DNS Content Category Changes
To align with Cisco Talos' Intelligence Categories, Umbrella is updating and migrating its content categories. Updates include the addition of new content categories, changes to current content categories, and the reclassification of some destinations. Listed here are the original content categories (now legacy Umbrella content categories) alongside the equivalent new Talos-based content categories.
Note: All new instances of Umbrella include Umbrella's new Talos-based content categories.
###Legacy Content Category Changes
| Legacy Category | Talos Category |
|---|---|
| Academic Fraud | Cheating and Plagiarism |
| Adult Themes Adult | Adult |
| Anime/Manga/Webcomic | Entertainment |
| Automative | Transportation |
| Blogs | Online Communities |
| Business Services | Business and Industry |
| Chat | Chat and Instant Messaging |
| Classifieds | Auctions |
| Drugs | Illegal Drugs |
| Ecommerce/Shopping | Shopping |
| Educational Institutions | Education |
| File Storage | Online Storage and Backup |
| Financial Institutions | Finance |
| Forums/Message Boards | Online Communities |
| German Youth Protection | Regional Restricted Sites (Germany) |
| Government | Government and Law |
| Hate/Discrimination | Hate speech |
| Health and Fitness | Health and Medicine |
| Instant Messaging | Chat and Instant Messaging |
| IT-ADM IT-AGCOM | Regional Restricted Sites (Italy) |
| Jobs/Employment | Job Search |
| Lingerie/Bikini | Lingerie and Swimsuits |
| Movies | Streaming Video |
| Music | Streaming Audio |
| News/Media | News |
| Non-profits | Non-governmental Organizations |
| Nudity | Non-sexual Nudity |
| P2P/File Sharing | Peer File Transfer |
| Photo Sharing | Photo Search and Images |
| Podcasts | Streaming Audio |
| Portals | Search Engines and Portals |
| Proxy/Anonymizer | Filter Avoidance |
| Radio | Streaming Audio |
| Religious | Religion |
| Research/Reference | Reference |
| Search Engines | Search Engines and Portals |
| Sexuality | Adult |
| Software/Technology | Computers and Internet |
| Sports | Sports and Recreation |
| Tasteless | Extreme |
| Television | Streaming Video |
| Terrorism | Terrorism and Violent Extremism |
| Video Sharing | Streaming Video |
| Visual Search Engines | Photo Search and Images |
| Webmail | Web-based Email |
Note: Legacy categories Adware and Web Spam are deprecated and will not be migrated to new categories. Any destinations that currently fall under these categories are covered by equivalent security categories Malware and Phishing Attacks. For more information, see DNS Security Categories. Additionally, Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) will be migrated automatically to Child Abuse Content (CAC) and is not expected to be visible in the migration tool. The IWF destination feed will be fully ingested into CAC, and will remain a part of the CAC category's data feed.
###New Content Categories
In addition to legacy content categories migrating to Talos content categories, Umbrella added new content categories from Talos. For full content category definitions, see DNS Content Categories.
- Advertisements
- Animals and Pets
- Cannabis
- Cloud and Data Centers
- Conventions, Conferences and Trade Shows
- Cryptocurrency
- DNS over HTTPS (DoH) and DNS over TLS (Transport Layer Security)
- Internet of Things
- Museums
- Not Actionable
- Online Document Sharing and Collaboration
- Private IP Addresses as Host
- Recipes and Food
- Regional Restricted Sites (Great Britain)
- Regional Restricted Sites (Poland)
- Web Cache and Archives
DNS Content Categories < DNS Content Category Changes > Add a Web Content Category Setting
Updated over 2 years ago