Web Reputation settings include policies that dictate whether Apex One (Mac) will block or allow access to a website. To determine the appropriate policy to use, Apex One (Mac) checks the location of the Security Agent. The location of a Security Agent is "internal" if the Security Agent can connect to the Apex One (Mac) server. Otherwise, the location for the Security Agent is "external".
When the policy is enabled, external Security Agents send web reputation queries to the Smart Protection Network.
If a Security Agent only has an IPv6 address, read the IPv6 limitations for Web Reputation queries in Pure IPv6 Agent Limitations.
The security levels determine whether Apex One (Mac) will allow or block access to a URL. For example, if you set the security level to Low, Apex One (Mac) only blocks URLs that are known to be web threats. As you set the security level higher, the web threat detection rate improves but the possibility of false positives also increases.
When the policy is enabled, internal Security Agents send web reputation queries to:
Smart Protection Servers if the Send queries to Smart Protection Servers option is enabled.
Smart Protection Network if the Send queries to Smart Protection Servers option is disabled.
If a Security Agent only has an IPv6 address, read the IPv6 limitations for Web Reputation queries in Pure IPv6 Agent Limitations.
If you enable this option, Security Agents refer to the same smart protection source list used by Apex One Security Agents to determine the Smart Protection Servers to which they send queries.
Before enabling this option, read the guidelines in Trend Micro Smart Protection.
If you disable this option, Security Agents send web reputation queries to Smart Protection Network. Endpoints must have Internet connection to send queries successfully.
The security levels determine whether Apex One (Mac) will allow or block access to a URL. For example, if you set the security level to Low, Apex One (Mac) only blocks URLs that are known to be web threats. As you set the security level higher, the web threat detection rate improves but the possibility of false positives also increases.
Security Agents do not block untested websites, regardless of the security level.
Apply to All Agents: Applies settings to all existing Security Agents and to any new Security Agent added to an existing/future group. Future groups are groups not yet created at the time you configure the settings.
Apply to Future Groups Only: Applies settings only to Security Agents added to future groups. This option will not apply settings to new Security Agents added to an existing group.