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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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Question

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)
  • A
    5% (2)
  • B
    93% (37)
  • D
    3% (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.

ASandbox Filtering

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.

BReputation FilteringCorrect

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.

CMalware Filtering

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.

DURL Analytics

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

Topics

#web security#reputation filtering#URL scoring#website classification

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