Method 3: Enterprise Console and Appliance with LiveConnect
Optionally, you can deploy full web control with LiveConnect enabled. Data is exchanged exactly
as it is in Method 2, except that users have access to a cloud service that allows roaming endpoints
to connect with the designated Web Appliance without you having to grant special access through
your organization’s firewall or reconfigure any externally facing network services.
It does so by providing a bridge between outbound HTTP connections made by the endpoint and
its managing Appliance (as shown above).This allows the endpoint to apply the same web-filtering
rules for roaming users as they would get when protected by a gateway appliance.
Benefits of Endpoint Web Control
While the Sophos Web Appliance provides security and productivity protection for systems
browsing the web from within your corporate network, Endpoint Web Control extends this protection
to users’ machines.This provides protection, control, and reporting for endpoint machines that
are located, or roam, outside your corporate network.
Enterprise Console can deliver Web Control policies to your endpoint machines that provide
malware protection and productivity rules based on common site categorizations. With the
combination of Sophos Enterprise Console and a Sophos Web Appliance it is possible to extend
your Full Web Policy to endpoint machines, providing more than 50 site categories, highly flexible
policy configuration, and detailed reporting on threats and usage.
Related concepts
eDirectory on page 128
Related tasks
Endpoint Web Control on page 144
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