Protect your enterprise network, enforce acceptable use policies, and prevent data leakage with real-time URL classification across 100 million domains and 59 content categories.
Over 90% of cyber attacks begin with a malicious URL. Real-time domain classification breaks the kill chain before damage occurs, blocking threats, enforcing policies, and protecting sensitive data across your entire corporate network. Learn more in our guide to enterprise web security.
Automatically enforce acceptable use policies across every endpoint. Block restricted categories in real time and generate auditable compliance reports for HR and legal teams.
Apply role-based web access policies per department. Marketing accesses social platforms, engineering reaches developer tools, and finance operates under tightened security controls.
Meet SOX, PCI-DSS, GLBA, and other regulatory requirements with category-level access logs and audit-ready reporting built into every API response.
Enforce corporate internet policies with precision using granular content category classification
Studies consistently show that unrestricted internet access during work hours costs enterprises billions in lost productivity annually. URL classification enables time-based policies that restrict access to social media, streaming video, gaming, and sports sites during business hours while allowing access during breaks and after hours. This balanced approach respects employee autonomy while protecting productive time.
Every enterprise has an acceptable use policy, but enforcement has historically been reactive and inconsistent. With real-time URL classification, AUP violations are prevented rather than detected after the fact. Block categories that violate company policy such as gambling, adult content, weapons, and illegal activities. Generate compliance reports for HR and legal teams automatically.
Unauthorized file sharing and cloud storage platforms are a leading vector for corporate data leakage. Our classification database identifies personal cloud storage, file transfer services, paste sites, and anonymous communication platforms that employees might use to exfiltrate sensitive data, whether intentionally or accidentally. Block these categories on networks handling proprietary or regulated information.
Enterprises in regulated industries such as finance, insurance, and legal must demonstrate internet usage controls as part of SOX, PCI-DSS, GLBA, and other compliance frameworks. URL classification provides the auditable, category-level access control data that compliance officers need for regulatory reporting and audit preparation.
Different departments within an enterprise have different web access requirements. The marketing team needs access to social media platforms and advertising networks. The engineering team needs access to developer forums, code repositories, and cloud infrastructure consoles. The finance team needs restricted access to prevent accidental exposure to restricted content sites targeting financial credentials. A single blanket policy creates friction and blocks legitimate work.
Our 59 content categories enable role-based policies that align with departmental needs. Integrate with Active Directory, LDAP, or your identity provider to apply the appropriate category restrictions based on the user's organizational role. Marketing gets social media access; engineering gets developer tools; finance gets tightened security categories; executives get customized policies that match their unique access patterns.
The shift to remote and hybrid work has fundamentally changed the corporate security perimeter. Employees access corporate resources from home networks, public Wi-Fi hotspots, co-working spaces, and mobile connections that the IT department does not control. Traditional on-premises firewalls and web proxies cannot protect traffic that never touches the corporate network.
Cloud-based URL classification solves this challenge. By embedding our API into endpoint agents, SASE platforms, or cloud proxy services, enterprises can apply the same category-based filtering policies to remote workers that they enforce on-premises. Every URL request from a corporate device is classified in real time against our 100 million domain database, regardless of the user's physical location or network connection.
This approach is critical for protecting remote workers from targeted restricted content attacks, which have surged dramatically since the rise of distributed work. Attackers know that remote employees may be less cautious outside the office environment and craft campaigns specifically designed to exploit home network vulnerabilities and personal device security gaps.
Corporate security operations centers need URL classification data that integrates into their existing security stack. Our API feeds directly into SIEM platforms, SOAR orchestration tools, secure web gateways, and next-generation firewalls. When a security analyst investigates an alert, they can instantly query our database to classify suspicious domains and understand the content risk context.
The database is updated continuously as our content classification team identifies new malicious infrastructure. Newly registered domains, domain generation algorithm (DGA) outputs, typosquatting variations of popular brands, and fast-flux hosting networks are all classified within hours of detection. This speed is essential because the average restricted content site is active for less than 24 hours before the attacker abandons it for a fresh domain.
Enterprises can also use our bulk classification API to retroactively analyze their DNS and proxy logs. Upload historical domain queries and receive category classifications for every domain your network has contacted. This retrospective analysis often reveals previously undetected compromises, shadow IT usage, and policy violations that went unnoticed in real time.
How enterprises use URL classification to secure their networks and enforce policies
Feed our URL classification data directly into your secure web gateway to make informed allow/block decisions for every HTTP and HTTPS request. Our categories integrate with leading SWG platforms through standard APIs, enriching their native classification with our 100 million domain database. This layered approach catches content risks that single-vendor databases miss and reduces false positives by cross-referencing multiple classification sources.
Apply URL classification at the DNS layer for enterprise-wide protection without requiring agent installation on every endpoint. Configure your corporate DNS resolver to query our API and block resolution of domains in restricted categories. This approach protects all devices on the network including IoT devices, printers, and conference room systems that cannot run traditional endpoint security agents.
When a security incident occurs, responders need rapid domain intelligence. Our API provides instant classification of any domain encountered during an investigation, helping analysts determine whether a contacted domain is associated with unsafe content delivery, command-and-control operations, data leakage, or legitimate business services. Accelerate triage and reduce mean time to resolution for security incidents.
Employees regularly adopt SaaS applications and cloud services without IT approval, creating security blind spots known as shadow IT. By classifying all domains accessed from the corporate network, security teams can identify unauthorized cloud services, personal file storage usage, unsanctioned communication tools, and other shadow IT that falls outside the approved technology stack. Visibility is the first step to governance.
Classify URLs at the gateway level to enforce corporate browsing policies, segment department access, and block restricted content in real time.
import requests # Corporate web gateway - classify employee URL request url = "https://webfilteringdatabase.com/api/moderate.php" payload = { "api_key": "YOUR_API_KEY", "query": "linkedin.com" } response = requests.post(url, json=payload) data = response.json() print(data["primary_category"]) # "Social Networking" print(data["categories"]) # ["Social Networking", "Business"] print(data["risk_level"]) # "low"
// Corporate web gateway - classify employee URL request const response = await fetch( "https://webfilteringdatabase.com/api/moderate.php", { method: "POST", headers: { "Content-Type": "application/json" }, body: JSON.stringify({ api_key: "YOUR_API_KEY", query: "personal-email.com" }) } ); const data = await response.json(); console.log(data.primary_category); // "Web-based Email" console.log(data.categories); // ["Web-based Email"] console.log(data.risk_level); // "medium"
# Corporate web gateway - classify employee URL request curl -X POST https://webfilteringdatabase.com/api/moderate.php \ -H "Content-Type: application/json" \ -d '{ "api_key": "YOUR_API_KEY", "query": "reddit.com" }' # Response: # { # "primary_category": "Social Networking", # "categories": ["Social Networking", "Forums"], # "risk_level": "low" # }
<?php // Corporate web gateway - classify employee URL request $url = "https://webfilteringdatabase.com/api/moderate.php"; $payload = json_encode([ "api_key" => "YOUR_API_KEY", "query" => "gambling-site.xyz" ]); $ch = curl_init($url); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $payload); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, ["Content-Type: application/json"]); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true); $response = json_decode(curl_exec($ch), true); curl_close($ch); echo $response["primary_category"]; // "Gambling" echo $response["categories"]; // ["Gambling"] echo $response["risk_level"]; // "high"
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