Install Content Gateway

Content Gateway is a Linux-based, high-performance web proxy and cache that provides real-time content analysis and website classification to protect clients from malicious content while enabling access to safe content.

Content Gateway offers:

  • Categorization of dynamic websites
  • Categorization of new and unclassified websites
  • Optionally, HTTPS and FTP content analysis, in addition to HTTP
  • Enterprise Web proxy caching capabilities
  • Prevention of data loss over web channels

Content Gateway is a required component of Forcepoint Security Solutions. In a software-based deployment, Content Gateway must be installed on a Linux machine. The machine should be dedicated to running Content Gateway.

Important: In an appliance-based deployment, when Forcepoint Security Solutions is configured, Content Gateway is already installed. Forcepoint Security Solutions and Forcepoint Email Security cannot be installed on the same appliance.

For full instructions on preparing a Linux machine and installing Content Gateway, see Installation Guide: Forcepoint Web Security.