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Question

If possible could you please give me a quick solution Rahul regarding
Application Gateway (WAF Policies). i have a scenario like my client given me task about to keep close
required URLs (Eg: facebook,net, youtube.com etc) for external use and only guarantee access for
required suppliers, users with access to VDI's, users with access to local office network & like
Via VPN (Global Protect).

Answer 1

Hello @Peela Vinod ,

If your requirement is to allow/block access to websites from Azure, then Azure Firewall could be of interest to you. Azure Firewall has a feature called Web categories which lets administrators allow or deny user access to web site categories such as gambling websites, social media websites, and others. Web categories are included in Azure Firewall Standard, but it's more fine-tuned in Azure Firewall Premium. As opposed to the Web categories capability in the Standard SKU that matches the category based on an FQDN, the Premium SKU matches the category according to the entire URL for both HTTP and HTTPS traffic.

Please refer below articles for more information:
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/firewall/features#web-categories
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/firewall/web-categories

Kindly let us know if the above helps or you need further assistance on this issue.

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