Does Wingate cater for a "whitelist"

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Does Wingate cater for a "whitelist"

Postby normandp » Oct 17 16 11:32 pm

Hi

We need to implement a proxy server in a "secured" environment whereas we only want to allow users to access certain pre-approved websites. Does Wingate cater for such a "whitelist" implementation?
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Re: Does Wingate cater for a "whitelist"

Postby MattP » Oct 18 16 9:46 am

Hi,

Yes absolutely you can whitelist your access with WinGate. The simplest way to do this is with the Web Access rules.

Access rules are evaluated from the top down, when a request is received by the WWW proxy it is compared to the top rule in the list. If the request matches the rule then the rule result is returned, if not the request falls through to the next rule and so on, until a result is returned or the default rule is hit, at which time the default rule result is returned.

So to set up access for whitelisting you would set the default rule to deny access and then add a rule that allows access to the sites that are on your whitelist. A request to a whitelisted site will match your rule and be allowed, any other request won't match your rule and will fall through to the default rule, where it will be denied.

You can set up your whitelist in the WinGate console in Control Panel::Data::Global Data. Add a new list and enter the sites to whitelist, using either pattern match for wildcard entries or exact match if not using wildcards. You can also link to text files if you have a Professional or Enterprise license.

Once you have configured your list you can then use a manual classifier rule to check a request against your list and categorise the request, or you can match against the list from inside your access rule.

When you enter the sites for your whitelist make sure that you also get the sites that resources are loaded from, otherwise css and image files may not be loaded.

Regards,

Matt
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