Content Filtering
What is Content Filtering?
Technology that screens and restricts access to web content, email, or data transfers based on predefined policies to prevent exposure to malicious or inappropriate material.
Terms that appear alongside content filtering
Each of these is named in at least one of the same controls as content filtering. The number is how many controls name both.
- malware 4 shared controls
- management system 2 shared controls
- authentication 2 shared controls
- incident reporting 2 shared controls
- model card 2 shared controls
- nist 2 shared controls
- policy 2 shared controls
- ai safety 2 shared controls
Frameworks that govern content filtering
What the standards actually require on content filtering
Requirements naming content filtering across 6 standards, quoted from the control text.
Files imported or exported via gateways or CDSs undergo content filtering checks.
ISM-0659 · Content filtering checks on transferred files →Agencies should unpack archive and container files and run the extracted files through content filter tests.
new-zealand-information-security-manual-nzism::20.3.11.C.01 · 20.3.11.C.01 Extract archive contents for content filtering →Filter emails and their content. Only allow approved attachment types. Inspect content for malware. Analyse links.
ASD37-06 · Email content filtering (Excellent) →Section 4 of KOSA establishes mandatory default safeguards for known or reasonably inferred minor users. (1) Section 4(a) Mandatory Default Safeguards: All covered platforms must establish the following safeguards as DEFAULT for known minors and provide abilit...
KOSA-Default-Safeguards-Minors-Section4-Strong-Privacy-Time-Limits-Content-Filters-Restricted-Contact-Geographic-Location · KOSA Default Safeguards for Minors + Section 4 + Strong Privacy Settings + Time Management + Content Filtering + Restricted Contact + Geographic Location Default Off + Personalized Recommendations Opt-Out + Direct Messaging Restrictions + Minor Account Designation →When transferring information between different security domains, implement content filtering mechanisms using multiple processes.
NIST800-AC-4(30) · AC-4(30) Information Flow Enforcement | Filter Mechanisms Using Multiple Processes →Take steps to limit, prevent, detect and remove malware in the CDR data environment, including anti-malware/antivirus, web and email content filtering, and application whitelisting.
AUCDR-IS-5 · Limit, prevent, detect and remove malware →Questions people ask about content filtering
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