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I was wondering if you are still blocking advertisements and if it is still a management nightmare. I am the only admin in a govt agency and was hoping to block ads but I am concerned about going down this road even though it seems like a prudent security related approach. I opened a post called Advertisement Filtering and asked for feedback on this from WebSense Customers. Thanks for your

I have had WS 7.6 standalone running for a week in monitor mode. Today I configured a new policy with new category and protocol filters. I assigned this policy to the IP address of a test machine. When test pc browses to a gambling site I am not blocked but WS says it is/was blocked. I browsed the forums and guides- Placed the monitoring nic in promiscuous mode and even tried adding the IP of the server to the eimserver.ini. with no help. One thing I saw reference to was the browser service needs

Since I applied the policy to an IP I was thinking that maybe order of precedence was the issue. I thought IP would take precedence over the user but maybe I had that wrong. To be sure I also assigned the User directly to the same policy and ran testlogserver agiain. time= Tue Aug 30 14:18:01 2011 version= 5 server= 10.20.161.xx source= 10.20.xx URL= www.flalottery.com protocol= 1 - http port= 80 networkDirection= Inbound method= contentType = category= 13 - GAMBLING categoryReason= 0 - CatNone disposition

I too am planning to migrate from surfcontrol to WebSense Security with a CheckPoint. I was hoping to be able to increase our coverage of other DMZ's by integrating port 80 filtering with the CheckPoint and then hanging network agent off of a monitoring port to capture other protocol traffic. We have a nifty device that can aggregate traffic from multiple dmz's and filter out the port 80 traffic going to the monitoring port reducing the overhead. While I am in favor of this my management