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However, no security solution is infallible. Attackers and disgruntled employees frequently look for ways to slip past these filters. As a defender, your job isn’t just to enable the filter—it’s to understand how it can be bypassed and close those gaps. fortiguard web filtering bypass
FortiGuard can see the SNI (Server Name Indication) of an HTTPS request, but without full decryption, it cannot scan the URL path or page content. A user can visit https://blocked-category[.]com but if that site uses a valid certificate and you haven’t decrypted the traffic, FortiGate may allow the connection after only checking the domain against a basic blocklist. Published by: Network Security Team Reading time: 5