In this chapter, we have learned about Untangle Web Filter, the HTTPS Inspector, Application Control, Bandwidth Control, and Web Cache applications.

We saw how Web Filter and Application Control can help to increase the employee's productivity by blocking certain sites and applications. Also, we learned how to utilize the HTTPS Inspector to decrypt the HTTPS traffic and pass it as HTTP to other applications for processing.

In the next chapter, we will learn about two new Untangle applications that are used to enhance and optimize your network traffic. The first application will be Bandwidth Control that can be used to prevent certain users from draining the whole bandwidth by setting quotas. You can also limit the bandwidth assigned to certain protocols (such as BitTorrent). The second application is the Web Cache that provides a local cache of the recently visited websites. This allows the users to download the data from the local cache instead of re-downloading the data when the...