Add bypass URL categories and reputations

This task allows you to bypass decryption for specific URL categories and reputations to improve performance and reduce processing overhead for trusted or sensitive content.

This task is optional and discusses how to bypass decryption of categories and reputations, based on ratings provided by Cisco Talos.

The following figure shows the list of categories and reputations we recommend.

Example of using our recommended list of URL categories to not decrypt: finance, online trading, and health and medicine.

Before you begin

Complete the tasks discussed in Create a standard decryption policy with outbound protection.

Follow these steps to add bypass URL categories and reputations:

Procedure

Step 1	In the Bypass URL categories section, do any of the following: To edit an existing category/reputation, click Edit (). To delete an existing category/reputation, click Delete (). To add a new category/reputation, click Add new. To return the list of categories and reputations to the ones Cisco recommends, click Apply recommended settings.
Step 2	To add or edit a category/reputation, from the first list, click the name of a category. For more information about categories, see Intelligence Categories.
Step 3	From the second list, click the name of a reputation. For more information about reputations, see Web reputation levels. The following figure shows an example of using Cisco's defaults and adding the Animals and Pets category with the Trusted reputation.
Step 4	Click Save. This figure shows an example.
Step 5	If you're finished configuring your policy, see Decryption policy actions.