User`s guide

Trend Micro™ Web Protection Module 1.0 Administrator’s Guide
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Blacklist and Whitelist Policies
The Web Protection Module Blacklist-Whitelist Wizard enables you to create and
maintain global lists of Web sites in the form of policies that you can use to control your
user’s Web access. After you have defined these policies, you use them to create Custom
Tasks that you can then apply to your endpoints.
There are two types of URL lists that you can create and group into policies by using the
Wizard:
• Blacklists – These are lists of blocked Web sites. If the endpoint tries to access a
site on one of these lists, it receives a message in its Web browser indicating that
access to the site has been blocked.
• Whitelists – These are lists of Web sites that you allow your endpoints to access
without restriction.
Note: Use care when selecting sites for Whitelists. After a site is added to a Whitelist, it will
no longer be checked. Therefore, endpoints connecting to that site would no longer
be protected by WPM, should that site become a host for malware at some point in
the future.
By creating multiple tasks, you can apply different sets of Blacklist and Whitelist policies
to different users or groups of users. You can perform the following tasks using the
Wizard:
• Create and Deploy a New Blacklist / Whitelist Policy
• Create and Deploy a New Blacklist / Whitelist Policy by importing an existing list
• View an existing Blacklist / Whitelist Policy
• Copy a Blacklist / Whitelist Policy
• Copy and edit a Blacklist / Whitelist Policy
• Delete a Blacklist / Whitelist Policy
Note: The Blacklist/Whitelist file import feature requires that ActiveX controls are enabled
in your browser. If you do not have this feature enabled, you will receive an error. For
more information, check:
http://support.bigfix.com/cgi-bin/kbdirect.pl?id=514.