ASA 5515x and web content filtering

[venerayan]

hi all

i tried adding a content rule on my asa 5515x, it say i don' t have one configured in configuration/firewall/url filtering.  when i got there, i need to configure either websense or smartfiler.  Are those free or I need to purchase that from those vendor?  My 5515x is security plus, is that included there?

does asa 5515x have it's own filtering without going to third party vendor?

thanks for any comment you may add.

[Julio Carvajal]

Hello Ricarte,

If you want to use those options you need a server that perfoms those options,

You can do it with the modular policy framework and the ASA and regex

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/ps6120/products_configuration_example09186a0080940c5a.shtml

[Karsten Iwen]

As already mentioned, the MPF has the capability to filter on URLs. But that is quite limited and in my opinion not usable at all (unless you only have a couple of FQDNs to filter that don't change often). If you need more functionality and you want to stay on the ASA you could deploy ASA-CX. Otherwise you could deploy a dedicated proxy and force your users to use that proxy. That could be the best solution in your environment.


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