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By Craig Garnham in CCNP Security — 29 Dec 2025

WSA - Identities and Policies

WSA Identities

Classified by

Source subnet
Protocol
Proxy Ports
User Agent
URL category

Web Security Manager > Identification Profiles

Identification Profiles

Add Identification Profile

Any changes to the WSA are not applied until they have been committed.

Commit Changes Button

Commit Changes

WSA Access Policy

Web Security Manager > Access Polices

WSA Access Polices

Add Policy

Protocols and User Agents

Protocols and User Agents

URL Filtering

URL Filtering

Youtube Category Filtering

Content Filtering

Applications

Applications Visibility and Control

Objects

Objects

Anti-Malware and Reputation

Anti-Malware and Reputation

To test policies use: Systems Administration > Policy Trace

WSA User Authentication

pop-up login box
Explicit proxy mode - Authenticate (407)
Transparent proxy mode - redirect (307)
NTLM: uses single sign-on

Network > Authentication

Authentication

Edit the identification profile to include authentication

Identification profile with authentication

Identification profiles with authentication