October 2011 - Posts

Remote Filtering client 7.6 timeout settings
31 Oct 2011 8:50 AM

I Cant seem to find the setting for the 7.6 clients time out. when you are running the 7.6 web security it has options for 7.5 and earlier but no options for 7.6 clients. I have looked for it during the install of the client but I was not able to find...

by General

Email attribute required for adding admin to Triton
31 Oct 2011 5:54 AM

When adding administrators to the "Triton Settings" section in Triton, we noticed that users without email addresses were not being displayed. I looked through the documentation and could not see this as a requirement for an AD account to be...

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DSS Network Discovery Tasks File | Table Filtering - Skipped or Not Reported?
28 Oct 2011 1:46

Hi! When setting up Network Data Discovery Task file filtering and folder exclusions, does the crawler literally skips the files/folders? (actually improve disk access scanning perfomance) ... or does the crawler scan but just not report those files discovered...

by Management and Administration

Streaming Media: News category
28 Oct 2011 8:39 AM

I'd like to see a category for Streaming Media: News or perhaps News Video (similar to the new "Educational Video" category). We don't have a problem with news video (CNN, MSNBC, etc.), but want to block streaming sites like Hulu &...

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Streaming traffic being flagged
27 Oct 2011 11:37 AM

It seems that after upgrading our Websense components to 7.6.2, I have seen an extreme increase in high severity incidents that are being flagged as "Encrypted File: Encrypted data of unknown format" that happens to be streaming content from...

by General

Automatic Hotfix updates
27 Oct 2011 8:54 AM

I think it would be great if the Websense Web Security products had a feature built in to view, download, and install hotfixes relative to the version you are administering. Read More...

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Advertisement Filtering Blocking
27 Oct 2011 6:16 AM

We migraded from surfcontrol to websense 7.6 and I am currently working to make the case to management to block advertisements because they ad little or no value to business, are a key source of malware, and utilize considerable bandwidth. After reading...

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Policy for common copyrighted material
27 Oct 2011 5:57 AM

Our client is looking for a policy that can detect copyrighted movies and music. They would like to ensure there is no pirated content on their network. We could do this with file type content classifiers but this could potentially create an abundance...

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all users block
25 Oct 2011 7:14 AM

All of our users are receivng a block message on all site browsing even the google sit that we never block. This run for 10 minute ad everythin goes well for the rest of the day. It is like Websens is using our default policie that block everything. In...

by Managing Policies for Clients

AD user permissions required to query the Global Catalogue Server (s)
25 Oct 2011 3:32 AM

Hi All, Wonder if there is anyone who can answer this question. Been trying to make a stripped down service account that can be used to query the catalogue server to setup policy’s for users. Seems like the only way I can get it to work in either...

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