Web access control

Restringe el acceso a categorías web y a URLs individuales desde equipos Windows y macOS para optimizar del ancho de banda de la red y mejorar la productividad en la empresa.

The web access control feature supports:

  • The HTTP and HTTPS protocols

  • The HTTP/3 (QUIC) protocol

  • Content Delivery Networks (CDN). These networks speed up content delivery but conceal the true intended destination of the connection.

To enable or disable it, click the Enable Web access control toggle.

Configuring time periods for the web access control feature

This option enables you to limit access to certain website categories and denied sites during business hours and authorize it during non-business hours and weekends.

To configure Internet access time limits, select the Enable only during the following times option.

Specify when you want to enable web access control. On the calendar, select the days and hours when you want to enable it.

  • Click the day to select the whole day.

  • Click and drag the squares to select multiple days and times.

  • To select every day of the month, click the Select all button.

  • Click Clear to disable web access control for all of the times selected.

Denying access to specific web pages

Panda Adaptive Defense 360 groups the web pages it classifies into 160 content categories. To deny access to a certain type of web content category, select it from the list.

If a user visits a web page that belongs to a forbidden category, a warning page appears that indicates that access is denied and the reason.

Denying access to pages categorized as unknown

To deny access to pages characterized as unknown, enable the Deny access to pages categorized as unknown toggle.

Internal and intranet sites accessible on ports 80 and 8080 could be categorized as unknown. To avoid this, add exclusions for internal pages you want to allow.

List of allowed/denied addresses and domains

You can configure a list of pages that are always allowed (allowlist) or blocked (blocklist), regardless of the category that they belong to:

  • In the text box, enter the URL of the relevant IP address or domain.

  • Click Add.

  • To edit the list, use the Delete and Clear buttons.

  • To save the setting, click OK.

You can add multiple similar domains to a list with a single domain entry. To do this, you add the part of the domain name that is common to all of the domains you want to add. The wildcard character (*) is not supported.

For example, https://www.mydomain.com/test can represent these and additional domains:

  • https://www.mydomain.com/test/test2.htm

  • https://www.mydomain.com/testing.htm

  • https://www.mydomain.com/test/test2/

Database of URLs accessed from computers

Each computer on the network keeps a database of the URLs accessed from it. This database is located in:

%ProgramData%\Panda Security\Security Protection\urlcounters.dg

This database is in SQLite3 format and can only be accessed from the computer for a period of 30 days.

The data stored is this:

  • User ID.

  • Protocol (HTTP or HTTPS).

  • Domain.

  • URL

  • Returned category.

  • Action (Allow/Deny).

  • Date accessed.

  • Access count (by category and domain).