Re: Access to Porn sites?

["Bradley, Stephen" <bradlesw () MIAMIOH EDU>]

We do not block adult sites.  We have gone as far as to whitelist certain
sites when our Palo Alto systems were blocking them and users complained on
Reddit.


steve



On Wed, Aug 14, 2019 at 7:08 PM Babak Oskouian <boskouia () mills edu> wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> We at Mills College have been kicking around the idea of blocking access
> to porn sites on our network. Needless to say, we have gotten some push
> back. Our plan (if it is green-lighted) is to use the built-in "adult"
> filters that our Palo Alto firewall provides.
> I am curious as to how many of you block porn sites, and if you do and
> especially if you use a Palo Alto device, have you had to do a lot of
> fine-tuning of your filters to eliminate false-positives?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Babak
>
>
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>
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