Common elements for access forward proxy

URL filtering capability for outbound web traffic.

Monitoring and gating outbound traffic to maximize productivity and meet business needs.

User identification or authentication (or both) tied to logging, and access control compliance and accountability.

Visibility into SSL traffic.

Reports on blocked requests and all requests. (Reports depend on event logging settings.)

Ability to interactively request additional authentication for sensitive resources and provide time-limited access to them in subsessions.

Ability to interactively request confirmation before allowing or blocking access to resources that might not, in all instances, provide benefit to the business. Confirmation and access take place in a subsession with its own lifetime and timeout values.