Netskope Controlled Domains for URL Category Testing

[frosa]

Hello NS community!

Currently Netskope URL categorization product has 126 categories. Some categories are normal and legitimate such as Financial News, Business, Educations, and some categories are security risk related such as, Security Risk - Botnets, Security Risk - Phishing/Fraud. There are also categories that may not be allowed for work environment such as Gambling, Tobacco or Adult contents.

Each customer can create their own policies to allow or block each URL category. In order to test these policies, customer needs to know the URL samples in each category and then performs the test.

Below you can see an example of these "hardcoded" categorizations for the security category and a document with the complete list of URLs is attached. (body is limited to 20k characters)

category_id	category_name	domain
521	Security Risk	ns-catid-521-sn.netskopetools.com
583	Security Risk - Ad Fraud	ns-catid-583-sn.netskopetools.com
588	Security Risk - Attack	ns-catid-588-sn.netskopetools.com
578	Security Risk - Botnets	ns-catid-578-sn.netskopetools.com
579	Security Risk - Command and Control server	ns-catid-579-sn.netskopetools.com
580	Security Risk - Compromised/malicious sites	ns-catid-580-sn.netskopetools.com
589	Security Risk - Cryptocurrency Mining	ns-catid-589-sn.netskopetools.com
584	Security Risk - Hacking	ns-catid-584-sn.netskopetools.com
585	Security Risk - Malware Call-Home	ns-catid-585-sn.netskopetools.com
586	Security Risk - Malware Distribution Point	ns-catid-586-sn.netskopetools.com
581	Security Risk - Phishing/Fraud	ns-catid-581-sn.netskopetools.com
582	Security Risk - Spam sites	ns-catid-582-sn.netskopetools.com
587	Security Risk - Spyware & Questionable Software	ns-catid-587-sn.netskopetools.com
594	Security Risk - DGA	ns-catid-594-sn.netskopetools.com
595	Security Risk - Miscellaneous	ns-catid-595-sn.netskopetools.com

[qyost]

Are there similar policy test/validation URLs for the "normal and legitimate" categories?

(ah.. last line.    "Document with list is attached."     Having it directly available in the post or as a KB article on the support site would be fantastic.   The document served as a test of our block of filesharing sites.)

[frosa]

Yes! they're attached. i couldn't put in the body due to a limitation in the number of characters. 

[peterhayes]

To make usage of the list as quick and effortless as a possible, the bookmarks.html file in the attached ZIP contains the Netskope Controlled Domains list, which can be imported into a web browser (instructions: Firefox / Chrome).

The URLs, once imported, will be located in a Netskope Controlled Domains (Category Testing) bookmarks folder.

Edit - attached bookmarks.html as a text file, too, as there are challenges downloading the ZIP (rename extension from .txt to .html once downloaded)

[qyost]

I'll re-raise, can a KB article for this be drafted up and that bookmark zip maintained as new categories are introduced?  (ie, the upcoming AI category)

[nduda]

Anyone else having issues trying to download the bookmark zip?

[peterhayes]

I can reproduce the issue, too. I've edited my initial reply and attached the bookmarks.html file with the extension renamed, which seems to download successfully!

[qyost]

Do all the categories have "hardcoded" test domains using their category_id?   Or is this limited to the "Security Risk" categories?   
Sorry if it's included in the attachment, but the backing file-store is restricted through my tenant.