Specify the Safe Search setting

You can configure the Safe Search policy to apply one of the following filters to search results returned by Google, Bing and Yahoo!

• Do not filter explicit content in your search results.
• Filter explicit images and video.
• Filter explicit text, images and video.

For Safe Search to work when using Google, you must enable HTTPS Content Scanning on your Gateway. See HTTPS Analysis Policy. Safe Search does not support results obtained from yahoo.co.jp. Not all search engines have different search options for text and for images/video. It is possible that selecting the option to filter images and video only might also have the effect of filtering text.

Safe Search is a global setting which affects all users accessing the Internet through your configured Gateway. You can also provide more (or less) restrictive filtering by applying Safe Search to policy routes.

How do I...

• Specify the Global Safe Search setting?

  1. Navigate to Policy > Manage Policy Definition > Global Web Policy. The Global Web Policy page is displayed.
  2. In the Safe Search panel, click Click here to change these settings.
  3. Select Enforce Safe Search to filter explicit content to enable Safe Search.
  4. Select one of the following options:
  • Filter explicit images and video.
  • Filter explicit text, images and video.
  5. Click Save.
  6. Apply the configuration.
• Override Safe Search policy for a specific policy route?

  1. Create a Safe Search Filtering content rule.
  2. Configure the content rule and select DO NOT Filter search results as the Primary Action.
  3. Create a machine list or a user name list which contains your selected users.
  4. Create an Internet Zone containing *.bing.*, *.google.* and *.yahoo.*
  5. Create a Web Policy Route between your selected users and the new Internet Zone.
  6. Apply the Safe Search Filtering content rule to the policy route.
  7. Apply the configuration.
• Prevent users from accessing other search sites?

  1. Create an Internet Zone (Safe Search Engines) containing *.bing.*, *.google.* and *.yahoo.*
  2. Create an Internet Zone (Search Engines) with the selected URL category: Reference > Search.
  3. Create a Web policy route between Everyone and Safe Search Engines with a Primary Action of Allow Traffic.
  4. Create a Web policy route between Everyone and Search Engines with a Primary Action of Block Traffic.
  5. Apply the configuration.

If you change any configuration or policy settings, you must Apply Configuration for the new settings to take effect. You can do this either from the Changes Made panel, or System > Configuration > Apply Configuration. See Apply new configuration for more information. If you use Peer Gateways (i.e. when multiple Gateways are peered), any configuration changes from a local Gateway can then be applied to all the peers at the same time. See Configure Peer Gateways for more information.

See also...

• Content rules
• Internet Zones
• Policy Routes