![]() Please note that quotas aren’t applicable in web control and ‘Warn’ is the default option for quotas. This is to avoid inconsistent mappings between content filter actions and users/groups. To begin the process of setting up endpoint protection, you should create a new web filtering policy that will be used with your web control polices. It is also responsible for gathering status information or notifications to send back to the server, this is done by storing it locally so it can be picked up by the MCS client to send to the LiveConnect, which will then be removed once LiveConnect has acknowledged the update.Ĭ:\ProgramData\Sophos\Management Communication System\Endpoint\Logs\MCSAgent.log The application of Web Control Proxy Web Profiles – Web Protection > Web Filtering Profiles The agent service processes the information received from the client, and uses adapters to apply configurations to the endpoint components. The final thing the client does is notify LiveConnect of the status of the agent, and removing local cached information that has been successfully actioned.Ĭ:\ProgramData\Sophos\Management Communication System\Endpoint\Logs\MCSClient.log Sophos MCS Agent This information is then forwarded to the MCS Agent which will use then process the execute command from the client. ![]() An example command is “Fetch New Policy”, and once received it will execute it and download it to “C:\ProgramData\Sophos\Management Communication System\Persist”. This is a service installed on the machine, and is responsible for checking in with LiveConnect periodically in 20 second intervals for new commands via a secure HTTPS connection. There are two services that are installed by the MCS installer, which are used to check and process information downloaded and stored via LiveConnect. How does Web Control communicate with the UTM?īefore anything you must first have Endpoint Protection (EP) enabled on the UTM, and deploy the agents on the corporate machines. However your corporate polices require that your web access is restricted to the sites that you need, and to block any websites that could cause harm to the machine. That is until your IT Administrators install the Sophos UTM Endpoint Protection on the machine, which will do its best to protect your computer from malware that attempts to infect it. However, when you take your corporate computer back home you are no longer being protected by a sophisticated next generation firewall, rather your only protection is your home router which does nothing but block incoming traffic, it can’t detect dangerous files that you are downloading or warn you of malicious websites. ![]() It will perform a variety of checks to protect you from most of the threats we are exposed to on the Internet. ![]() When in an office with a Sophos UTM, all of your traffic should be filtered by it. It does this by storing a local copy of the central UTM web URL filtering policy, so that when a computer is connected to a remote network (like one at home) and not routing traffic through ha UTM appliance, URL filtering rules are still enforced via the Web Control feature. Web Control is a feature of the Endpoint Protection installed on client machines from their organisation’s UTM/s and provides remote web filtering without them needing to be in the office. ![]()
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