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68 Administrator’s Guide SurfControl Web Filter v5.5
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SurfControl Categories
SurfControl’s Adaptive Threat Intelligence team have the ability to dynamically add new categories via an
Internet Threat Database update. For this reason SurfControl categories are read only, and appear in the
Category Object list with the following icon:
You cannot re-name or delete them from within SurfControl Web Filter. SurfControl categories do not
support SmartScan. You must create a custom category to use this functionality.
Custom Categories
The Category object enables you to create custom categories, which can contain any of the following:
• One or more of the pre-defined SurfControl categories.
• Keywords that are matched against the domain level of a URL, using SmartScan.
Custom categories you create will appear in the Category object list with the following icon:
Custom categories can be re-named and deleted by right-clicking a selected category. If a SurfControl
category is added or re-named, and it has an identical name to a custom category you created, your
custom category will be amended with brackets containing a number, for example; custom(1).
Figure 7-10 Category List object properties.
1 Enter a name for your new category.
2 Select one or more of the SurfControl Categories you want to include in your new category.
3 If you want to refine the category match, select a category you are including in the object and click
SmartScan. Enter the keywords that you wish to match for any domains that will be allocated to the
category. The keyword must form all or part of the domain level URL.
Example:
Entering ‘football’ will match the following URLs: