Legacy Content Category Definitions
Talos-based Content Categories
To align with Cisco Talos' Intelligence Categories, Umbrella is updating and migrating its content categories. The descriptions and definitions listed here for Umbrella's legacy pre Talos-based content categories. For information about Umbrella's Talos-based content categories, see Content Category Definitions.
Table of Contents
- Levels of Categorization
- High, Moderate, and Low Category Levels
- Custom Category Level
- Content Category Definitions
Levels of Categorization
When adding a policy and determining which categories of content to block, there are several levels of categorization to choose from:Β High, Moderate, Low, and Custom. Categories included in the High, Moderate, and Low levels are predetermined and cannot be changed. Custom includes all levelsβHigh, Moderate, and Lowβas well as categories unique to Custom. With Custom, you can select categories and create your own custom list of categories to block.Β Β

High, Moderate, and Low Category Levels
HighβBlocks adult-related status, illegal activity, social networking, video sharing site, and general time-wasters. Includes all Moderate and Low content categories. Note that not all content categories are listed under High. There is a sub-listing of content categories that are only available to Custom.
ModerateβBlocks all adult-related websites and illegal activity.
LowβBlocks pornography and anonymous web surfing.
CustomβFor the creation of a custom grouping. Lists all content categories.
The High, Moderate, and Low levels propagate upward. Low categories are included with Moderate and both Moderate and Low category presets are included in High.Β
High | Moderate | Low |
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Adult Themes | Adware | German Youth Protection |
Adware | Alcohol | Child Abuse Content |
Alcohol | Dating | Pornography |
Chat | Drugs | Proxy / Anonymizer |
Classifieds | Gambling | Sexuality |
Dating | German Youth Protection | Tasteless |
Drugs | Hate / Discrimination | |
File Storage | Child Abuse Content | |
Forums / Message Boards | Lingerie / Bikini | |
Gambling | Nudity | |
Games | Pornography | |
German Youth Protection | Proxy / Anonymizer | |
Hate / Discrimination | Sexuality | |
Instant Messaging | Tasteless | |
Child Abuse Content | Terrorism | |
Lingerie / Bikini | Weapons | |
Nudity | ||
P2P / File sharing | ||
Photo Sharing | ||
Pornography | ||
Proxy / Anonymizer | ||
Sexuality | ||
Social Networking | ||
Tasteless | ||
Terrorism | ||
Video Sharing | ||
Visual Search Engines | ||
Weapons | ||
Webmail |
Custom Category Level
Custom includes all categories included with the High setting as well as the following categories that are unique to Custom. These Custom settings are not propagated upward to any other setting.
Custom | ||
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Academic Fraud | Illegal Downloads | Radio |
Anime / Manga / Webcomic | Infrastructure | Real Estate |
Arts | Internet Telephony | Religious |
Astrology | IT-ADM | Research / Reference |
Auctions | IT-AGCOM | Saas and B2B |
Automotive | Jobs / Employment | Safe for Kids |
Blogs | Lotteries | Science and Technology |
Business Services | Military | Search Engines |
Computer Security | Mobile Phones | Sex Education |
Digital Postcards | Movies | Social Science |
Dining and Drinking | Music | Society and Culture |
DIY Projects | News / Media | Software Updates |
Dynamic and Residential | Nature | Software / Technology |
Ecommerce / Shopping | Non-Profits | Sports |
Educational Institutions | Online Meetings | Television |
Fashion | Online Trading | Tobacco |
File Transfer Services | Organization Email | Travel |
Financial Institutions | Paranormal | URL Shortener |
Freeware and Shareware | Parked Domains | Web Hosting |
Government | Personal Sites | Web Page Translation |
Hacking | Personal VPN | Web Spam |
Health and Fitness | Podcasts | |
Humor | Politics | |
Hunting | Portals | |
Illegal Activities | Professional Networking |
Content Categories Definitions
- Academic FraudβSites that promote educational fraud, including but not limited to plagiarism and cheating.
- Adult ThemesβSites that are adult in nature and are not defined in other rating categories.
Note: Select this category only if you want to be very restrictive on your network. - AdwareβSites that distribute applications that display advertisements without the user's knowledge or choice. It does NOT include sites that serve to advertise.
- AlcoholβSites about alcohol use, commercial and otherwise.
- Anime/Manga/WebcomicβSites that host online comics, cartoons, and graphic novels.
- ArtsβGalleries and exhibitions; artists and art; photography; literature and books; performing arts and theater; musicals; ballet; museums; design; architecture. Cinema and television are classified as Entertainment.
- AstrologyβAstrology; horoscope; fortune-telling; numerology; psychic advice; tarot.
- AuctionsβSites for buying and selling via auction.
- AutomotiveβSites about automobiles, including manufacturers, news, reviews, and hobbyist information.
- BlogsβSites that are personal or group journals, diaries or publications.
- Business ServicesβSites for corporations and businesses of all sizes, especially company websites.
- ChatβSites where you can chat in real-time with groups of people. Includes IRC and video chat sites.
- ClassifiedsβSites for buying and selling (or bartering) goods and services. Includes sites with real estate and housing listings.
- Computer SecurityβOffering security products and services for corporate and home users.
- DatingβSites for meeting other people.
- Digital PostcardsβDating, online personals, matrimonial agencies.
- Dining and DrinkingβEating and drinking establishments; restaurants, bars, taverns, and pubs; restaurant guides and reviews.
- DIY ProjectsβGuidance and information to create, improve, modify, decorate and repair something without the aid of experts or professionals.
- DrugsβSites about illegal or recreational drug use.
- Dynamic and ResidentialβIP addresses of broadband links that usually indicate users attempting to access their home network, for example for a remote session to a home computer.
- Ecommerce/ShoppingβSites that are online stores for products and services.
- Educational InstitutionsβSites for schools, covering all age levels and types.
- FashionβClothing and fashion; hair salons; cosmetics; accessories; jewelry; perfume; pictures and text relating to body modification; tattoos and piercing; modeling agencies. Dermatological products are classified as Health and Nutrition.
- File StorageβSites that offer space for hosting, sharing and backup of digital files.
- File Transfer ServicesβFile transfer services with the primary purpose of providing download services and hosted file sharing.
- Financial InstitutionsβSites for banks, brokerages, trusts, and other financial organizations.
- Forums/Message BoardsβSites with discussions, including bulletin boards, message boards, and forums.
- Freeware and SharewareβProviding downloads of free and shareware software.
- GamblingβSites that offer gambling or information about gambling.
- GamesβSites that offer gameplay and information about games (news, tips, cheat codes).
- German Youth ProtectionβContent deemed harmful to minors. This category helps prevent viewing of youth-endangering content in Germany. Block pages for this category will include German text. This list is not controlled by Umbrella and is created to be controlled by the BPjM (Federal Review Board for Media Harmful to Minors) to be compliant with German Law. For more information, see http://www.bundespruefstelle.de/bpjm/Service/english.html.
Note: We do not guarantee compliance with German law. - GovernmentβSites operated by government agencies, including city, state, regional, county and federal levels. Also includes .mil domains.
- HackingβDiscussing ways to bypass the security of websites, software, and computers.
- Hate/DiscriminationβSites that promote intolerance based on gender, age, race, nationality, religion, sexual orientation or other group identities.
- Health and FitnessβSites that offer information about health care and health services. Includes fitness related sites and information about health and fitness.
- HumorβSites that are intended to be funny or humorous.
- HuntingβProfessional or sports hunting, gun clubs, and other hunting-related sites.
- Illegal ActivitiesβPromoting crime, such as stealing, fraud, illegally accessing telephone networks; computer viruses; terrorism, bombs, and anarchy; websites depicting murder and suicide as well as explaining ways to commit them.
- Illegal DownloadsβProviding the ability to download software or other materials, serial numbers, key generators, and tools for bypassing software protection in violation of copyright agreements. Torrents are classified as Peer File Transfer.
- InfrastructureβContent delivery infrastructure and dynamically generated content; websites that cannot be classified more specifically because they are secured or otherwise difficult to classify.
- Instant MessagingβSites that offer access or software to communicate in real-time with other individuals.
- Internet TelephonyβTelephonic services using the internet.
- Child Abuse Content (CAC)βSites that contain child sexual abuse content. For more information about this category, see the Internet Watch Foundation.
- IT-ADMβSites that offer gambling or information about gambling and tobacco. For more information, see the Italian Nacional Agency.
- IT-AGCOMβSites that are deemed to infringe on intellectual property. For more information, see the Italian National Agency.
- Jobs/EmploymentβSites that offer job listings, resume services, interview coaching, and similar employment-related services.
- Lingerie/BikiniβSites displaying or dedicated to lingerie/bikini that could be considered adult-only.
- LotteriesβSweepstakes, contests, and state-sponsored lotteries.
- MilitaryβMilitary, such as the armed forces, military bases, military organizations, anti-terrorism.
- Mobile PhonesβShort Message Services (SMS); ringtones and mobile phone downloads. Cellular carrier websites are included in the Business and Industry category.
- MoviesβSites that promote movies or offer movie watching online.
- MusicβSites about music, including news, band and fan information.
- NatureβNatural resources; ecology and conservation; forests; wilderness; plants; flowers; forest conservation; forest, wilderness, and forestry practices; forest management (reforestation, forest protection, conservation, harvesting, forest health, thinning, and prescribed burning); agricultural practices (agriculture, gardening, horticulture, landscaping, planting, weed control, irrigation, pruning, and harvesting); pollution issues (air quality, hazardous waste, pollution prevention, recycling, waste management, water quality, and the environmental cleanup industry); animals, pets, livestock, and zoology; biology; botany.
- News/MediaβSites that offer news and information, including newspapers, broadcasters, and other publishers.
- Non-ProfitsβSites for non-profit or charity organizations and services.
- NudityβSites that provide images or representations of nudity.
- Online MeetingsβOnline meetings, desktop sharing, remote access, and other tools that facilitate multi-location collaboration.
- Online TradingβOnline brokerages; websites that enable the user to trade stocks online; information relating to the stock market, stocks, bonds, mutual funds, brokers, stock analysis and commentary, stock screens, stock charts, IPOs, stock splits. Services for spread betting on stocks and shares are classified as Gambling. Other financial services are classified as Finance.
- Organization EmailβWebsites used to access business email (often via Outlook Web Access).
- P2P/File SharingβSites that facilitate the sharing of digital files between individuals, especially through peer-to-peer software, including torrent sites.
- ParanormalβUFOs, ghosts, cryptid, telekinesis, urban legends, and myths.
- Parked DomainsβSites that are placeholders "parked" for future use. Current uses may include single-page advertising sites.
- Personal SitesβWebsites about and from private individuals; personal homepage servers; websites with personal contents; personal blogs with no particular theme.
- Personal VPNβVirtual private network (VPN) sites or tools that are typically for personal use and may or may not be approved for corporate usage.
- Photo SharingβSites for sharing photographs, as individual images, galleries, and albums.
- PodcastsβSites that offer podcasts, digital media files distributed over the Internet, often using syndication feeds, for playback on portable media players and personal computers. Both audio and video podcasts are included.
- PoliticsβSites about politics, politicians, political parties and organizations. Government sites are separate.
- PornographyβAnything relating to pornography, including mild depiction, soft pornography or hard-core pornography.
- PortalsβSites that offer gateways to the internet as a whole, often including bundled services on their own site.
- Professional NetworkingβSocial networking for the purpose of career or professional development. See also Social Networking.
- Proxy/AnonymizerβSites providing proxy bypass information or services. Blocks DoH providers so that the browser fails to resolve the hostname of the DoH server, and reverts to standard system DNS. Also, sites that allow the user to surf the net anonymously, including sites that allow the user to send anonymous emails.
- RadioβSites that offer online radio listening or promote radio stations.
- Real EstateβInformation that would support the search for real estate; office and commercial space; real estate listings, such as rentals, apartments, and homes; house building.
- ReligiousβSites about religion, religious teachings and groups, and spirituality.
- Research/ReferenceβSites such as encyclopedias, dictionaries as well as other research-related resources.
- SaaS and B2BβWeb portals for online business services; online meetings.
- Safe for KidsβDirected at, and specifically for, young children.
- Search EnginesβSites that offer result listings based on keywords.
- Sex EducationβFactual websites dealing with sex; sexual health; contraception; pregnancy.
- SexualityβSites that provide information, images or implications of bondage, sadism, masochism, fetish, beating, body piercing or self-mutilation. This category is not intended for LGBT-related sites that do not fall under the aforementioned criteria.
- Science and TechnologyβScience and technology, such as aerospace, electronics, engineering, mathematics, and other similar subjects; space exploration; meteorology; geography; environment; energy (fossil, nuclear, renewable); communications (telephones, telecommunications).
- Social NetworkingβSites that promote interaction and networking between people.
- Social ScienceβSciences and history related to society; archaeology; anthropology; cultural studies; history; linguistics; geography; philosophy; psychology; women's studies.
- Society and CultureβFamily and relationships; ethnicity; social organizations; genealogy; seniors; child-care.
- Software/TechnologyβSites about computing, hardware, and technology, including news, information, code and vendor information.
- Software UpdatesβWebsites that host updates for software packages.
- SportsβSites about sports of all kinds, from professional to amateur, from news to league information and schedules. Includes martial arts and MMA related sites.
- TastelessβSites that contain information on such subjects as mutilation, torture, horror, or the grotesque. Includes Pro-Anorexia and Pro-Suicide related sites.
- TelevisionβSites that promote television shows or offer television watching online.
- TerrorismβSites that promote terrorism or are linked with terrorist organizations.
- TobaccoβSites about tobacco use and related products, commercial and otherwise.
- TravelβSites with travel information and services, including reservations for airlines, cars, hotels, vacations, and trips.
- URL ShortenerβAn online application or service that converts a regular URL into a condensed format.
- Video SharingβSites for sharing video content.
- Visual Search EnginesβSites for searching for images based on keywords.
- WeaponsβSites about weapons, commercial and otherwise.
- Web Page TranslationβTranslation of web pages between languages.
- Web HostingβWebsite hosting; bandwidth services.
- Web SpamβRedirect targets containing unwanted sweepstakes/survey/advertisements for free merchandise, pharmaceutical spam or rolex distributions.
- WebmailβSites that offer the ability to send or receive an email.
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