LANCOM Security Essentials

As of LCOS 10.92, the option LANCOM Content Filter was renamed to LANCOM Security Essentials. As part of this renaming, the OEM partner for category filtering was changed from IBM Orangefilter to Bitdefender. As a result, both the groupings and names of the categories have changed.

Effects and notes

The internal label Content Filter in LANconfig as well as the names of existing firewall rules remain unchanged.
If you use the standard rules without customizations, the new categories have been mapped to them automatically and appropriately.
If you use custom rule sets, please review and adapt the category assignments accordingly.

Licensing

Licensing is no longer user-based.
Theoretically, an unlimited number of users is now possible.
In practice, throughput is limited by the device performance of the respective hardware. For details, see the product website.

Changes in the status menu

There is a new status menu Status > UTM > Content Filter > Statistics (1.64.3.30) containing the following:
- The seven scalars Allowed-URLs, Overridden-URLs, Blocked-URLs, Whitelisted-URLs, Blacklisted-URLs, Error-Count and Uncategorized-URLs were moved here from Status > UTM > Content Filter (1.64.3).
- There are two status tables Category-Statistics (8) and Last-Snapshot-Category-Statistics (9), replacing the respective old tables from Status > UTM > Content Filter (1.64.3). The categories correspond to the new ones from Bitdefender.
- There is a new table Rating-Decisions (10), which logs all rating decisions using HTTPS and all HTTP rating decisions with empty paths.
- The three tables Top-10-Allowed-Hosts (11), Top-10-Overridden-Hosts (12), and Top-10-Blocked-Hosts (13) were moved here from Status > UTM > Content Filter > Cache (1.64.3.29). They list the Top 10 from the Rating-Decisions (10) table.
- There are also three new snapshot tables:
  - Last-Snapshot-Top-10-Allowed-Hosts (14),
  - Last-Snapshot-Top-10-Overridden-Hosts (15), and
  - Last-Snapshot-Top-10-Blocked-Hosts (16).
  They store the latest snapshot of the Top 10 Allowed, Overridden, and Blocked Hosts tables. No snapshot exists for Rating-Decisions (10).
- The scalar Snapshot-Date was also moved here.
- The action Delete-Values (18) replaces Statistics-Flush and Category-Statistics-Flush from Status > UTM > Content Filter (1.64.3) and deletes all statistics from this new submenu, including snapshots. This action is also linked to Status > Delete-Values (1.100), meaning that it also clears statistics from this menu.
In the status menu Status > UTM > Content Filter > Cache (1.64.3.29), the new action Delete-Values (9) replaces the previous Cache-Flush (7). It now deletes only the cache, not the Top-10 tables, which are instead handled under Status > UTM > Content Filter > Statistics > Delete-Values (1.64.3.30.18). The action Status > Delete-Values (1.100) now also deletes the content filter cache.