Web Content Filtering

Enforce acceptable use policies (AUPs) with cloud-based web content filtering for your headquarters, remote offices, and mobile workers on company managed devices. You can use predefined categories, custom categories, and categories for apps, security risks, YouTube, and silent ad blocking.

Solution brief

About Web Content Filtering

Monitor and enforce
acceptable use policies

Netskope provides web content filtering for over 120+ categories, covering languages for over 200+ countries and 99.9% of the active web. Netskope also provides dynamic web page classifications, custom categories, app categories, YouTube categories, and silent ad blocking, as well as a site lookup tool and reclassification service.

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Shift your threat prevention to the cloud,
for the cloud

61%

of malware is cloud delivered

Source: Netskope Cloud and Threat Report, 2021

Web content filtering
use cases

Categories and languages

Enforce web filtering for over 120+ categories and languages for 200+ countries covering 99.9% of the active web. Cloud-based enforcement can allow, block, and coach users on acceptable use policies for web and app categories, plus much more.

URL filtering for 120+ categories, languages for 200+ countries, and 99.9% of the active web
Filtering includes YouTube categories, app categories, translation services, safe search, and silent ad blocking
Dynamic web page categorization for 70 categories in 16 languages, plus site lookup tool and reclassification service
Security risk categories, plus use the Cloud Threat Exchange (CTE) for bi-directional threat intelligence sharing including malicious URLs
Create custom web filtering categories, plus allow and deny lists

Custom categories

Allows you to define your own custom categories, or your own URL include or exclude lists. API-enabled updates for custom categories provide you the ability to automate and schedule updates, as desired.

Dynamic page classifications

Uses supervised machine-learning analysis to dynamically rate new and unknown web page content for 70+ categories in 16 languages, plus more.

Rate new and unknown web page content for 70+ categories
Natural Language Processing (NLP) covers 16 languages
Detect DGA domains of modern malware using deep neural networks
Leverages machine learning for URL grouping and tokenization to increase web filtering coverage

Security risk categories

Prevents known threats and delivers immediate insights into the type of specific security risks, with 16 granular security risk categories. Examples include: Botnets, Phishing/Fraud, DGA Detection, and Malware Call-home security risks.

Silent ad blocking

Blocks web pages from connecting to ad servers for banners, ads, videos, pop-ups, and other elements, including analytical trackers and widgets from social media. The net result is a more focused user web experience and optimal use of browser space.

Site lookup & reclassification

Enables your administrators or support team to look up specific URLs and websites to view their current category classification and when required, submit requests to the reclassification service. Also, exception list URLs can be monitored and cleaned-up after reclassifications and new, dynamic page classifications.

URL filtering for 120+ categories, languages for 200+ countries, and 99.9% of the active web
Filtering includes YouTube categories, app categories, translation services, safe search, and silent ad blocking
Dynamic web page categorization for 70 categories in 16 languages, plus site lookup tool and reclassification service
Security risk categories, plus use the Cloud Threat Exchange (CTE) for bi-directional threat intelligence sharing including malicious URLs
Create custom web filtering categories, plus allow and deny lists

Uses supervised machine-learning analysis to dynamically rate new and unknown web page content for 70+ categories in 16 languages, plus more.

Rate new and unknown web page content for 70+ categories
Natural Language Processing (NLP) covers 16 languages
Detect DGA domains of modern malware using deep neural networks
Leverages machine learning for URL grouping and tokenization to increase web filtering coverage

The Netskope
Security Cloud

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Netskope Intelligent SSE is built on the Netskope Security Cloud, a platform that provides unrivaled visibility and real-time data and threat protection when accessing cloud services, websites, and private apps from anywhere, on any device.

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Netskope is not just about security cloud apps, they have expanded into web security and zero-trust private access to become our default security cloud vendor.”

Paarin Mehta

Information Security Supervisor

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Resources

Web Content Filtering
resources

Report

Cloud and Threat Report: Global Cloud and Web Malware Trends

In this edition of the Cloud Threat Report, we examine the past twelve months of malware downloads from the cloud and web. We highlight continued dominance of Trojans and of malware that targets Microsoft Windows, and a rise in malicious PDF files linked from popular search engine results.