Zaperon’s Network Security policies empower organizations to govern, monitor, and secure network traffic across all users and devices. Functioning as a robust Secure Web Gateway (SWG), these policies allow administrators to enforce granular web access controls based on URL categories, custom domains, and user groups, ensuring comprehensive visibility and proactive threat protection.
To maintain seamless operations for specialized applications, Zaperon also provides Global Web Exclusions. This feature allows trusted domains—such as certificate-pinned or vendor-restricted services—to safely bypass SWG inspection. Together, Network Security policies and Global Web Exclusions deliver strict access control without disrupting critical business workflows.
This section explains how to configure and manage your organization's network security rules.
Create a Policy - Create Secure Web Gateway policies to allow or block access to websites using URL categories or custom URLs. Use this to enforce acceptable-use standards and prevent access to malicious or high-risk sites.
Edit a Policy - Modify existing SWG policies to update access rules, category controls, or user scope as security requirements change.
Enable / Disable Policy - Temporarily enable or disable Secure Web policies without deleting them—ideal for testing, troubleshooting, or phased rollouts.
Delete Policy - Permanently remove Secure Web Gateway policies that are no longer required to keep policy management clean and efficient.
Apply Policy to Group - Apply Secure Web policies to specific user groups to enforce role-based or department-specific web access controls.
Add Global Web Exclusions - Configure Global Web Exclusions to bypass Secure Web inspection for trusted domains or certificate-pinned applications that may not function correctly with SSL/TLS inspection.
Delete Global Web Exclusions - Remove previously configured Global Web Exclusions to re-enable inspection, visibility, and policy enforcement for excluded domains.
How do Global Web Exclusions work?
In Zaperon, Network Security policies serve as the overarching framework for managing your network traffic, while the Secure Web Gateway (SWG) is the underlying technology used to inspect, filter, and secure that web traffic.
Can I apply different network policies to different departments?
Global Web Exclusions allow you to whitelist specific, trusted domains so their traffic is not intercepted or inspected by the SWG. This is necessary for certain business applications that use certificate pinning and will break if their traffic is monitored.
What is the difference between Network Security policies and SWG?
Yes. You can create custom Network Security policies and apply them to specific User Groups, allowing for strict controls for some departments and flexible browsing for others.