WSS Admin Guide

Implementing Web Security Service

To implement Web Security Service, Customer Admins should follow this sequence of configuration tasks, if not already configured by your service provider:

1. Configure Web Security Service as described in the Desktop Web Proxy Quick Start Guide. This guide describes how to:

• Verify the IP address range of your account.
• Configure web traffic and verify connectivity.
• Deploy Desktop Web Proxy (DWP) to Windows computer.
• Set DWP configurations and implement recommendations.

2. If needed, provide other administrators with access rights to the Management Portal. For more information, see Viewing Admin Permission Levels.

3. Modify default policies or create new ones, and adjust web filtering categories.

4. Implement policies to control access to certain categories of websites by allowing or blocking access, or by displaying an informational dialog where they can continue. For more information about policies, see Viewing Polices.

5. Define groups and assign policies to those groups.

6. Web Security Service identifies a group either by its users (user group) or by the IP addresses (IP group) from which web traffic originates. For more information, see Viewing Groups.

7. Add users to groups. For more information, see Viewing User Information.

8. If needed, bypass web filtering for particular websites, such as internal intranets and trusted resources. For more information, see Bypassing Web Filtering.