Netgear STM300 STM 150-300-600 Reference Manual (PDF) - Page 124

ProSecure Web/Email Security Threat Management (STM) Appliance Specifying Trusted Hosts You can specify trusted hosts for which the STM bypasses HTTPS traffic scanning and security certificate authentication. The security certificate is sent directly to the client for authentication, which means that the user does not receive a security alert for trusted hosts. For more information about security alerts, see Managing Digital Certificates on page 76. Note that certain sites contain elements from different HTTPS hosts. As an example, assume that the https://example.com site contains HTTPS elements from the following three hosts: • trustedhostserver1.example.com • trustedhostserver2.example.com • imageserver.example.com To completely bypass the scanning of the https://example.com site, you need to add all three hosts to the trusted hosts list because different files from these three hosts are also downloaded when a user attempts to access the https://example.com site. To specify trusted hosts: 1. Select Web Security > HTTP/HTTPS from the menu. The HTTP/HTTPS submenu tabs display, with the Malware Scan screen in view. 2. Click the Trusted Hosts submenu tab. The Trusted Hosts screen displays. (The following figure contains an example.) Figure 68. 124 | Chapter 4. Content Filtering and Optimizing Scans