In working with the Netskope CASB, we’ve had analysts come up with the question “would this URL be blocked?”  I know we can go into Skope IT and do a URL Lookup to see what categories a URL is linked to and what policies “cover” it.  However, this doesn’t see to answer the fundamental question, “would it be blocked?”  

There is the simple solution of, “just try it”, which will provide the answer, but this has some obvious downsides.  And it seems that the Netskope system must know if a URL is blocked or not, it will block browsing to a URL afterall.  

Is there something I am missing in the interface which does this?  Or, is there a safe way to validate a URL from an analyst’s system, which doesn’t involve “ya, just try visiting a potentially malicious URL”?