Introduction to Transparent User Identification

 

Related topics: Websense transparent identification agents Combining transparent identification agents Transparent identification agent configuration settings Transparent identification of off-site users

Websense Web Security solutions let you define custom filtering policies for different individuals or groups within your organization.

In any environment, you can assign policies to individual computers (identified by IP address), or networks (groups of contiguous IP addresses).

If your environment includes a supported directory service, you can configure Websense software to also filter directory clients: users, groups, and domains (OUs).

To apply policies to users, groups, and other directory clients, Websense software must be able to identify the user making a request, given the originating IP address. Any of 4 methods can be used to identify users:

An integration product can be configured to pass user information to Websense software.

One or more Websense transparent identification agents can be used to retrieve user information.

Websense software can prompt users for logon information when they open a browser.

With Websense Web Security Gateway Anywhere, Directory Agent can collect directory information to the hybrid service, allowing users to be identified transparently when they connect to hybrid filtering. See the TRITON - Web Security Help (version 7.5 or version 7.6) to find Directory Agent configuration details.

This paper describes the deployment, configuration, and use of Websense transparent identification agents (second method above), including frequently asked questions and troubleshooting information.