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Network Identifiers

Overview​

SafeSquid's Access Restriction section provides you an option to divide your users into specific user groups and use that user groups to define different set of Access Rules to that specific user groups. You want to define an access restriction to your users based on their role, then you can add the users into separate User Groups in Access Restriction section and use that User Groups to set the access rules.

For example, in my organization I have to divide users into different groups such as HR TEAM, SALES TEAM, MANAGERS, GENERAL USERS...etc.

The access policies for that groups defined as follows:

  • Full internet access to the MANAGERS
  • Only Job Portals to the HR TEAM
  • Only Marketing Related websites to SALES TEAM
  • Deny total internet to the GENERAL USERS, they are allowed to access internal websites only.
  • Deny the access to consumer google accounts to ALL GROUPS

So, I added those users or groups into separate User Groups in Access Restriction section of SafeSquid, and I used that User Groups to define the access policies mentioned same as above. You can also define the access policies based on user's network IP addresses.

Prerequisites​

You must have integrated LDAP setup, if you want to create user groups based on LDAP users.

Creating User Groups​

Below are the different ways to define your User Groups

Define User Groups that correspond to role-based groups in LDAP. (User-group based Policies)

If you have an LDAP server integrated with SafeSquid and you want to define the access policies based on the LDAP users or Groups, then follow this method

Define User Groups that correspond to specific users

If you don't have LDAP server to integrate with SafeSquid, but you want to assign usernames and passwords to your users, then follow this method

Define User Groups that include or exclude users based on their Network IP (IP based Policies)

If you want to define the access rules based on users network IP addresses then follow this method.

Define User Groups that include or exclude users based on their Network IP

Overview​

Creating User Groups based on their network IP

Steps​

Access The SafeSquid User Interface​

Go to Configure Page​

Select Configure Page Section

Go to Application Setup​

Go to Access Restrictions​

Select Access Restrictions Section

Select Allow list Section

Add new policy in Allow section by clone it or by add new one

edit clone entry in Allow section and add new IP Address to include or exclude user based on their Network IP

Add IP address and User group to include or exclude user based on their Network IP

Save policy to include or exclude user based on their Network IP

Save policy Configuration to include or exclude user based on their Network IP