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The Content Filtering section allows you to configure and control the access that clients will have when connecting to the WiFi service, denying access to certain sites that you do not want. All the options in the Content Filtering Module are detailed below.
How it works
How do you determine which URLs are benign and which are malicious, and how do you perform these checks in real time?
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It is important to take into account that the necessary technical requirements are met to enable the functionality. |
Technical requirements
The Content Filtering functionality is based on the filtering of DNS requests and is therefore compatible with any deployed WLAN solution and does not require the installation of any specific equipment. However, it is necessary to fulfill some technical requirements in order to enable this functionality, which are detailed below.
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It is advisable to block in the routers or firewalls of the network the DNS requests to DNS servers other than those delivered by DHCP. In this way we can guarantee that users cannot bypass the filtering.
Filtering categories
In the following file you can see the 53 types of content filtering available in Octopus Platform.
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