Identifying the Category for a Domain

Cato's system categories help you to easily manage the domains for different types of Internet content, such as Gambling or Hacking. However sometimes you don’t know which category a domain belongs to, and how policies might impact traffic to the domain. You can use Domain Lookup to show the Cato system categories for a specific domain.

For example, an Internet Firewall policy blocks the Gambling category. There are users that need to access a website related to gambling, you can't if that website is included in the Gambling category.

Domain Lookup also helps you assess the security risk of a domain with the following information:

• Popularity - How often the domain is visited according to Cato internal data - low popularity domains are generally suspicious

• Malicious Score - The likelihood that the domain is malicious according to Cato threat intelligence algorithms. The score ranges from 0 (benign) to 1 (malicious)