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Your organization's devices are running Windows 10 Anniversary Update (version 1607) or later with the latest antivirus/antimalware updates. You have access to Microsoft 365 Defender portal ( ). Your subscription includes one of the following: Windows 10 Enterprise E5, Microsoft 365 E5, Microsoft 365 E5 Security, Microsoft 365 E3 + Microsoft 365 E5 Security add-on, or the Microsoft Defender for Endpoint standalone license. Your security team can access web reports in the same central location, with visibility over actual blocks and web usage.īefore trying out this feature, make sure you meet the following requirements: Your security team can conveniently deploy policies to groups of users using device groups defined in Microsoft Defender for Endpoint role-based access control settings. Users are prevented from accessing websites in blocked categories, whether they're browsing on-premises or away. For more information about browser support, see the prerequisites section. Web content filtering is available on the major web browsers, with blocks performed by Windows Defender SmartScreen (Microsoft Edge) and Network Protection (Chrome, Firefox, Brave, and Opera). Your users will see a block notification if an element on the page they're viewing is making calls to a blocked resource. Your users can access the URLs without disruption, and you'll gather access statistics to help create a more custom policy decision. For any category that's not blocked, the URLs are automatically audited. Blocking a category prevents users within specified device groups from accessing URLs associated with the category.
Many of these websites, while not malicious, might be problematic because of compliance regulations, bandwidth usage, or other concerns.Ĭonfigure policies across your device groups to block certain categories. It enables your organization to track and regulate access to websites based on their content categories. Web content filtering is part of the Web protection capabilities in Microsoft Defender for Endpoint.
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