Purpose: The purpose of this thread is to help us better advise customer on the impact on Web Filtering Behaviour[/b] of going to 9.3xx[/b]
Backstory: With 9.3xx, Sophos have changed the default categorisation from CFFS a.k.a McAfee TrustedSource SmartFilter XL to SXL aka Sophos XL Categorisation. This change is a long time coming since McAfee acquired TrustedSource, and Sophos acquired Astaro - when Sophos already had their in-house categorisation engine.
Differences
- Gone from 3 categories per website to 1 category per website. Things that were blocked/allowed will change. Trusted Source uses upto three categories, whereas Sophos uses only one. So if a profile uses a secondary categorisation, then this will be lost - assuming that SXL has the same primary categorisation as CFFS.
Questions
- Do the old and new categories lineup/overlap/superset/etc.? E.g. do we still have Incidental Nudity - essential to enable for Fashion Students in colleges.
- Speed. Is SXL faster than memory-cached CFFS?
- Choice. Are we forced to use only SXL from 9.3xx onwards?
- Documentation. Where do we find it?
- Cyberoam. What do they use and is it better than SXL? Will we have to change again?
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