Cobham Hall PaloAlto Pupil Block Categories

Created by Adam Banks, Modified on Wed, 10 Sep at 5:10 PM by Adam Banks

Palo Alto URL Checker

Websites are classified based on site content, features, and safety. Visit Test A Site to see how the website is currently categorised, if you feel the category is incorrect you can also use Test A Site to submit a website category change request which, if approved by our third-party web content filtering company, will update the school internet filtering rules within 24 hours.

Brightcloud URL Checker

To confirm the category you can use a secondary URL check site - Brightcloud has a good reputation.

https://www.brightcloud.com/tools/url-ip-lookup.php

Wikipedia can also provide a useful source of information abut a site,

PaloAlto URL Categories

Descriptions of all PaloAlto URL categories, and the site risk classification is documented here:

https://docs.paloaltonetworks.com/advanced-url-filtering/administration/url-filtering-basics/url-categories

Block Categories

The following categories are blocked for pupils "MHS-Student-URL-Filter":

abortion
adult
command-and-control
cryptocurrency
dating
extremism
gambling
grayware
hacking
malware
proxy-avoidance-and-anonymizers
questionable
ransomware
scanning-activity