Blocked and Approved List Templates

The Web Reputation Blocked-Approved List Wizard enables you to create and maintain global lists of websites in the form of templates that you can use to control your users’ web access. Once you have defined these templates, you use them to create Custom Tasks, which you can then apply to your endpoints.

There are two types of URL lists you can create and group into templates using the Wizard:

Blocked Lists: These are lists of blocked websites. If the endpoint tries to access a site in one of these lists, they receive a message in their web browser indicating that access to the site is blocked.
Approved Lists: These are lists of websites you allow your endpoints to access without restriction.

Note: Use care when selecting sites for Approved Lists. Once a site is added to an Approved List, it will no longer be checked. Therefore, endpoints connecting to that site would no longer be protected by WR, should that site become a host for malware at some point in the future.

By creating multiple tasks, you can apply different sets of Blocked and Approved List templates to different users or groups of users. You can perform the following tasks:

Create and deploy a New Blocked / Approved List Template
Create and deploy a New Blocked / Approved List Template by importing an existing list
View an existing Blocked / Approved List Template
Copy a Blocked / Approved List Template
Copy and edit a Blocked / Approved List Template
Delete a Blocked / Approved List Template