Hello, first post, still learning. For an IOS policy, under Supervised Settings, Web Content Filtering, Specified Sites only, is there a way to import a list of approved websites, or do they have to be entered individually?  Thanks.

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Sam Hornbaker
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Hi Sam
Unfortunately at native iOS level the requirement is to manually populate all the URL's to block, which is obviously a time-consuming effort. 
Some things our customers do to get around this: 

1. - Use the MaaS360 Secure Browser with URL filtering. Heads-up that you may need a higher licence level in order to perform this. 
2. - Use a proxy server on your network to filter out URL's when traffic are coming through  your network ie when users are connected to your corporate WiFi or VPN. 
3. - Use an application to filter traffic locally on the device. (proxy-type app). 

IBM does not recommend any specific product outside of its own product offering. 
However you would be able to perform a search for the products mentioned in lines 2 and 3. 
If you have any more questions please let me know. 
Best

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Eamonn O'Mahony
Technical Client Success Manager
IBM Security
Dublin, Ireland
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Thanks, I appreciate the suggestions. I'll check out the secure Browser.

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Sam Horn
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Original Message:
Sent: Fri July 29, 2022 04:45 AM
From: Eamonn O'Mahony
Subject: Supervised Web Content Filtering

Hi Sam
Unfortunately at native iOS level the requirement is to manually populate all the URL's to block, which is obviously a time-consuming effort. 
Some things our customers do to get around this: 

1. - Use the MaaS360 Secure Browser with URL filtering. Heads-up that you may need a higher licence level in order to perform this. 
2. - Use a proxy server on your network to filter out URL's when traffic are coming through  your network ie when users are connected to your corporate WiFi or VPN. 
3. - Use an application to filter traffic locally on the device. (proxy-type app). 

IBM does not recommend any specific product outside of its own product offering. 
However you would be able to perform a search for the products mentioned in lines 2 and 3. 
If you have any more questions please let me know. 
Best

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Eamonn O'Mahony
Technical Client Success Manager
IBM Security
Dublin, Ireland
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