Application Control Categories

Descriptions of the categories are designed to assist the reader with category comprehension only; They are not meant to depict any form of symbolic representation of the individuals who create the applications.

Category Description Version 5.6+ Version 5.4 Version 5.2
Botnet Malicious applications that are used for distributing malware, DDoS attacks and other malicious purposes switch-on-logo switch-on-logo
Business Business related applications such as office suites switch-on-logo switch-on-logo switch-on-logo
Cloud.IT Cloud based applications switch-on-logo switch-on-logo switch-on-logo
Collaboration Applications used for desktop sharing, remote meetings and other connected collaboration switch-on-logo switch-on-logo switch-on-logo
Email Applications for sending/receiving and processing email switch-on-logo switch-on-logo switch-on-logo
File.Sharing Applications used for sharing files switch-on-logo
Game Game applications switch-on-logo switch-on-logo switch-on-logo
General.Interest General interest tools, applications switch-on-logo switch-on-logo switch-on-logo
IM Instant Messaging applications switch-on-logo
Industrial Industrial applications switch-on-logo switch-on-logo switch-on-logo
Mobile Mobile application communications switch-on-logo switch-on-logo switch-on-logo
Network.Service Applications used for network related services and communications switch-on-logo switch-on-logo switch-on-logo
P2P Peer-to-Peer applications used for sharing files switch-on-logo switch-on-logo switch-on-logo
Proxy Proxy and VPN applications switch-on-logo switch-on-logo switch-on-logo
Remote.Access Remote access applications for file transfer or remote control switch-on-logo switch-on-logo switch-on-logo
Social.Media Online social media applications switch-on-logo switch-on-logo switch-on-logo
Special Special applications switch-on-logo
Storage.Backup Online storage applications for storage of files and photos switch-on-logo switch-on-logo switch-on-logo
Update Communications to update servers for various applications switch-on-logo switch-on-logo switch-on-logo
Video/Audio Video sharing, streaming and broadcasting applications switch-on-logo switch-on-logo switch-on-logo
VoIP Voice over IP applications switch-on-logo switch-on-logo switch-on-logo
Web.Others Web browser and other web crawling tools switch-on-logo
Web.Client HTTP based client applications switch-on-logo switch-on-logo
Unknown All traffic that was not detected by any of the other application categories switch-on-logo switch-on-logo switch-on-logo