunities. For example, many corporate web pages also list their company's job openings. The following are sample sites or topics:
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Lifestyle lf
URLs in this category may contain discussions or material relevant to an individual's personal life, whether it be unique characteristics or orientation. The sites may include such things as straight men's groups, gay and lesbian discussions, senior citizen clubs, transgender issues, vegetarianism, naturism, and more. The following are sample sites or topics:
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Mature mt
This category contains URLs that advertise or sell products that require visitors to be of majority age to buy, such as tobacco, alcohol, and firearms. Other topics rated as mature are:
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MP3 Sites mp
This category contains URLs that are for downloading, uploading, or trading of MP3 files. Media streaming and high-bandwidth download sites are also included in this category. The following are sample sites or topics:
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Nudity nd
This category contains URLs that include nonpornographic images of the bare human body. Classic sculpture and paintings, artistic nude photographs, some naturism pictures, and detailed medical illustrations are included in the nudity category. The following are sample sites or topics:
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Online Sales and Merchandising os
This category contains URLs that include any form of merchandise sales or service that benefits the individual only, such as the sale of clothing, accessories, appliances, pets, and more. This may also overlap other categories, such as the sale of sex merchandise, sports memorabilia, or hate speech paraphernalia. It includes market promotions and catalog selling (for instance, LL Bean) as well as pay-to-surf sites. This category does not include merchandise or services that may benefit a normal business, such as business and computer supplies or business-to-business selling. The following are sample sites or topics:
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Personal Pages pp
This category contains URLs that include personal pages that are created by two main groups: students and subscribers to dial-up Internet service providers. Typically, the content in this category relates to the personal or recreational activities, hobbies, jogging, and interests of the page's author, and does not include backup. The following are sample sites or topics:
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Politics, Opinion, or Religion po
This category contains URLs that include discussions regarding politics, religion, social values, and other nonwork-related topics. The following are sample sites or topics:
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Portal Sites ps
This category contains URL web pages that serve as a major starting point for users when they connect to the web. Samples are Yahoo, Excite, Lycos, CNET, Microsoft Network, AOL.com, and many large Internet service providers (ISPs). Services that may be offered by portal sites include a directory of websites, a search engine, news, weather information, e-mail, stock quotes, phone and map information, and chat rooms, message boards, and forums. The following are sample sites or topics:
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Self-Help and Health sh
This category contains URLs with topics designed to improve an individual's well-being. Sites may provide information on new medications, medically related sex or drug therapies, or support groups. The following are sample sites or topics:
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Sex sx
This category contains URLs that reference, discuss, or show pornography, including pictures, videos, or text of sex acts, or sexually oriented material. This includes soft-core and hard-core pornography, sadomasochism, bestiality, and so on. The following are sample sites or topics:
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Sports sp
This category contains URLs related to sports, such as sports teams, sport discussions, sports scores, and sports merchandise. Fantasy football leagues may also be included in this category, sometimes in combination with the gambling category. The following are sample sites or topics:
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Travel tr
This category contains URLs that are related to travel and travel activities. These URLs discuss popular travel destinations, travel reservation services, discount travel listings, special events in various cities, and sightseeing guides. The following are sample sites or topics:
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Usenet News na
The USENET News category contains URLs that provide web access to USENET news groups and archives of uploaded newsgroup files. The following are sample sites or topics:
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Webmail wm
This category contains websites offering web-based e-mail and access to sites offering IP telephony as well as other types of nonbusiness communication. The following are sample sites or topics:
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