URL filtering policy

URL filtering policy is a security policy that provides a protection from threats coming from the Internet by preventing access to malicious URLs and downloading content. For more information on the URL filtering functionality, see this section of the Acronis Cyber Protection User Guide.

The following example can be used when creating a protection plan with this protection policy:

Policy example

{
    # Put a unique ID of the policy here.
    'id': '',
    # URL filtering policy type is 'policy.security.url_filtering'
    'type': 'policy.security.url_filtering',
    'parent_ids': [
        # Put the ID of total protection policy here.
    ],
    'origin': 'upstream',
    'enabled': True,
    'settings_schema': '2.0',
    'settings': {
        # A list of blocked websites. Must be a hostname or IP address.
        'blocked_urls': [],
        # A list of categories with the access rules. Each category should have either 'ALLOW' to allow access to the category or 'BLOCK' to disallow access.
        'categories': {
            'advertisement': 'ALLOW',
            'advice': 'ALLOW',
            'blogs': 'ALLOW',
            'business': 'ALLOW',
            'computers_and_software': 'ALLOW',
            'drugs': 'ALLOW',
            'education': 'ALLOW',
            'entertainment': 'ALLOW',
            'file_sharing': 'ALLOW',
            'financial': 'ALLOW',
            'gambling': 'ALLOW',
            'games': 'ALLOW',
            'government': 'ALLOW',
            'hacking': 'ALLOW',
            'hate': 'ALLOW',
            'health': 'ALLOW',
            'hobbies': 'ALLOW',
            'hosting': 'ALLOW',
            'illegal': 'ALLOW',
            'internet_messenger': 'ALLOW',
            'job_search': 'ALLOW',
            'mature_content': 'ALLOW',
            'narcotics': 'ALLOW',
            'news': 'ALLOW',
            'online_dating': 'ALLOW',
            'online_pay': 'ALLOW',
            'online_photos': 'ALLOW',
            'online_shop': 'ALLOW',
            'porn': 'ALLOW',
            'portals': 'ALLOW',
            'radio_music': 'ALLOW',
            'religion': 'ALLOW',
            'search_engines': 'ALLOW',
            'social_networks': 'ALLOW',
            'sports': 'ALLOW',
            'suicide': 'ALLOW',
            'tabloids': 'ALLOW',
            'time_wasters': 'ALLOW',
            'travel': 'ALLOW',
            'videos': 'ALLOW',
            'violent_cartoons': 'ALLOW',
            'weapons': 'ALLOW',
            'webmail': 'ALLOW',
            'webproxy': 'ALLOW'
        },
        # An option to show a notification in system tray when accessing a blocked website.
        'categories_access': 'ALERT',
        # A list of trusted websites. Must be a hostname or IP address.
        'trusted_urls': [],
        # An option to prompt for user interaction or block the website without asking.
        # Note: User interaction is available only for HTTP websites. HTTPS websites are blocked immediately.
        'website_access': 'ALWAYS_ASK_USER'
    }
}