Hello, A Sophos Firewall Home User here.. I have been dealing with an issue that I am not sure how to tackle. I want to block access to all adult sites in my network, and even though the firewall categorizes the obvious ones in the right way, there…

Hello team, We would like to know which Category unblocks the Buil-in copilot that is coming with Microsoft Edge. Is there an exception be made specific to co-pilot alone?

Why is Hulu in the category "General Internet" rather than Streaming Media? And why is Hulu listed as Risk Level 4 (High)?

Greetings good afternoon community team I have a question In the log viewer I see blocked attempts to access some websites with Category "Sexually Explicit" I want to search for older logs but the log viewer only gives me data up to 2 days ago, I…

Hello, I'm using web filtering on XG firewall. Can someone tell me where and how i can block all domains in .zip and .mov for all users? Thank you in advance.

Good morning Sophos Community, We have weapons as an allowed category in our Sophos Firewall but today - a user tried to go to a site, and it was blocked as weapons. I dug through the Firewall and can't figure out what is configured incorrectly.

Hi, i would say if there are any updates about this: Categories - External URL Database Sync - Discussions - Sophos Firewall - Sophos Community

Maybe this is a tricky one. I want to block all TikTok like content on my network. Block TikTok is easier because TikTok only offers TikTok like content (short videos algorithm suggested and etc) But YouTube and Instagram it's different. I…

Sophos is awesome and amazing and like other people here have requested it would be amazing if we could import adblocking lists like this one. https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts If you can already achieve this could someone please help me. I found…

Hi. i need to allow youtube for specific user in web policy we are using ip based policy.so please help me .

Moin Zusammen, kann mir einer mal erklären, warum diese Sophos Webdienste alle unter der Kategorie "none" laufen? Sophos Ähm, die Kategorie "none" gehört mit zu den ersten Dingen, auf die wir normalerweise als erstes den Zugriff sperren. Sollte…

Hi, We have setup network DLP before the firewall which is connected like, Endpoint >> L2Switch >> Network DLP (centos uses Proxy) >> Sophos Firewall. For Example website Web.workline.hr This website comes under the hrms category which is allowed…

Hej, I would like to block all url shorteners. Is there a corresponding option in the XG? I have only found the possibility to maintain a list manually or to include an external URL database. Can anyone support me with this? Thanks! Best Regards…

Hey there, I have a web filter policy like that: Why there is a web request blocked which is in a category which is not blocked by the web policy? Thanks!

Hi , I am on Sophos XG 18.5. URL to block: www.google.com/.../ads.js I have added a custom blocking category with keyword filters like below www.google.com/adsense/search/ads.js search/ads.js adsense/search/ads.js but this does not block…

Hi. Regarding Sophos XG, under menu Protect --> Web ---> Categories I have created an external URL database to keep a centralized Black List of domains. it works fine but it seems that it only refreshes the contents of the .txt file every 24/48…

Hello there, Can we export a list of default categories that can be blocked by Sophos? If we can save this as pdf or word file , it would be good Thank you.

Hi I have a requirement to block some streaming sites such as Youtube from user access. I know it can be done by using the native default Video Hosting Category. However, when we use that, it block all video hosting services. I want to use more specific…

If I do a policy test for https://sophostest.com/adult/index.html the Web Protection Category is marked as "Information Technology" If I do a policy test for http://sophostest.com/adult/index.html the Web Protection Category is marked as " Sexually…

Hi, I'm new to XG and am setting up web content filtering. I may be missing something, but I'm trying to set up an "Activities" group adding my own selection of Categories, and I don't see "porn" as a category. I do see "Sexually Explicit", but the…

Hi Everyone I want to use create a custom Category pointing to an external URL database. The category seems to work fine is the numbers of records is relative small (I've tried <200). Does anyone know what the max record limit for external URL database…

Today i was trying to edit a custom Web categorie. This Categorie consists of both URL's as well as keywords. My purpose was tot delet the last keyword in the categorie. This does not seem to be possible. When i delete the last enkeyword entry and click…

Since i am downloading lots of different files, perusable from different categories (.lha .rar, .exe, .d81 ) etc, i thought the best way to deal with this was just to add an ;'exception' in Sophos XG under "Web" Basically, its Amiga manuals and such…

Hi, is there a way to group whole URLs to a custom Webcategory? Example: MyBusinessSites: * https://mybank.com/subsite1 * https://marketing.com/mycomany and so on? PaloAlto firrewalls have these feature.

Hi I have a customer that was almost successfully phished due to heavy domain squatting that tricked the user into thinking it was a company owned domain.Seemed to be one of those trying to trick users into entering credentials and then harvesting those…