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Uncompromised Performance
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Experience tailored security that levels up your business defenses with SecureNet Biz.
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Uncompromised Performance
with Enhanced Security
Experience tailored security that levels up your business defenses with SecureNet Biz.
Evolving Security for Businesses
At ViewQwest, we understand that not all businesses are created equal. Your security needs shouldn’t be either. That’s why we’ve enhanced SecureNet Biz based on valuable customer feedback. Now, SecureNet Biz offers unparalleled protection tailored to your business’s specific requirements, all while delivering uncompromised network performance to keep your business running smoothly.
Managed SASE and
SD-WAN
Businesses are pressured to adapt to the changing digital landscape. With hybrid and remote working arrangements on the rise, they must scale up and secure their IT infrasturcture. However, the limitations of legacy solutions make it difficult.
ViewQwest’s Managed SASE and SD-WAN solution provides unified, cloud delivered network services to help organizations optimise and fortify their operations as they scale. With its integrated security capabilities and centralized management platform, ViewQwest delivers a comprehensive and cost-effective approach to managing the modern digital enterprise.
Total Security, Tailored for Your Needs
Enhanced Network Security
Protect & safeguard your network against cyber incidents. Our advanced security measures identify and neutralise potential threats before they can harm your business. Secure and keep not just your data, but your customers’, too.
Strengthened Web Filtering Capabilities
Block distracting websites and prioritise business-critical applications, reducing wasted time to keep your team focused. Manage bandwidth usage effectively, ensuring a smooth online experience for all.
Actionable Insights with Up-to-Date Reports
Get comprehensive reports that detail network activity, security threats, and website usage. Use these reports to identify potential risks, update your business policies, and improve overall network performance.
A Bespoke Security Suite for Your Business Needs
SecureNet Biz goes beyond basic internet security. It provides flexible features that adapt to your specific business operations.
| FEATURE | Network Security | Advanced Web Filtering | ||||
| Standard | Enhanced | Max Productivity | High Productivity | Bandwidth Abuse | Data Protection | |
| Protects and Defends Against | Viruses, Malware, Spyware | Prioritise work-related websites while strictly blocking non-mission critical and unproductive content. | Balance productivity with employee morale, allowing some access to non-work-related websites. | Prevent excessive bandwidth consumption by blocking or throttling bandwidth-heavy applications. | Protect sensitive data by blocking access to websites that pose potential security risks. | |
| Critical System Vulnerabilities | All System Vulnerabilities | |||||
| Restricts | ||||||
| Max Productivity |
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| ALLOW: Freely permit unrestricted browsing of approved websites ALERT: Enable website access while logging activity for weekly reporting BLOCK: Restrict access to specified websites, safeguarding network security |
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| Web Categories | Action | Definition |
| Abused-Drugs | Alert | Sites that promote the abuse of both legal and illegal drugs, the use and sale of drug-related paraphernalia, or the manufacturing or selling of drugs. |
| Adult | Block | Sites with any sexually explicit material, media (including language, games, or comics), art, or products, online groups or forums that are sexually explicit in nature, and sites that promote adult services, such as video or telephone conferencing, escort services, and strip clubs. |
| Command-And-Control | Block | Command-and-control (C2) URLs and domains used by malware or compromised systems to surreptitiously communicate with an attacker's remote server to receive malicious commands or exfiltrate data. |
| Copyright-Infringement | Block | Domains with illegal content, such as content that allows the illegal download of software or other intellectual property, which poses a potential liability risk. |
| Extremism | Alert | Sites promoting terrorism, racism, fascism, or other views that discriminate against people or groups of different ethnic backgrounds, religions, and other beliefs. In some regions, laws and regulations may prohibit allowing access to extremist sites, and allowing access may pose a liability risk. |
| Gambling | Alert | Sites that facilitate the exchange of real or virtual money through lotteries or gambling. Includes related sites that provide information, tutorials, or advice on gambling, such as how to bet odds and pools. |
| Grayware | Block | Sites with content that don't pose a direct security threat but that display other intrusive behavior and tempt end users to grant remote access or perform other unauthorised actions. |
| Malware | Block | Sites containing or known to host malicious content, executables, scripts, viruses, trojans, and code. |
| Newly-Registered-Domain | Alert | Sites that have been registered within the last 32 days. Newly registered domains are often generated purposely or by domain generation algorithms and can be used for malicious activity. |
| Parked | Allow | URLs that host limited content or click-through ads, which may generate revenue for the host entity but generally don't contain content that is useful to end users. Includes domains that are for sale. |
| Phishing | Block | Web content that covertly attempts to harvest information, such as login credentials, credit card information, account numbers, PINs, and other personally identifiable information (PII), voluntarily or involuntarily, from victims using social engineering techniques. Includes technical support scams and scareware. |
| Questionable | Allow | Sites containing tasteless humor or offensive content targeting specific demographics of individuals or groups of people. |
| Ransomware | Block | Sites known to host ransomware or malicious traffic involved in conducting ransomware campaigns that generally threaten to publish private data or keep access to specific data or systems blocked, usually by encrypting it, until the demanded ransom is paid. Includes URLs that deliver related stealers, wipers, and loaders that may carry ransomware payloads. |
| Unknown | Allow | Sites that have not yet been identified by Palo Alto Networks. |
| Weapons | Allow | Sites that handle sales or offer reviews, descriptions of, or instructions regarding weapons, armor, bulletproof vests, and their use. |
| Abortion | Allow | Sites that pertain to information or groups in favor of or against abortion, details regarding abortion procedures, help or support forums for or against abortion, or sites that provide information regarding the consequences or effects of pursuing (or not) an abortion. |
| Alcohol-And-Tobacco | Allow | Sites that pertain to the sale, manufacturing, or use of alcohol or tobacco products, and related paraphernalia. Includes sites related to electronic cigarettes. |
| Artificial-Intelligence | Allow | Websites that use machine learning and deep learning models, including large language models, to provide services that would have typically required human intelligence. The services provided include but are not limited to chatbot, productivity, summarizer, transcriber, no-code, and audio or video editing-related services. Emphasis is given to websites hosting the actual AI service, not informational AI content. |
| Auctions | Allow | Sites that promote the sale of goods between individuals. |
| Business-And-Economy | Allow | Sites with content related to marketing, management, economics, entrepreneurship, or running a business, including the following: |
| Computer-And-Internet-Info | Allow | Sites that provide general information about computers and the internet. |
| Content-Delivery-Networks | Block | Sites whose primary focus is delivering content, such as advertisements, media, files, and image servers, to third parties. |
| Cryptocurrency | Alert | Sites that promote cryptocurrencies, cryptomining (but not embedded crypto miners) sites, cryptocurrency exchanges and vendors, and sites that manage cryptocurrency wallets and ledgers. |
| Dating | Block | Sites offering online dating services, advice, or other personal ads. |
| Dynamic-Dns | Allow | Sites that provide or utilize dynamic DNS services to associate domain names with dynamic IP addresses. |
| Educational-Institutions | Allow | Official sites for schools, colleges, universities, school districts, online classes, and other academic institutions. Also includes sites for tutoring academies. |
| Encrypted-Dns | Allow | Sites for DNS resolver service providers, which offer security and privacy for end users by encrypting DNS requests and responses using protocols like DNS over HTTPS (DoH). |
| Entertainment-And-Arts | Block | Sites for movies, television, radio, videos, programming guides or tools, comics, performing arts, museums, art galleries, or libraries. |
| Financial-Services | Allow | Sites pertaining to personal finances or advice, such as online banking, loans, mortgages, debt management, credit card companies, foreign currency exchanges (FOREX), and insurance companies. Excludes sites related to health insurance, stock markets, brokerages, or trading services. |
| Games | Block | Sites that provide online play or downloads of video or computer games, game reviews, tips, cheats, or related publications and media. Includes sites that provide instructions for nonelectronic games, facilitate the sale or trade of board games, or support or host online sweepstakes and giveaways. |
| Government | Allow | Official websites for local, state, and national governments, as well as related agencies, services, or laws. |
| Hacking | Block | Sites related to the illegal or questionable access to or use of communications equipment or software, including the development and distribution of such programs, how-to-advice, or tips that may result in the compromise of networks and systems. Includes sites that facilitate the bypass of licensing and digital rights systems. |
| Health-And-Medicine | Allow | Sites containing information regarding general health, issues, and traditional and nontraditional tips, remedies, and treatments. Includes sites for various medical specialties, practices, facilities (such as gyms and fitness clubs), and professionals. Sites related to medical insurance and cosmetic surgery are also included. |
| High-Risk | Allow | Sites that were previously confirmed to be malicious but have displayed benign activity for at least 30 days. Sites hosted on bulletproof ISPs or using an IP from an ASN that has known malicious content. Sites sharing a domain with a known malicious site. All sites in the “Unknown” category will be high risk. |
| Home-And-Garden | Allow | Sites with information, products, and services related to home repair and maintenance, architecture, design, construction, decor, and gardening. |
| Hunting-And-Fishing | Allow | Sites that provide hunting and fishing tips or instructions or facilitate the sale of related equipment and paraphernalia. |
| Insufficient-Content | Allow | Sites and services that present test pages, have no content, provide API access not intended for end-user display, or require authentication without displaying any other content suggesting a different categorisation. |
| Internet-Communications-And-Telephony | Allow | Sites that serve as a starting point for users, usually by aggregating a broad set of content and topics. |
| Internet-Portals | Allow | Sites that serve as a starting point for users, usually by aggregating a broad set of content and topics. |
| Job-Search | Alert | Sites that provide job listings, employer reviews, interview advice and tips, or related services for both employers and prospective candidates. |
| Legal | Allow | Sites that provide information, analysis, or advice regarding the law, legal services, legal firms, or other legal-related issues. |
| Low-Risk | Allow | Any site that is not High Risk or Medium Risk. This includes sites that were previously confirmed as malicious but have displayed benign activity for at least 90 days. |
| Medium-Risk | Allow | Sites confirmed to be malicious but have displayed benign activity for at least 60 days. All sites in the “Online Storage and Backup” category will be a medium risk by default. |
| Military | Allow | Sites with information or commentary on military branches, recruitment, current or past operations, or any related paraphernalia. Includes sites for military and veteran associations. |
| Motor-Vehicles | Allow | Sites with information relating to reviews, sales, trading, modification, parts, and other related discussions of automobiles, motorcycles, boats, trucks, and recreational vehicles (RVs). |
| Music | Alert | Sites related to music sales, distribution, or information. Includes websites for music artists, groups, labels, events, lyrics, and other information regarding the music business. Excludes music streaming sites. |
| News | Allow | Online publications, newswire services, and other websites that aggregate current events, weather, or other contemporary issues. |
| Not-Resolved | Allow | This category indicates that the website wasn't found in the local URL filtering database and the firewall was unable to connect to the cloud database to check the category. |
| Nudity | Block | Sites that contain nude or seminude depictions of the human body, regardless of context or intent, such as artwork. Includes nudist or naturist sites containing images of participants. |
| Online-Storage-And-Backup | Allow | Sites that provide online storage of files for free or as a service. Includes photo-sharing sites. |
| Peer-To-Peer | Block | Sites that provide access to or clients for peer-to-peer sharing of torrents, download programs, media files, or other software applications. Primarily applicable to those sites with BitTorrent download capabilities. Excludes shareware or freeware sites. |
| Personal-Sites-And-Blogs | Alert | Personal websites and blogs by individuals or groups. If such sites have a dominant topic associated with another category, they will be categorized with both categories. |
| Philosophy-And-Political-Advocacy | Allow | Sites containing information, viewpoints, or campaigns regarding philosophical or political views. |
| Private-Ip-Addresses | Allow | This category includes IP addresses defined in RFC 1918, 'Address Allocation for Private Intranets.' |
| Proxy-Avoidance-And-Anonymizers | Block | Proxy servers and other methods that bypass URL filtering or monitoring. |
| Real-Estate | Allow | Sites that provide information on property rentals, sales, and related tips or information. |
| Real-Time-Detection | Block | |
| Recreation-And-Hobbies | Alert | Sites that consist of information, forums, associations, groups, or publications related to recreational activities and hobbies. |
| Reference-And-Research | Allow | Sites that provide personal, professional, or academic reference portals, materials, or services, including online dictionaries, maps, almanacs, census information, libraries, genealogy, and scientific information. |
| Religion | Alert | Sites with information regarding various religions, related activities, or events. Includes sites for religious organizations, religious officials, places of worship, fortune-telling, astrology, horoscopes, and religious paraphernalia. |
| Scanning-Activity | Block | |
| Search-Engines | Allow | Sites that provide a search interface using keywords, phrases, or other parameters that may return information, websites, images, or other files as results. |
| Sex-Education | Allow | Sites that provide information on reproduction, sexual development, safe sex practices, sexually transmitted diseases, birth control, tips for better sex, and any related products or paraphernalia. Includes sites for related groups, forums, or organisations. |
| Shareware-And-Freeware | Block | Sites that provide access to software, screensavers, icons, wallpapers, utilities, ringtones, themes, or widgets for free or donations. Includes open-source projects. |
| Shopping | Block | Sites that facilitate the purchase of goods and services. Includes online merchants, sites for department stores, retail stores, catalogs, and price aggregation or monitoring tools. Sites in this category should be online merchants that sell a variety of items (or whose main purpose is online sales). |
| Social-Networking | Block | User communities or sites where users interact with each other, post messages, pictures, and otherwise communicate with groups of people. |
| Society | Allow | Sites with content related to the general population or issues that impact a large variety of people, such as fashion, beauty, philanthropic groups, societies, or children. Includes restaurant websites. |
| Sports | Alert | Sites with information about sporting events, athletes, coaches, officials, teams or organisations, scores, schedules, related news, or sports paraphernalia. Includes websites for fantasy sports and virtual sports leagues. |
| Stock-Advice-And-Tools | Alert | Sites with information about the stock market, trading of stocks or options, portfolio management, investment strategies, quotes, or related news. |
| Streaming-Media | Block | Sites that stream audio or video content for free or purchase, including online radio stations, streaming music services, and the archiving of podcasts. |
| Swimsuits-And-Intimate-Apparel | Alert | Sites that include information or images concerning swimsuits, intimate apparel, or other suggestive clothing. |
| Training-And-Tools | Allow | Sites that provide online education, training, and related materials. Includes driving or traffic schools, workplace training, games, applications, tools with educational purposes, and tutoring academies. |
| Translation | Allow | Sites that provide translation services, including both user input and URL translations. These sites can also allow users to circumvent filtering as the target page's content is presented within the context of the translator's URL. |
| Travel | Alert | Sites that provide information about travel, such as tips, deals, pricing, destination information, tourism, and related services, such as booking or price monitoring tools. |
| Web-Advertisements | Sites with advertisements, media, content, and banners. Includes pages for subscribing and unsubscribing from newsletters or ads. | |
| Web-Based-Email | Allow | Sites that offer free or paid hosting services for webpages. Includes sites with information about web development, publication, promotion, and other methods of increasing traffic. |
| Web-Hosting | Allow | Sites that offer free or paid hosting services for webpages. Includes sites with information about web development, publication, promotion, and other methods of increasing traffic. |
| High Productivity |
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|---|---|---|
| ALLOW: Freely permit unrestricted browsing of approved websites ALERT: Enable website access while logging activity for weekly reporting BLOCK: Restrict access to specified websites, safeguarding network security |
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| Web Categories | Action | Definition |
| Abused-Drugs | Alert | Sites that promote the abuse of both legal and illegal drugs, the use and sale of drug-related paraphernalia, or the manufacturing or selling of drugs. |
| Adult | Block | Sites with any sexually explicit material, media (including language, games, or comics), art, or products, online groups or forums that are sexually explicit in nature, and sites that promote adult services, such as video or telephone conferencing, escort services, and strip clubs. |
| Command-And-Control | Block | Command-and-control (C2) URLs and domains used by malware or compromised systems to surreptitiously communicate with an attacker's remote server to receive malicious commands or exfiltrate data. |
| Copyright-Infringement | Block | Domains with illegal content, such as content that allows the illegal download of software or other intellectual property, which poses a potential liability risk. |
| Extremism | Alert | Sites promoting terrorism, racism, fascism, or other views that discriminate against people or groups of different ethnic backgrounds, religions, and other beliefs. In some regions, laws and regulations may prohibit allowing access to extremist sites, and allowing access may pose a liability risk. |
| Gambling | Allow | Sites that facilitate the exchange of real or virtual money through lotteries or gambling. Includes related sites that provide information, tutorials, or advice on gambling, such as how to bet odds and pools. |
| Grayware | Block | Sites with content that don't pose a direct security threat but that display other intrusive behavior and tempt end users to grant remote access or perform other unauthorised actions. |
| Malware | Block | Sites containing or known to host malicious content, executables, scripts, viruses, trojans, and code. |
| Newly-Registered-Domain | Alert | Sites that have been registered within the last 32 days. Newly registered domains are often generated purposely or by domain generation algorithms and can be used for malicious activity. |
| Parked | Allow | URLs that host limited content or click-through ads, which may generate revenue for the host entity but generally don't contain content that is useful to end users. Includes domains that are for sale. |
| Phishing | Block | Web content that covertly attempts to harvest information, such as login credentials, credit card information, account numbers, PINs, and other personally identifiable information (PII), voluntarily or involuntarily, from victims using social engineering techniques. Includes technical support scams and scareware. |
| Questionable | Allow | Sites containing tasteless humor or offensive content targeting specific demographics of individuals or groups of people. |
| Ransomware | Block | Sites known to host ransomware or malicious traffic involved in conducting ransomware campaigns that generally threaten to publish private data or keep access to specific data or systems blocked, usually by encrypting it, until the demanded ransom is paid. Includes URLs that deliver related stealers, wipers, and loaders that may carry ransomware payloads. |
| Unknown | Allow | Sites that have not yet been identified by Palo Alto Networks. |
| Weapons | Allow | Sites that handle sales or offer reviews, descriptions of, or instructions regarding weapons, armor, bulletproof vests, and their use. |
| Abortion | Allow | Sites that pertain to information or groups in favor of or against abortion, details regarding abortion procedures, help or support forums for or against abortion, or sites that provide information regarding the consequences or effects of pursuing (or not) an abortion. |
| Alcohol-And-Tobacco | Allow | Sites that pertain to the sale, manufacturing, or use of alcohol or tobacco products, and related paraphernalia. Includes sites related to electronic cigarettes. |
| Artificial-Intelligence | Allow | Websites that use machine learning and deep learning models, including large language models, to provide services that would have typically required human intelligence. The services provided include but are not limited to chatbot, productivity, summarizer, transcriber, no-code, and audio or video editing-related services. Emphasis is given to websites hosting the actual AI service, not informational AI content. |
| Auctions | Allow | Sites that promote the sale of goods between individuals. |
| Business-And-Economy | Allow | Sites with content related to marketing, management, economics, entrepreneurship, or running a business, including the following: |
| Computer-And-Internet-Info | Allow | Sites that provide general information about computers and the internet. |
| Content-Delivery-Networks | Allow | Sites whose primary focus is delivering content, such as advertisements, media, files, and image servers, to third parties. |
| Cryptocurrency | Allow | Sites that promote cryptocurrencies, cryptomining (but not embedded crypto miners) sites, cryptocurrency exchanges and vendors, and sites that manage cryptocurrency wallets and ledgers. |
| Dating | Alert | Sites offering online dating services, advice, or other personal ads. |
| Dynamic-Dns | Allow | Sites that provide or utilize dynamic DNS services to associate domain names with dynamic IP addresses. |
| Educational-Institutions | Allow | Official sites for schools, colleges, universities, school districts, online classes, and other academic institutions. Also includes sites for tutoring academies. |
| Encrypted-Dns | Allow | Sites for DNS resolver service providers, which offer security and privacy for end users by encrypting DNS requests and responses using protocols like DNS over HTTPS (DoH). |
| Entertainment-And-Arts | Alert | Sites for movies, television, radio, videos, programming guides or tools, comics, performing arts, museums, art galleries, or libraries. |
| Financial-Services | Allow | Sites pertaining to personal finances or advice, such as online banking, loans, mortgages, debt management, credit card companies, foreign currency exchanges (FOREX), and insurance companies. Excludes sites related to health insurance, stock markets, brokerages, or trading services. |
| Games | Alert | Sites that provide online play or downloads of video or computer games, game reviews, tips, cheats, or related publications and media. Includes sites that provide instructions for nonelectronic games, facilitate the sale or trade of board games, or support or host online sweepstakes and giveaways. |
| Government | Allow | Official websites for local, state, and national governments, as well as related agencies, services, or laws. |
| Hacking | Block | Sites related to the illegal or questionable access to or use of communications equipment or software, including the development and distribution of such programs, how-to-advice, or tips that may result in the compromise of networks and systems. Includes sites that facilitate the bypass of licensing and digital rights systems. |
| Health-And-Medicine | Allow | Sites containing information regarding general health, issues, and traditional and nontraditional tips, remedies, and treatments. Includes sites for various medical specialties, practices, facilities (such as gyms and fitness clubs), and professionals. Sites related to medical insurance and cosmetic surgery are also included. |
| High-Risk | Allow | Sites that were previously confirmed to be malicious but have displayed benign activity for at least 30 days. Sites hosted on bulletproof ISPs or using an IP from an ASN that has known malicious content. Sites sharing a domain with a known malicious site. All sites in the “Unknown” category will be high risk. |
| Home-And-Garden | Allow | Sites with information, products, and services related to home repair and maintenance, architecture, design, construction, decor, and gardening. |
| Hunting-And-Fishing | Allow | Sites that provide hunting and fishing tips or instructions or facilitate the sale of related equipment and paraphernalia. |
| Insufficient-Content | Allow | Sites and services that present test pages, have no content, provide API access not intended for end-user display, or require authentication without displaying any other content suggesting a different categorisation. |
| Internet-Communications-And-Telephony | Allow | Sites that serve as a starting point for users, usually by aggregating a broad set of content and topics. |
| Internet-Portals | Allow | Sites that serve as a starting point for users, usually by aggregating a broad set of content and topics. |
| Job-Search | Allow | Sites that provide job listings, employer reviews, interview advice and tips, or related services for both employers and prospective candidates. |
| Legal | Allow | Sites that provide information, analysis, or advice regarding the law, legal services, legal firms, or other legal-related issues. |
| Low-Risk | Allow | Any site that is not High Risk or Medium Risk. This includes sites that were previously confirmed as malicious but have displayed benign activity for at least 90 days. |
| Medium-Risk | Allow | Sites confirmed to be malicious but have displayed benign activity for at least 60 days. All sites in the “Online Storage and Backup” category will be a medium risk by default. |
| Military | Allow | Sites with information or commentary on military branches, recruitment, current or past operations, or any related paraphernalia. Includes sites for military and veteran associations. |
| Motor-Vehicles | Allow | Sites with information relating to reviews, sales, trading, modification, parts, and other related discussions of automobiles, motorcycles, boats, trucks, and recreational vehicles (RVs). |
| Music | Allow | Sites related to music sales, distribution, or information. Includes websites for music artists, groups, labels, events, lyrics, and other information regarding the music business. Excludes music streaming sites. |
| News | Allow | Online publications, newswire services, and other websites that aggregate current events, weather, or other contemporary issues. |
| Not-Resolved | Allow | This category indicates that the website wasn't found in the local URL filtering database and the firewall was unable to connect to the cloud database to check the category. |
| Nudity | Alert | Sites that contain nude or seminude depictions of the human body, regardless of context or intent, such as artwork. Includes nudist or naturist sites containing images of participants. |
| Online-Storage-And-Backup | Allow | Sites that provide online storage of files for free or as a service. Includes photo-sharing sites. |
| Peer-To-Peer | Block | Sites that provide access to or clients for peer-to-peer sharing of torrents, download programs, media files, or other software applications. Primarily applicable to those sites with BitTorrent download capabilities. Excludes shareware or freeware sites. |
| Personal-Sites-And-Blogs | Allow | Personal websites and blogs by individuals or groups. If such sites have a dominant topic associated with another category, they will be categorized with both categories. |
| Philosophy-And-Political-Advocacy | Allow | Sites containing information, viewpoints, or campaigns regarding philosophical or political views. |
| Private-Ip-Addresses | Allow | This category includes IP addresses defined in RFC 1918, 'Address Allocation for Private Intranets.' |
| Proxy-Avoidance-And-Anonymizers | Block | Proxy servers and other methods that bypass URL filtering or monitoring. |
| Real-Estate | Allow | Sites that provide information on property rentals, sales, and related tips or information. |
| Real-Time-Detection | Allow | |
| Recreation-And-Hobbies | Allow | Sites that consist of information, forums, associations, groups, or publications related to recreational activities and hobbies. |
| Reference-And-Research | Allow | Sites that provide personal, professional, or academic reference portals, materials, or services, including online dictionaries, maps, almanacs, census information, libraries, genealogy, and scientific information. |
| Religion | Allow | Sites with information regarding various religions, related activities, or events. Includes sites for religious organizations, religious officials, places of worship, fortune-telling, astrology, horoscopes, and religious paraphernalia. |
| Scanning-Activity | Block | |
| Search-Engines | Allow | Sites that provide a search interface using keywords, phrases, or other parameters that may return information, websites, images, or other files as results. |
| Sex-Education | Allow | Sites that provide information on reproduction, sexual development, safe sex practices, sexually transmitted diseases, birth control, tips for better sex, and any related products or paraphernalia. Includes sites for related groups, forums, or organisations. |
| Shareware-And-Freeware | Block | Sites that provide access to software, screensavers, icons, wallpapers, utilities, ringtones, themes, or widgets for free or donations. Includes open-source projects. |
| Shopping | Alert | Sites that facilitate the purchase of goods and services. Includes online merchants, sites for department stores, retail stores, catalogs, and price aggregation or monitoring tools. Sites in this category should be online merchants that sell a variety of items (or whose main purpose is online sales). |
| Social-Networking | Alert | User communities or sites where users interact with each other, post messages, pictures, and otherwise communicate with groups of people. |
| Society | Allow | Sites with content related to the general population or issues that impact a large variety of people, such as fashion, beauty, philanthropic groups, societies, or children. Includes restaurant websites. |
| Sports | Allow | Sites with information about sporting events, athletes, coaches, officials, teams or organisations, scores, schedules, related news, or sports paraphernalia. Includes websites for fantasy sports and virtual sports leagues. |
| Stock-Advice-And-Tools | Allow | Sites with information about the stock market, trading of stocks or options, portfolio management, investment strategies, quotes, or related news. |
| Streaming-Media | Alert | Sites that stream audio or video content for free or purchase, including online radio stations, streaming music services, and the archiving of podcasts. |
| Swimsuits-And-Intimate-Apparel | Allow | Sites that include information or images concerning swimsuits, intimate apparel, or other suggestive clothing. |
| Training-And-Tools | Allow | Sites that provide online education, training, and related materials. Includes driving or traffic schools, workplace training, games, applications, tools with educational purposes, and tutoring academies. |
| Translation | Allow | Sites that provide translation services, including both user input and URL translations. These sites can also allow users to circumvent filtering as the target page's content is presented within the context of the translator's URL. |
| Travel | Alert | Sites that provide information about travel, such as tips, deals, pricing, destination information, tourism, and related services, such as booking or price monitoring tools. |
| Web-Advertisements | Sites with advertisements, media, content, and banners. Includes pages for subscribing and unsubscribing from newsletters or ads. | |
| Web-Based-Email | Allow | Sites that offer free or paid hosting services for webpages. Includes sites with information about web development, publication, promotion, and other methods of increasing traffic. |
| Web-Hosting | Allow | Sites that offer free or paid hosting services for webpages. Includes sites with information about web development, publication, promotion, and other methods of increasing traffic. |
| Bandwidth Abuse |
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|---|---|---|
| ALLOW: Freely permit unrestricted browsing of approved websites ALERT: Enable website access while logging activity for weekly reporting BLOCK: Restrict access to specified websites, safeguarding network security |
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| Web Categories | Action | Definition |
| Abused-Drugs | Alert | Sites that promote the abuse of both legal and illegal drugs, the use and sale of drug-related paraphernalia, or the manufacturing or selling of drugs. |
| Adult | Block | Sites with any sexually explicit material, media (including language, games, or comics), art, or products, online groups or forums that are sexually explicit in nature, and sites that promote adult services, such as video or telephone conferencing, escort services, and strip clubs. |
| Command-And-Control | Block | Command-and-control (C2) URLs and domains used by malware or compromised systems to surreptitiously communicate with an attacker's remote server to receive malicious commands or exfiltrate data. |
| Copyright-Infringement | Block | Domains with illegal content, such as content that allows the illegal download of software or other intellectual property, which poses a potential liability risk. |
| Extremism | Allow | Sites promoting terrorism, racism, fascism, or other views that discriminate against people or groups of different ethnic backgrounds, religions, and other beliefs. In some regions, laws and regulations may prohibit allowing access to extremist sites, and allowing access may pose a liability risk. |
| Gambling | Allow | Sites that facilitate the exchange of real or virtual money through lotteries or gambling. Includes related sites that provide information, tutorials, or advice on gambling, such as how to bet odds and pools. |
| Grayware | Allow | Sites with content that don't pose a direct security threat but that display other intrusive behavior and tempt end users to grant remote access or perform other unauthorised actions. |
| Malware | Block | Sites containing or known to host malicious content, executables, scripts, viruses, trojans, and code. |
| Newly-Registered-Domain | Alert | Sites that have been registered within the last 32 days. Newly registered domains are often generated purposely or by domain generation algorithms and can be used for malicious activity. |
| Parked | Allow | URLs that host limited content or click-through ads, which may generate revenue for the host entity but generally don't contain content that is useful to end users. Includes domains that are for sale. |
| Phishing | Block | Web content that covertly attempts to harvest information, such as login credentials, credit card information, account numbers, PINs, and other personally identifiable information (PII), voluntarily or involuntarily, from victims using social engineering techniques. Includes technical support scams and scareware. |
| Questionable | Allow | Sites containing tasteless humor or offensive content targeting specific demographics of individuals or groups of people. |
| Ransomware | Block | Sites known to host ransomware or malicious traffic involved in conducting ransomware campaigns that generally threaten to publish private data or keep access to specific data or systems blocked, usually by encrypting it, until the demanded ransom is paid. Includes URLs that deliver related stealers, wipers, and loaders that may carry ransomware payloads. |
| Unknown | Allow | Sites that have not yet been identified by Palo Alto Networks. |
| Weapons | Allow | Sites that handle sales or offer reviews, descriptions of, or instructions regarding weapons, armor, bulletproof vests, and their use. |
| Abortion | Allow | Sites that pertain to information or groups in favor of or against abortion, details regarding abortion procedures, help or support forums for or against abortion, or sites that provide information regarding the consequences or effects of pursuing (or not) an abortion. |
| Alcohol-And-Tobacco | Allow | Sites that pertain to the sale, manufacturing, or use of alcohol or tobacco products, and related paraphernalia. Includes sites related to electronic cigarettes. |
| Artificial-Intelligence | Allow | Websites that use machine learning and deep learning models, including large language models, to provide services that would have typically required human intelligence. The services provided include but are not limited to chatbot, productivity, summarizer, transcriber, no-code, and audio or video editing-related services. Emphasis is given to websites hosting the actual AI service, not informational AI content. |
| Auctions | Allow | Sites that promote the sale of goods between individuals. |
| Business-And-Economy | Allow | Sites with content related to marketing, management, economics, entrepreneurship, or running a business, including the following: |
| Computer-And-Internet-Info | Allow | Sites that provide general information about computers and the internet. |
| Content-Delivery-Networks | Allow | Sites whose primary focus is delivering content, such as advertisements, media, files, and image servers, to third parties. |
| Cryptocurrency | Allow | Sites that promote cryptocurrencies, cryptomining (but not embedded crypto miners) sites, cryptocurrency exchanges and vendors, and sites that manage cryptocurrency wallets and ledgers. |
| Dating | Allow | Sites offering online dating services, advice, or other personal ads. |
| Dynamic-Dns | Allow | Sites that provide or utilize dynamic DNS services to associate domain names with dynamic IP addresses. |
| Educational-Institutions | Allow | Official sites for schools, colleges, universities, school districts, online classes, and other academic institutions. Also includes sites for tutoring academies. |
| Encrypted-Dns | Allow | Sites for DNS resolver service providers, which offer security and privacy for end users by encrypting DNS requests and responses using protocols like DNS over HTTPS (DoH). |
| Entertainment-And-Arts | Alert | Sites for movies, television, radio, videos, programming guides or tools, comics, performing arts, museums, art galleries, or libraries. |
| Financial-Services | Allow | Sites pertaining to personal finances or advice, such as online banking, loans, mortgages, debt management, credit card companies, foreign currency exchanges (FOREX), and insurance companies. Excludes sites related to health insurance, stock markets, brokerages, or trading services. |
| Games | Block | Sites that provide online play or downloads of video or computer games, game reviews, tips, cheats, or related publications and media. Includes sites that provide instructions for nonelectronic games, facilitate the sale or trade of board games, or support or host online sweepstakes and giveaways. |
| Government | Allow | Official websites for local, state, and national governments, as well as related agencies, services, or laws. |
| Hacking | Allow | Sites related to the illegal or questionable access to or use of communications equipment or software, including the development and distribution of such programs, how-to-advice, or tips that may result in the compromise of networks and systems. Includes sites that facilitate the bypass of licensing and digital rights systems. |
| Health-And-Medicine | Allow | Sites containing information regarding general health, issues, and traditional and nontraditional tips, remedies, and treatments. Includes sites for various medical specialties, practices, facilities (such as gyms and fitness clubs), and professionals. Sites related to medical insurance and cosmetic surgery are also included. |
| High-Risk | Allow | Sites that were previously confirmed to be malicious but have displayed benign activity for at least 30 days. Sites hosted on bulletproof ISPs or using an IP from an ASN that has known malicious content. Sites sharing a domain with a known malicious site. All sites in the “Unknown” category will be high risk. |
| Home-And-Garden | Allow | Sites with information, products, and services related to home repair and maintenance, architecture, design, construction, decor, and gardening. |
| Hunting-And-Fishing | Allow | Sites that provide hunting and fishing tips or instructions or facilitate the sale of related equipment and paraphernalia. |
| Insufficient-Content | Allow | Sites and services that present test pages, have no content, provide API access not intended for end-user display, or require authentication without displaying any other content suggesting a different categorisation. |
| Internet-Communications-And-Telephony | Allow | Sites that serve as a starting point for users, usually by aggregating a broad set of content and topics. |
| Internet-Portals | Allow | Sites that serve as a starting point for users, usually by aggregating a broad set of content and topics. |
| Job-Search | Allow | Sites that provide job listings, employer reviews, interview advice and tips, or related services for both employers and prospective candidates. |
| Legal | Allow | Sites that provide information, analysis, or advice regarding the law, legal services, legal firms, or other legal-related issues. |
| Low-Risk | Allow | Any site that is not High Risk or Medium Risk. This includes sites that were previously confirmed as malicious but have displayed benign activity for at least 90 days. |
| Medium-Risk | Allow | Sites confirmed to be malicious but have displayed benign activity for at least 60 days. All sites in the “Online Storage and Backup” category will be a medium risk by default. |
| Military | Allow | Sites with information or commentary on military branches, recruitment, current or past operations, or any related paraphernalia. Includes sites for military and veteran associations. |
| Motor-Vehicles | Allow | Sites with information relating to reviews, sales, trading, modification, parts, and other related discussions of automobiles, motorcycles, boats, trucks, and recreational vehicles (RVs). |
| Music | Allow | Sites related to music sales, distribution, or information. Includes websites for music artists, groups, labels, events, lyrics, and other information regarding the music business. Excludes music streaming sites. |
| News | Allow | Online publications, newswire services, and other websites that aggregate current events, weather, or other contemporary issues. |
| Not-Resolved | Allow | This category indicates that the website wasn't found in the local URL filtering database and the firewall was unable to connect to the cloud database to check the category. |
| Nudity | Block | Sites that contain nude or seminude depictions of the human body, regardless of context or intent, such as artwork. Includes nudist or naturist sites containing images of participants. |
| Online-Storage-And-Backup | Alert | Sites that provide online storage of files for free or as a service. Includes photo-sharing sites. |
| Peer-To-Peer | Block | Sites that provide access to or clients for peer-to-peer sharing of torrents, download programs, media files, or other software applications. Primarily applicable to those sites with BitTorrent download capabilities. Excludes shareware or freeware sites. |
| Personal-Sites-And-Blogs | Allow | Personal websites and blogs by individuals or groups. If such sites have a dominant topic associated with another category, they will be categorized with both categories. |
| Philosophy-And-Political-Advocacy | Allow | Sites containing information, viewpoints, or campaigns regarding philosophical or political views. |
| Private-Ip-Addresses | Allow | This category includes IP addresses defined in RFC 1918, 'Address Allocation for Private Intranets.' |
| Proxy-Avoidance-And-Anonymizers | Block | Proxy servers and other methods that bypass URL filtering or monitoring. |
| Real-Estate | Allow | Sites that provide information on property rentals, sales, and related tips or information. |
| Real-Time-Detection | Allow | |
| Recreation-And-Hobbies | Allow | Sites that consist of information, forums, associations, groups, or publications related to recreational activities and hobbies. |
| Reference-And-Research | Allow | Sites that provide personal, professional, or academic reference portals, materials, or services, including online dictionaries, maps, almanacs, census information, libraries, genealogy, and scientific information. |
| Religion | Allow | Sites with information regarding various religions, related activities, or events. Includes sites for religious organizations, religious officials, places of worship, fortune-telling, astrology, horoscopes, and religious paraphernalia. |
| Scanning-Activity | Block | |
| Search-Engines | Allow | Sites that provide a search interface using keywords, phrases, or other parameters that may return information, websites, images, or other files as results. |
| Sex-Education | Allow | Sites that provide information on reproduction, sexual development, safe sex practices, sexually transmitted diseases, birth control, tips for better sex, and any related products or paraphernalia. Includes sites for related groups, forums, or organisations. |
| Shareware-And-Freeware | Block | Sites that provide access to software, screensavers, icons, wallpapers, utilities, ringtones, themes, or widgets for free or donations. Includes open-source projects. |
| Shopping | Allow | Sites that facilitate the purchase of goods and services. Includes online merchants, sites for department stores, retail stores, catalogs, and price aggregation or monitoring tools. Sites in this category should be online merchants that sell a variety of items (or whose main purpose is online sales). |
| Social-Networking | Alert | User communities or sites where users interact with each other, post messages, pictures, and otherwise communicate with groups of people. |
| Society | Allow | Sites with content related to the general population or issues that impact a large variety of people, such as fashion, beauty, philanthropic groups, societies, or children. Includes restaurant websites. |
| Sports | Allow | Sites with information about sporting events, athletes, coaches, officials, teams or organisations, scores, schedules, related news, or sports paraphernalia. Includes websites for fantasy sports and virtual sports leagues. |
| Stock-Advice-And-Tools | Allow | Sites with information about the stock market, trading of stocks or options, portfolio management, investment strategies, quotes, or related news. |
| Streaming-Media | Block | Sites that stream audio or video content for free or purchase, including online radio stations, streaming music services, and the archiving of podcasts. |
| Swimsuits-And-Intimate-Apparel | Allow | Sites that include information or images concerning swimsuits, intimate apparel, or other suggestive clothing. |
| Training-And-Tools | Allow | Sites that provide online education, training, and related materials. Includes driving or traffic schools, workplace training, games, applications, tools with educational purposes, and tutoring academies. |
| Translation | Allow | Sites that provide translation services, including both user input and URL translations. These sites can also allow users to circumvent filtering as the target page's content is presented within the context of the translator's URL. |
| Travel | Allow | Sites that provide information about travel, such as tips, deals, pricing, destination information, tourism, and related services, such as booking or price monitoring tools. |
| Web-Advertisements | Sites with advertisements, media, content, and banners. Includes pages for subscribing and unsubscribing from newsletters or ads. | |
| Web-Based-Email | Allow | Sites that offer free or paid hosting services for webpages. Includes sites with information about web development, publication, promotion, and other methods of increasing traffic. |
| Web-Hosting | Allow | Sites that offer free or paid hosting services for webpages. Includes sites with information about web development, publication, promotion, and other methods of increasing traffic. |
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| ALLOW: Freely permit unrestricted browsing of approved websites ALERT: Enable website access while logging activity for weekly reporting BLOCK: Restrict access to specified websites, safeguarding network security |
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| Web Categories | Action | Definition |
| Abused-Drugs | Alert | Sites that promote the abuse of both legal and illegal drugs, the use and sale of drug-related paraphernalia, or the manufacturing or selling of drugs. |
| Adult | Block | Sites with any sexually explicit material, media (including language, games, or comics), art, or products, online groups or forums that are sexually explicit in nature, and sites that promote adult services, such as video or telephone conferencing, escort services, and strip clubs. |
| Command-And-Control | Block | Command-and-control (C2) URLs and domains used by malware or compromised systems to surreptitiously communicate with an attacker's remote server to receive malicious commands or exfiltrate data. |
| Copyright-Infringement | Block | Domains with illegal content, such as content that allows the illegal download of software or other intellectual property, which poses a potential liability risk. |
| Extremism | Block | Sites promoting terrorism, racism, fascism, or other views that discriminate against people or groups of different ethnic backgrounds, religions, and other beliefs. In some regions, laws and regulations may prohibit allowing access to extremist sites, and allowing access may pose a liability risk. |
| Gambling | Alert | Sites that facilitate the exchange of real or virtual money through lotteries or gambling. Includes related sites that provide information, tutorials, or advice on gambling, such as how to bet odds and pools. |
| Grayware | Block | Sites with content that don't pose a direct security threat but that display other intrusive behavior and tempt end users to grant remote access or perform other unauthorised actions. |
| Malware | Block | Sites containing or known to host malicious content, executables, scripts, viruses, trojans, and code. |
| Newly-Registered-Domain | Block | Sites that have been registered within the last 32 days. Newly registered domains are often generated purposely or by domain generation algorithms and can be used for malicious activity. |
| Parked | Block | URLs that host limited content or click-through ads, which may generate revenue for the host entity but generally don't contain content that is useful to end users. Includes domains that are for sale. |
| Phishing | Block | Web content that covertly attempts to harvest information, such as login credentials, credit card information, account numbers, PINs, and other personally identifiable information (PII), voluntarily or involuntarily, from victims using social engineering techniques. Includes technical support scams and scareware. |
| Questionable | Block | Sites containing tasteless humor or offensive content targeting specific demographics of individuals or groups of people. |
| Ransomware | Block | Sites known to host ransomware or malicious traffic involved in conducting ransomware campaigns that generally threaten to publish private data or keep access to specific data or systems blocked, usually by encrypting it, until the demanded ransom is paid. Includes URLs that deliver related stealers, wipers, and loaders that may carry ransomware payloads. |
| Unknown | Alert | Sites that have not yet been identified by Palo Alto Networks. |
| Weapons | Allow | Sites that handle sales or offer reviews, descriptions of, or instructions regarding weapons, armor, bulletproof vests, and their use. |
| Abortion | Allow | Sites that pertain to information or groups in favor of or against abortion, details regarding abortion procedures, help or support forums for or against abortion, or sites that provide information regarding the consequences or effects of pursuing (or not) an abortion. |
| Alcohol-And-Tobacco | Allow | Sites that pertain to the sale, manufacturing, or use of alcohol or tobacco products, and related paraphernalia. Includes sites related to electronic cigarettes. |
| Artificial-Intelligence | Block | Websites that use machine learning and deep learning models, including large language models, to provide services that would have typically required human intelligence. The services provided include but are not limited to chatbot, productivity, summarizer, transcriber, no-code, and audio or video editing-related services. Emphasis is given to websites hosting the actual AI service, not informational AI content. |
| Auctions | Allow | Sites that promote the sale of goods between individuals. |
| Business-And-Economy | Allow | Sites with content related to marketing, management, economics, entrepreneurship, or running a business, including the following: |
| Computer-And-Internet-Info | Allow | Sites that provide general information about computers and the internet. |
| Content-Delivery-Networks | Allow | Sites whose primary focus is delivering content, such as advertisements, media, files, and image servers, to third parties. |
| Cryptocurrency | Allow | Sites that promote cryptocurrencies, cryptomining (but not embedded crypto miners) sites, cryptocurrency exchanges and vendors, and sites that manage cryptocurrency wallets and ledgers. |
| Dating | Block | Sites offering online dating services, advice, or other personal ads. |
| Dynamic-Dns | Allow | Sites that provide or utilize dynamic DNS services to associate domain names with dynamic IP addresses. |
| Educational-Institutions | Allow | Official sites for schools, colleges, universities, school districts, online classes, and other academic institutions. Also includes sites for tutoring academies. |
| Encrypted-Dns | Allow | Sites for DNS resolver service providers, which offer security and privacy for end users by encrypting DNS requests and responses using protocols like DNS over HTTPS (DoH). |
| Entertainment-And-Arts | Allow | Sites for movies, television, radio, videos, programming guides or tools, comics, performing arts, museums, art galleries, or libraries. |
| Financial-Services | Allow | Sites pertaining to personal finances or advice, such as online banking, loans, mortgages, debt management, credit card companies, foreign currency exchanges (FOREX), and insurance companies. Excludes sites related to health insurance, stock markets, brokerages, or trading services. |
| Games | Block | Sites that provide online play or downloads of video or computer games, game reviews, tips, cheats, or related publications and media. Includes sites that provide instructions for nonelectronic games, facilitate the sale or trade of board games, or support or host online sweepstakes and giveaways. |
| Government | Allow | Official websites for local, state, and national governments, as well as related agencies, services, or laws. |
| Hacking | Block | Sites related to the illegal or questionable access to or use of communications equipment or software, including the development and distribution of such programs, how-to-advice, or tips that may result in the compromise of networks and systems. Includes sites that facilitate the bypass of licensing and digital rights systems. |
| Health-And-Medicine | Allow | Sites containing information regarding general health, issues, and traditional and nontraditional tips, remedies, and treatments. Includes sites for various medical specialties, practices, facilities (such as gyms and fitness clubs), and professionals. Sites related to medical insurance and cosmetic surgery are also included. |
| High-Risk | Block | Sites that were previously confirmed to be malicious but have displayed benign activity for at least 30 days. Sites hosted on bulletproof ISPs or using an IP from an ASN that has known malicious content. Sites sharing a domain with a known malicious site. All sites in the “Unknown” category will be high risk. |
| Home-And-Garden | Allow | Sites with information, products, and services related to home repair and maintenance, architecture, design, construction, decor, and gardening. |
| Hunting-And-Fishing | Allow | Sites that provide hunting and fishing tips or instructions or facilitate the sale of related equipment and paraphernalia. |
| Insufficient-Content | Allow | Sites and services that present test pages, have no content, provide API access not intended for end-user display, or require authentication without displaying any other content suggesting a different categorisation. |
| Internet-Communications-And-Telephony | Allow | Sites that serve as a starting point for users, usually by aggregating a broad set of content and topics. |
| Internet-Portals | Allow | Sites that serve as a starting point for users, usually by aggregating a broad set of content and topics. |
| Job-Search | Alert | Sites that provide job listings, employer reviews, interview advice and tips, or related services for both employers and prospective candidates. |
| Legal | Allow | Sites that provide information, analysis, or advice regarding the law, legal services, legal firms, or other legal-related issues. |
| Low-Risk | Allow | Any site that is not High Risk or Medium Risk. This includes sites that were previously confirmed as malicious but have displayed benign activity for at least 90 days. |
| Medium-Risk | Alert | Sites confirmed to be malicious but have displayed benign activity for at least 60 days. All sites in the “Online Storage and Backup” category will be a medium risk by default. |
| Military | Allow | Sites with information or commentary on military branches, recruitment, current or past operations, or any related paraphernalia. Includes sites for military and veteran associations. |
| Motor-Vehicles | Allow | Sites with information relating to reviews, sales, trading, modification, parts, and other related discussions of automobiles, motorcycles, boats, trucks, and recreational vehicles (RVs). |
| Music | Allow | Sites related to music sales, distribution, or information. Includes websites for music artists, groups, labels, events, lyrics, and other information regarding the music business. Excludes music streaming sites. |
| News | Allow | Online publications, newswire services, and other websites that aggregate current events, weather, or other contemporary issues. |
| Not-Resolved | Allow | This category indicates that the website wasn't found in the local URL filtering database and the firewall was unable to connect to the cloud database to check the category. |
| Nudity | Block | Sites that contain nude or seminude depictions of the human body, regardless of context or intent, such as artwork. Includes nudist or naturist sites containing images of participants. |
| Online-Storage-And-Backup | Block | Sites that provide online storage of files for free or as a service. Includes photo-sharing sites. |
| Peer-To-Peer | Block | Sites that provide access to or clients for peer-to-peer sharing of torrents, download programs, media files, or other software applications. Primarily applicable to those sites with BitTorrent download capabilities. Excludes shareware or freeware sites. |
| Personal-Sites-And-Blogs | Allow | Personal websites and blogs by individuals or groups. If such sites have a dominant topic associated with another category, they will be categorized with both categories. |
| Philosophy-And-Political-Advocacy | Allow | Sites containing information, viewpoints, or campaigns regarding philosophical or political views. |
| Private-Ip-Addresses | Allow | This category includes IP addresses defined in RFC 1918, 'Address Allocation for Private Intranets.' |
| Proxy-Avoidance-And-Anonymizers | Block | Proxy servers and other methods that bypass URL filtering or monitoring. |
| Real-Estate | Allow | Sites that provide information on property rentals, sales, and related tips or information. |
| Real-Time-Detection | Block | |
| Recreation-And-Hobbies | Allow | Sites that consist of information, forums, associations, groups, or publications related to recreational activities and hobbies. |
| Reference-And-Research | Allow | Sites that provide personal, professional, or academic reference portals, materials, or services, including online dictionaries, maps, almanacs, census information, libraries, genealogy, and scientific information. |
| Religion | Allow | Sites with information regarding various religions, related activities, or events. Includes sites for religious organizations, religious officials, places of worship, fortune-telling, astrology, horoscopes, and religious paraphernalia. |
| Scanning-Activity | Block | |
| Search-Engines | Allow | Sites that provide a search interface using keywords, phrases, or other parameters that may return information, websites, images, or other files as results. |
| Sex-Education | Allow | Sites that provide information on reproduction, sexual development, safe sex practices, sexually transmitted diseases, birth control, tips for better sex, and any related products or paraphernalia. Includes sites for related groups, forums, or organisations. |
| Shareware-And-Freeware | Block | Sites that provide access to software, screensavers, icons, wallpapers, utilities, ringtones, themes, or widgets for free or donations. Includes open-source projects. |
| Shopping | Allow | Sites that facilitate the purchase of goods and services. Includes online merchants, sites for department stores, retail stores, catalogs, and price aggregation or monitoring tools. Sites in this category should be online merchants that sell a variety of items (or whose main purpose is online sales). |
| Social-Networking | Block | User communities or sites where users interact with each other, post messages, pictures, and otherwise communicate with groups of people. |
| Society | Allow | Sites with content related to the general population or issues that impact a large variety of people, such as fashion, beauty, philanthropic groups, societies, or children. Includes restaurant websites. |
| Sports | Allow | Sites with information about sporting events, athletes, coaches, officials, teams or organisations, scores, schedules, related news, or sports paraphernalia. Includes websites for fantasy sports and virtual sports leagues. |
| Stock-Advice-And-Tools | Allow | Sites with information about the stock market, trading of stocks or options, portfolio management, investment strategies, quotes, or related news. |
| Streaming-Media | Allow | Sites that stream audio or video content for free or purchase, including online radio stations, streaming music services, and the archiving of podcasts. |
| Swimsuits-And-Intimate-Apparel | Allow | Sites that include information or images concerning swimsuits, intimate apparel, or other suggestive clothing. |
| Training-And-Tools | Allow | Sites that provide online education, training, and related materials. Includes driving or traffic schools, workplace training, games, applications, tools with educational purposes, and tutoring academies. |
| Translation | Allow | Sites that provide translation services, including both user input and URL translations. These sites can also allow users to circumvent filtering as the target page's content is presented within the context of the translator's URL. |
| Travel | Allow | Sites that provide information about travel, such as tips, deals, pricing, destination information, tourism, and related services, such as booking or price monitoring tools. |
| Web-Advertisements | Sites with advertisements, media, content, and banners. Includes pages for subscribing and unsubscribing from newsletters or ads. | |
| Web-Based-Email | Allow | Sites that offer free or paid hosting services for webpages. Includes sites with information about web development, publication, promotion, and other methods of increasing traffic. |
| Web-Hosting | Allow | Sites that offer free or paid hosting services for webpages. Includes sites with information about web development, publication, promotion, and other methods of increasing traffic. |
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