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February 17, 2025

Technical Tip: Safe Search is not enforced and explicit images still appear on Google Search

  • February 17, 2025
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Description

This article describes an issue when FortiGate is configured to enforce Safe Search using a Web Filter profile but explicit images are still showing on the Google search engine. 

 

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In this scenario, SSL Security Events show that traffic to www.google.com was exempted. This means FortiGate is not inspecting HTTPS traffic. There are no related logs under Web Filter Security Events since traffic was exempted. 

 

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Scope FortiGate
Solution

This is because '*.google.com' was specified under the SSL Inspection exempt list which caused traffic to google.com to be bypassed from deep packet inspection. 

 

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To resolve the issue, remove 'wildcard.google.com' from the SSL Inspection exempt list. After that, Safe Search is enforced and explicit images don't appear on Google Search. 

 

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