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SiteAdvisor Enterprise and Web Filtering for Endpoint
policies
McAfee SiteAdvisor Enterprise leverages McAfee Global Threat Intelligence to provide reputation ratings
for web sites using a color-coded system — primarily Red, Yellow, and Green, based on the risk
associated with a given site (for example, “Red sites” hosting malware). Annotations are made in the
browser, in search engine results (shown below), as well as links in IM and email programs such as
Microsoft Outlook and Outlook Express.
By combining Web Filtering for Endpoint with SiteAdvisor, administrators can also enforce policies
regarding content categories, such as pornography, gambling, and other undesired sites. The two
components are managed via the SiteAdvisor policies.
Administrators can set policies that determine which sites managed systems can access, create
customized block messages, and prevent users from disabling the client software on managed systems.
NOTE: By default SiteAdvisor will block access to Red sites, display a warning message for Yellow sites
but allow access, and allow access to Green and unrated (Gray) sites. By default Web Filtering for
Endpoint does not block any sites based on their content categorization. We’ll see how to create a
sample URL filtering policy below.
Ratings Enforcement on File Downloads
The following SiteAdvisor policy enables file download rating and email annotations. In other words,
SiteAdvisor will enforce the Red\Yellow\Green rating on file downloads, as well as on the web sites
themselves. For instance a site may have both Red and Green downloads. This policy would block the
download of Red (dangerous) files, but allow the download of Green (safe) files.
1 Click the System Tree button on the favorites bar.
2 Highlight My Organization.
3 Click the Assigned Policies tab.
• From the Product drop-down menu, select SiteAdvisor Enterprise Plus 3.5.
• On the line that lists General, click Edit Assignment.
• For Inherit from, select Break inheritance and assign the policy and settings below.
• From the Assigned Policy drop-down menu, select EASI General Policy.
• Click Save. The policy is now assigned to that group and all its subgroups.