700-765 · Question #183
What feature of web security filters websites based on who what where, how, and when to assign a website a score?
The correct answer is B. Reputation Filtering. Reputation Filtering assigns websites a trust score by evaluating multiple contextual signals including ownership, content type, hosting location, behavior, and domain age.
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What feature of web security filters websites based on who what where, how, and when to assign a website a score?
Options
- ASandbox Filtering
- BReputation Filtering
- CMalware Filtering
- DURL Analytics
How the community answered
(40 responses)- A5% (2)
- B93% (37)
- D3% (1)
Why each option
Reputation Filtering assigns websites a trust score by evaluating multiple contextual signals including ownership, content type, hosting location, behavior, and domain age.
Sandbox Filtering executes suspicious files or URLs in an isolated virtual environment to observe behavior - it does not assign scores based on contextual attributes of a website.
Reputation Filtering uses a multi-factor scoring model that evaluates who owns the domain, what content it serves, where it is hosted, how it behaves over time, and when it was registered to generate a numeric trust score. This score is then used by the web security platform to allow, block, or warn users before a connection is established. Cisco Web Security Appliance and similar products use this scoring as a primary enforcement mechanism.
Malware Filtering scans content for known malicious signatures or heuristic patterns, not a holistic scoring of websites using contextual who/what/where/how/when factors.
URL Analytics refers broadly to analyzing URL structure and patterns for categorization, but it is not the specific mechanism that combines multiple contextual signals to produce a reputation score.
Concept tested: Web reputation scoring and filtering mechanism
Source: https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/support/security/web-security-appliance/products-user-guide-list.html
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