7.5: Subscribe to URLCategorization Service ========================================================= Subscribe to URL-categorization services to ensure that they are up-to-date with the most recent website category definitions available. Uncategorized sites shall be blocked by default. .. list-table:: :header-rows: 1 * - Asset Type - Security Function - Implementation Groups * - Network - Protect - 2, 3 Dependencies ------------ * None Inputs ------ #. The organization's URL categorization service subscription. Assumptions ^^^^^^^^^^^ * Subscription to a URL categorization service provides an organization the ability to intercept a user's intended URL, determine if it has been categorized, and allow/prevent access to that URL based on the (lack of) categorization. Potentially a browser plugin? Potentially some filtering method on a network device or the organization's network perimeter? Operations ---------- #. A user attempts to access an uncategorized URL Measures -------- * M1 = 1 if the organization subscribes to URL categorization services; 0 otherwise * M2 = 1 if access to the uncategorized URL is blocked; 1 otherwise. Metrics ------- Enforcement ^^^^^^^^^^^ .. list-table:: * - **Metric** - | Calculate whether URL categorization is successfully blocking uncategorized URL access. * - **Calculation** - :code:`M1 AND M2` .. history .. authors .. license