Web Reputation Profiles

Web Reputation Services (WRS) scrutinizes URLs before users access potentially dangerous websites, especially sites known to be phishing or pharming sites. Employing WRS, Cloud Edge provides real-time protection, conserves system scanning resources, and saves network bandwidth by preventing the infection chain or breaking it early. Web Reputation technology guards end-users against emerging web threats. Because a Web Reputation query returns URL category information (used by URL filtering), Cloud Edge does not use a locally-stored, URL database.

Web Reputation technology assigns reputation scores to URLs. For each accessed URL, Cloud Edge queries Web Reputation for a reputation score and then takes the necessary action, based on whether this score is below or above the user-specified sensitivity level.

Cloud Edge provides anti-phishing and anti-pharming protection through Web Reputation, if it is enabled.

The web reputation database resides on a remote server. When a user attempts to access a URL, Cloud Edge retrieves information about this URL from the web reputation database and stores it in the local cache. Having the web reputation database on a remote server and building the local cache with this database information reduces the overhead on Cloud Edge and improves performance.

Note:

If you deploy the Cloud Edge gateway with hardware switch chipset in Bridge Mode, only the High Security intranet security setting supports Web Reputation Services for intranet traffic.
With the Balanced and High Speed intranet security settings, intranet traffic is not scanned.
All three intranet security settings support Web Reputation Services on the external network.