Web Protection
Web Protection is now disabled by default for:
- New customer accounts.
- Existing customers without Web Protection enabled.
Customers currently using Web Protection continue to have access.
What you need to know
- Customers looking for web security solutions can consider N-able DNS Filtering as an alternative option.
- Further updates available in the Release Notes.
Web Protection is supported on Windows devices only and does not support IPv6.
Use Web Protection to provide web security, filtering, and bandwidth monitoring for your customers in the All Devices view. It installs on monitored devices and gives full visibility into browser and application-based online activity, including incognito sessions. You can monitor visited websites, their categories and reputations, and bandwidth usage.
Access to configure, use, and view Web Protection, depends on the user permissions assigned to each role.
Get started with Web Protection
- Review the Web Protection Requirements.
- Configure Web Protection policies.
- Policies control all aspects of Web Protection.
- You can use the default policies or create custom ones.
- You can choose to display a taskbar icon, with notifications on monitored devices to let users Web Protection is running.
- Enable Web Protection and assign Policy.
- Deploy Web Protection where you need it; all clients, sites, or individual devices.
- When you enable Web Protection, assign the appropriate policy for each case.
To use Web Protection for monitoring, you can:
- View Web Protection data
- Refresh Web Protection data
- Generate a Web Protection Overview Report
- Build a custom Web Protection Report
- Look up website categorization and reputation
- Snooze Web Protection
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