Bad URLs Categorizations Error on Web

I send several URL requests but they are still not committed. No porn sites. [:D]

Even after months they are still not categoriesed. (None)  [:S] 

Also i think they should enhance the url submission center. If you think the same, please vote for my "feature request": 

https://ideas.sophos.com/forums/330219-xg-firewall/suggestions/32557672-url-feedback-enhancement

I voted the feature request. I would recommend to Sophos to add web category override. This option is available on UTM9.

Regards

I opened this feature request:

https://ideas.sophos.com/forums/330219-xg-firewall/suggestions/33264490-web-category-and-reputation-override-like-utm

Regards

When I go to the Diagnostic tab in my XG and type in those URLs in the URL Category lookup they all seem to come back as "Sexually Explicit" which is what I would expect.  If you test from there are you also getting the bad categorization?

WEB filtering is a broken thing in XG.

Ultra known web sites are wrongfully categorized.  This one among many others :

If you can't categorize Intel properly, you have no business to do whatsoever in WEB filtering.  Before we decommissioned all Sophos products here, we would have similar results with ultra-known IBM (and many others) as well.  Another example: our Corporate bank Account categorized as "Job Search".  Users would knock at my door many times a day.  In the end I removed WEB filtering.  Also, users were able to access forbidden web sites indirectly.  By doing a Google search, and clicking on the resulting page.  It was not reliably repeatable however.  Symantec old WEB gateway, "Spywall", would do that too.  This why I checked Sophos' WEB appliance.  Symantec new WEB gateway, "Blue Coat", do not do that.

PJR

Hi,

according to my XG, 1, 2 and 5 are correctly categorised, but 3 and 4 are not categorised eg not found in the database.

Ian

Forgot to mention ... XG WEB filtering is a moving target.  One day a WEB site could be ok.  The day after, it is not. Then the following day, it is ok ...

PJR

Hi,

to give you an idea I have in my daily reports over 20,000 uncategorised websites and that is with 2 (on 4 devices) active users and about 20 devices. Which in my mind means the automatic feedback which I ticked during installation is ignored.

Considering how much effort went into convincing Sophos XG development (v15) team to provide multiple updates to anti-virus etc every day instead of once a week for a product they were pushing as being state of the art firewall left a bad feeling in everyone mind.

I would like this product to work as I do see a future for it, but the UTM still runs rings around it for firewall security.

Ian

Sophos always dare us, to send URL requests for further investigation. But the sad thing is that even when i send them months ago, they are still not categorized. [^o)]

20,000 uncategeorized websites per day sounds horrible. [:(]

Hi,

here an extract from yesterday executive report just to give you an idea of what I am talking about.

Ian