Force Strict Safe Search (Strata Cloud Manager)

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Force Strict Safe Search (Strata Cloud Manager)

If you’re using Panorama to manage Prisma Access:

Toggle over to the PAN-OS & Panorama tab and follow the guidance there.

If you’re using Strata Cloud Manager, continue here.

Enable Safe Search Enforcement in a URL Access Management profile.
1. Select ConfigurationNGFW and Prisma Access Security ServicesURL Access Management.
2. Under URL Access Management Profiles, select an existing profile or Add Profile to create a new one. Configuration options appear.
3. Under Settings, select Safe Search Enforcement.
4. Save the profile.
(Optional) Restrict the search engines that end users can access.
1. Select ConfigurationNGFW and Prisma Access Security ServicesURL Access Management.
2. Under Access Control, Search (
  
  ) for the search-engines category.
3. Set Site Access for the search-engines category to block.
  In a later step, you’ll create a custom URL category (URL List type) with the search engines you want to allow.
4. Save the profile.
Apply the URL Access Management profile to Security policy rules that allow traffic from clients in the trust zone to the internet.
To activate a URL Access Management profile (and any Security profile), add it to profile group and reference the profile group in a Security policy rule.

Edit the URL Access Management safe search block page, replacing the existing code with JavaScript for rewriting search query URLs.

Select ManageConfiguration Security ServicesURL Access ManagementResponse Pages.
Export HTML Template for URL Access Management Block Page.

Use an HTML editor and replace all of the existing block page text with the following text. Then, save the file.

<html>
  <head>
    <title>Search Blocked</title>
    <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">
    <meta http-equiv="pragma" content="no-cache">
    <meta name="viewport" content="initial-scale=1.0">
    <style>
      #content {
      border:3px solid#aaa;
      background-color:#fff;
      margin:1.5em;
      padding:1.5em;
      font-family:Tahoma,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;
      font-size:1em;
      }
      h1 {
      font-size:1.3em;
      font-weight:bold;
      color:#196390;
      }
      b {
      font-weight:normal;
      color:#196390;
      }
    </style>
  </head>
  <body bgcolor="#e7e8e9">
    <div id="content">
      <h1>Search Blocked</h1>
      <p>
        <b>User:</b> 
        <user/>
      </p>
      <p>Your search results have been blocked because your search settings are not in accordance with company policy.  In order to continue, please update your search settings so that Safe Search is set to the strictest setting. If you are currently logged into your account, please also lock Safe Search and try your search again.</p>
      <p>
        For more information, please refer to: 
        <a href="<ssurl/>">
          <ssurl/>
        </a>
      </p>
      <p id="java_off"> Please enable JavaScript in your browser.<br></p>
      <p><b>Please contact your system administrator if you believe this message is in error.</b></p>
    </div>
  </body>
  <script>
    // Grab the URL that's in the browser.
    var s_u = location.href;
    //bing
    // Matches the forward slashes in the beginning, anything, then ".bing." then anything followed by a non greedy slash. Hopefully the first forward slash.
    var b_a = /^.*\/\/(.+\.bing\..+?)\//.exec(s_u);
    if (b_a) {
       s_u = s_u + "&adlt=strict";
        window.location.replace(s_u);
        document.getElementById("java_off").innerHTML = 'You are being redirected to a safer search!';
    }
    //yahoo   
    // Matches the forward slashes in the beginning, anything, then ".yahoo."" then anything followed by a non greedy slash. Hopefully the first forward slash.   
    var y_a = /^.*\/\/(.+\.yahoo\..+?)\//.exec(s_u);    
    if (y_a) {
        s_u = s_u.replace(/&vm=p/ig,"");
        s_u = s_u + "&vm=r";
        window.location.replace(s_u);
        document.getElementById("java_off").innerHTML = 'You are being redirected to a safer search!';
    }   
    document.getElementById("java_off").innerHTML = ' ';
  </script>
</html>

Import the edited URL Access Management safe search block page onto the firewall.
1. Select ConfigurationNGFW and Prisma Access Security ServicesURL Access ManagementResponse Pages.
2. Click URL Access Management Safe Search Block Page. A dialog appears with a Choose File option.
3. Select the safe search block page file you edited earlier and click Save.
Create a custom URL category for the supported search engines.
In the next step, you’ll configure the firewall to decrypt traffic to this custom category.
1. Select ConfigurationNGFW and Prisma Access Security ServicesURL Access Management.
2. Under Access Control, for Custom URL Categories, Add Category.
3. Enter a Name for the category, such as SearchEngineDecryption.
4. For Type of custom URL category, select URL List.
5. Under Items, Add the following entries to the URL list:
  www.bing.*
  search.yahoo.*
  yandex.com.*
6. Save the custom category.
7. Configure Site Access for the new custom URL category.
  Under URL Access Management Profiles, select the profile you configured earlier.
  Under Access Control, select the new custom URL category. It appears in the Custom URL Categories section above External Dynamic URL Lists and Pre-Defined Categories.
  Set Site Access to allow.
  Save your changes.
Configure SSL Forward Proxy decryption.
Because most search engines encrypt their search results, you must enable SSL Forward Proxy decryption so the firewall can inspect the search traffic and detect the safe search settings.
Under the Services and URLs section of the Decryption policy rule, click Add URL Categories. Then, select the custom URL category you created earlier. New custom categories sit at the top of the list.
Save the Decryption policy rule.
Select Push Config to activate your changes.
Verify the Safe Search Enforcement configuration.
From a computer behind a firewall, open a browser and perform a search using Bing, Yahoo, or Yandex. Then, use one of the following methods to verify your configuration:
- Examine the query string of the URL for safe search parameters. Safe Search Settings for Search Providers lists the safe search parameter appended to each search query URL.
- Go to the safe search settings for a supported search engine and verify that the selected SafeSearch preference is the strictest level (Strict in most cases).

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