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The Firewall Grows Up
Most traffic passing through a Firewall is not threat-based, but is instead applications and data.
Traditional firewalls focus on blocking simple threats and intrusions.
Business grade Firewalls have added Unified Threat Management (UTM) services such as anti-virus, anti-spyware, intrusion prevention, content filtering and even some anti-spam services to enhance to threat protection.
This gave rise to the Application Firewall which can manage and control data and applications that pass through the Firewall.
The Application Firewall
Threats (compromised, wasteful data) are blocked while Good (protected, productive data) passes through the Firewall.
What does it do?
An Application Firewall provides bandwidth management and control, application level access controls, data leakage control functionality, restrictions on the transfer of specific files and documents, and much more.
How does it work?
An Application Firewall allows custom access controls based upon user, application, schedule or IP subnet level. This allows an administrator the ability to create polices that address the full range of applications that are available for access and for the first time truly manage them.
Control Misuse of Company Time
The Stats
20 HOURS of video are uploaded to Youtube every minute, 15 billion of those videos are streamed every month... and the average internet user watches 3 hours of streaming video*.
source: http://www.onlineschools.org
3 out of 4 office workers admit to spending more than 30 minutes a day surfing the web on company time (not on break)*
10 Cool Things Your Firewall Should Do
1. Manage Streaming Video
Limit the bandwidth given to streaming video sites.
2. Bandwidth Management
Create a Policy to not limit streaming video for a specific group.
3. Web-mail & Data Loss
Create a policy to block 'Company Confidential' e-mail and notify the sender.
4. Application Use Enforcement
Ensure all company systems are using a specific application.
5. Deny FTP Upload
Create a Policy to allow FTP uploads, but only for certain people.
6. Control P2P Apps
P2P applications can be blocked or just limited through bandwidth and time-based restrictions.
7. Manage Streaming Music
Once “detected” you can block or just bandwidth manage the streaming audio.
8. Prioritise Application Bandwidth
Ensure mission-critical applications have priority to get the network bandwidth.
9. Block Confidential Documents
Create a Policy to block e-mail attachments which contain the 'Company Confidential' watermark.
10. Block Forbidden Files & Notify
Create a policy to block forbidden file extensions which can be specified in a list.
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