Configure Protection Settings for Devices and Networks
- cWatch Office filters websites based on their content type, or 'category'.
- Examples categories include adult websites, gambling sites, news sites, social media sites and sporting websites. Protection settings let you to define categories to be allowed and blocked on devices.
- Default protection settings will be applied to the devices immediately upon enrollment.
- You can view the default settings by clicking 'Default Settings' in the overall protection status tile displayed in the dashboard
- You can use the default cWatch settings or you can configure custom settings for particular devices.
Click the links below to know about configuring protection settings:
Enable / disable containment feature (Windows devices only)
To configure containment:
- Click on a Windows device in the left-hand menu
- Containment status is shown in the main, protection summary tile:
Containment is enabled by default. The following applies when containment is enabled:
- Files with an 'unknown' trust-rating will be run in a secure virtual environment, isolated from the underlying file system and user data. A green border is shown around the application window.
- Details about the file are sent to Valkyrie, a verdicting system that analyzes the file to determine whether it is safe or malicious. See https://valkyrie.comodo.com/ for more information.
- You can see the results by logging into Valkyrie at https://valkyrie.comodo.com/login with your cWatch Office credentials. See https://help.comodo.com/topic-397-1-773-9563-Introduction-to-Comodo-Valkyrie.html for more help with this.
- If an unknown file is found to be safe it will be allowed to run normally next time.
- Click 'Learn More' for an explanation of containment.
Configure protection settings for a device
To configure protection settings for a device:
- Select the device from the left pane to open its 'Device Overview' page
- Click
the gear icon
at top-right of the protection status tile
The 'Device Web Browsing Settings' for the device will open. It contains the settings as per the default protection settings shipped with cWatch Office.
From this page, you can:
Select blocked Website Categories
- The 'What Do You Want To Block?' area lets you decide which website categories are allowed or blocked on the device. The categories in this area are those which many organizations may considering blocking:
- Select 'Yes' to categories you want block
- Select 'No' to categories you want to allow
The 'Additional Categories' area lets you allow or block categories which are less 'clear-cut'. Your company may or may not wish to block them:
- Select 'Block' for categories you want restrict
- Select 'Allow' for categories you want to permit
Whitelist or Blacklist Websites
- Whitelisted sites will be allowed and blacklisted sites will be blocked regardless of the category to which they belong. For example, if you block access to 'Shopping websites', but decide to white-list 'example-shop.com', then 'example-shop.com' will be allowed.
- You can add as many websites as you want to the whitelist/blacklist for a device. The list will be active only for the specific device.
To add websites to whitelist
- Enter the domain name (without 'www.') in the text box below 'Do you want to whitelist any websites?' and click the '+' button.
- Repeat the process to add more websites
- To remove a website, place your mouse over the website name and click 'x'
To add websites to whitelist
- Enter the domain name (without 'www.') in the text box below 'Do you want to blacklist any websites?' and click the '+' button.
- Repeat the process to add more websites
- To remove a website, hover your mouse over the website name and click 'x'
- Click 'Save' for your settings to take effect
The protection settings will be saved and immediately applied to the device.
