Seqrite Enterprise Mobility Management application management securely manages the use of the browser used by mobile devices with Android and iOS operating systems. WEB Security Management allows you to filter Web content, create whitelists, blacklists, as well as block specific keywords and URLs.
The Web Security configuration helps you restrict web access of users, devices by blocking categories based on websites, blacklisting URLs, blacklisting certain URLs of a website regardless of domain, blacklisting or White keywords and providing anti-malware, phishing and malicious website protection.
The default Web Security configurations are created, when a new device is added. With the help of this option, you can create new Web Security configurations and later, they can be applied to Android devices. You can easily create few icons for your launcher by blacklisting the URLs for easy navigation.
Note: For iOS devices, you can only whitelist or blacklist the websites or use auto filter.
Adding Web Security configuration
To create new Web Security configurations, follow these steps:
- Log on to the Seqrite EMM console and in the left pane, click Profiles > Configurations > Add Configuration.
- In the Add list, select Web Security. The Create Web Security Configuration page is displayed.
- Enter Configuration Name, select the Security Settings options by selecting the Browsing Protection, Phishing Protection, and Web Filtering check boxes.
- To make the web security configuration default, select the Default check box.
Note: Selecting the Default check box, will mark this web configuration as default and will be applied automatically to the newly added devices. - Click Next. The Web Categories section is displayed. The Web Categories page includes a list of options to select the categories.
- To block any of the Web category, select the check boxes as per your requirement. To choose all the Web categories, select the Select All check box. Select Default to select the default Web categories.
Note: To block all the URLs with the bad language and sexually explicit language on iOS devices, select the AutoFilter (applicable for iOS devices only) check box. - Click Next. The Blacklist/Whitelist URLs section is displayed.
- Enter a URL in the Enter Keyword or URL to filter web access text box and click Add.
- The keyword or URL gets added to the Blacklist. To move the blacklisted URL into the whitelist or vice-versa, double-click the keyword or URL. You can add any keyword or URL to the blacklist or whitelist. You can also block keywords, URLs, or domains by adding specific keywords. Also, add the keywords from URL or domain name to blacklist or whitelist.
- To move all the blacklisted Keywords or URLs to Whitelist, click Whitelist All.
- To move all the whitelisted Keywords or URLs to Blacklist, click Blacklist All.
- To whitelist URLs and display them in the form of icons on the launcher, select the Create Icon on the Launcher for Whitelisted URL check box. This helps easy browsing of the links without adding them to the browser.
- Click Save. Web Security configuration is created successfully.
Note:
- On the Android device, the Web Security configuration will work only on the Google Chrome browser.
- The Web Security configuration will work only on the supervised iOS devices.
Web Security Configuration Overview
After the Web Security configuration is created, the Web Security Configuration Details page is displayed.
To navigate directly to the Web Security Configuration Details page, follow these steps:
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Log on to the Seqrite EMM console and in the left pane, click Profiles > Configurations > select a configuration > click Edit icon. The Web Security Configuration Details page is displayed. The following options are available.
Note: To view and edit the Web Security configurations, you must click the Edit icon available next to the Web Security configuration only.
- Overview: This section helps to view the entire Web Security configuration details. You can view the Web Security Details such as Setting Name, Browsing Protection, Phishing Protection, Web Filtering, Total Devices, and Default status. You can also view recently added devices. To display all the devices added to the selected configuration, click Show all.
- Edit: With Edit, the Web Security configuration details can be edited and the default configurations can be assigned.
Editing Web Security Configuration
The Edit tab includes Edit details, Web Categories, Blacklist/Whitelist URLs, and Devices.
Edit details
With this option, you can edit the Web Security configuration added to the Seqrite Enterprise Mobility Management console.
Editing web security configuration details
To edit the configurations, follow these steps:
- Log on to the Seqrite EMM console and in the left pane, click Profiles > Configurations.
- Select the Web security configuration, which is to be edited and click the Edit icon > Edit tab > Edit details.
- You can edit the configuration name and security settings such as Web categories and Blacklist/Whitelist URLs.
- You can create the icons of the white listed URLs for easy access of the links on your launcher.
- You can edit the configuration name and security settings such as Browsing Protection, Phishing Protection, and Web Protection.
- Select the Default check box to make the configuration as the default Web Security configuration.
Note: The default Web Security configuration will be applied to the newly added device. - Click Save. The Web Security configuration details are edited successfully.
Web Categories
This section helps you to select and block the Web categories and to stop the user from accessing blocked websites.
Blocking Web Categories
To block the Web categories, follow these steps:
- Log on to the Seqrite EMM console and in the left pane, click Profiles > Configurations.
- Select the configuration to be edited and click Edit icon > Edit tab > Web Categories. The Web Security configuration details page is displayed.
- Select the check boxes of the Web categories, which are to be blocked.
- If required, select the following options:
- Select All: Helps you to select all the Web categories check boxes.
- Reset: Helps you to reset the Web categories configuration.
- Default: Helps you to remove the customized settings and apply the default settings of Seqrite Enterprise Mobility Management.
- To save the configuration, click Save. The Web categories are blocked successfully.
Blacklist/Whitelist URLs
Websites on mobile devices will be allowed/blocked based on the added keywords/URL(s) in blacklist/whitelist. In this section, you can edit the black listed or white listed keyword or URL. You can easily create the icons for the white listed URLs on the Launcher by selecting the “Creating icon on the Launcher for Whitelisted Url” check box.
Blacklisting or whitelisting the URLs
For details to black list or white list any URLs or keywords follow the steps mentioned in Adding Web Security Configurations section, the 8th step.
Devices
The Devices section helps you to view the number of devices to which the Web Security configuration is applied. You can also add more devices to apply the Web Security configuration.
Applying Web Security configuration to the devices
To apply configurations on the device, follow these steps:
- Log on to the Seqrite EMM console and in the left pane, click Profiles > Configurations.
- Select the Web Security configuration and click Edit icon > Edit tab > Devices > Apply configuration to device. The Apply configuration to devices dialog box is displayed.
- Select the devices to which you want to apply the configuration and click Apply. The Web security configuration is applied successfully.
Note: In Web Security, the URL blocking works for Android devices on Chrome browser only.