Description
Scope
FortiGate - Safe Search, Google, Yahoo, Bing.
Solution
Safe Search is a feature of popular search sites that prevents explicit web sites and images from appearing in search results.
Although Safe Search is a useful tool, especially in educational environments, the resourceful user may be able to simply turn it off. Enabling Safe Search for the supported search sites enforces its use by rewriting the search URL to include the code to indicate the use of the Safe Search feature.
For example, on a Google search it would mean adding the string “&safe=active” to the URL in the search.
The search sites supported are:
- Google.
- Yahoo.
- Bing.
- Yandex.
Enabling Safe Search in the GUI
Navigate to the FortiGate GUI -> Security Profiles -> Web Filter.
Select the intended Web Filter Profile.
Select Search Engines.
Enable Enforce 'Safe Search' on Google, Yahoo!, Bing, Yandex.
Select Apply.
config webfilter profile
This enforces the use of Safe Search in traffic controlled by the firewall policies using the web filter that was configured.
Note: The 'Safe Search' feature is only available when the Web Filter profile and the firewall policy are set to proxy-based. See the administration guide for more information. SSL/SSH deep inspection is mandatory for safe search enforcement to work when using a Web Filter. Enable a deep inspection profile in the corresponding firewall policy.
