How do I block a website on FortiGate firewall 100d?

1) Go to the Security profile -> Web Filter, select ‘Create New’ or edit existing web filter profile. Navigate to option called ‘FortiGuard category based filter’, expand ‘Security Risk’ category and then find the sub-category ‘Malicious Websites’,select it and select the option as ‘Block’.

What is web filtering in FortiGate firewall?

URL filter is also called static URL filter. By adding specific URLs with patterns containing text and regular expressions, FortiGate can allow, block, exempt, and monitor web pages matching any specified URLs or patterns, and can display a replacement message instead.

How do I enable web filters?

To enable URL Filtering: Click Devices. Select a group, then click Configure Policy. Under Web Threat Protection, click URL Filtering. To enable, switch the toggle button to the right (Enable URL Filtering).

How do I allow only one website on Fortigate?

Technical Note: How to allow one website while blocking all…

  1. Go to Security Profile > Web filter.
  2. Select the web-filtering profile that is to be applied on the security policy that is used for web traffic.
  3. Create two static URL filters, as displayed in the following screenshot:

What does Web filtering do?

Web filtering software monitors and manages the locations where users are browsing on the Internet, enabling an organization to either allow or block web traffic in order to protect against potential threats and enforce corporate policy.

How does FortiGuard Web filtering work?

FortiGuard Web Filtering works by using DNS web filtering — employing DNS lookups to get webpage ratings that determine whether webpages will be blocked or redirected. DNS filtering services are available to manage the process.

How do I turn off FortiGate web filter?

Filtering

  1. Go to System > FortiGuard.
  2. Scroll down to the Filtering section.
  3. Configure the settings as needed: Web Filter Cache. Enable/disable web filter cache, and set the amount of time that the FortiGate will store a blocked IP address or URL locally.
  4. Click Apply.

How do you allow only specific websites and block all FortiGate?

1) Go to Security Profile > Web filter. 2) Select the web-filtering profile that is to be applied on the security policy that is used for web traffic. This configuration will block everything except any URL’s which contain fortinet.com.

How do I exclude a website in FortiGate?

Select to exclude URLs that are explicitly blocked or allowed….Edit Web Security exclusion lists

  1. On the Web Security tab, click the Settings.
  2. Click the Exclusion List.
  3. Click the Add icon to add URLs to the exclusion list.