6. IDENTITY AWARE WEB FILTERING Active Directory Website A “User” makes a request for a website through a board-owned or guest device using their browser The web filtering service on our Fortinet device receives the request and queries AD to see what ‘group’ the user belongs to. Fortinet system queries classification system to determine what category the requested page belongs to Fortinet system then determines if the user is entitled to receive the requested page based upon their filtering profile If the user’s filtering profile allows the page, the Fortinet system requests the page from the web server and returns it.