How To Block P2P Applications in Cyberoam

Applicable to Version: 10.00 onwards With millions of people finding themselves online, entertainment followed quickly with bandwidthhungry gaming, chat, audio and video downloads. Productivity losses mounted in two ways. While some employees indulged in non-business application usage with gaming, audio-video downloads through peer-to-peer networks like Kazaa and more, business-critical applications suffered for want of sufficient bandwidth. Cyberoams Application Filter Policy controls users application access. It specifies which user has access to which applications and allows defining powerful security policies based on almost limitless policy parameters like: Individual Users Group of Users Time of day Application based bandwidth

This document explains how to create an Application Filter Policy for blocking P2P applications for a particular user. Requirement Block P2P applications for user John. Prerequisite Web and Application Filter module subscribed Solution The entire configuration is to be done from Web Admin Console. Access Web Admin Console with user having Administrator profile. Follow the below given steps to block P2P applications for group of users: Step 1: Create Application Filter Policy Go to Application Filter Policy Policy and click on Add button to add an application filter policy with the following parameters.

How To Block P2P Applications in Cyberoam

Parameters Name Template

Value BlockP2P Allow All Here all the applications would be allowed, but some defined categories will be blocked

Click OK and the Application Filter Policy BlockP2P will be created successfully.

How To Block P2P Applications in Cyberoam

Note: Appliance is shipped with the following predefined policies for applications: Allow All and Deny All. These two predefined policies are immediately available for use until configured otherwise. You can also define custom policies to define different levels of access for different users to meet your organizations requirements.

Step 2: Add Application Filter Policy Rules Go to Application Filter Policy Policy and click on Add button to add application filter policy rules. Click the Edit icon are to be added. in the Manage column against the Application Filter Policy to which rules

Parameters Select Categories

Value P2P Select Application Category from the list of available categories. Select All Select the Applications which you want to block under the Category selected.

Select Application

Action Schedule

Deny All the Time Schedule defines a time schedule for applying the rule.

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Click OK and the Application Filter Policy Rule will be created successfully.

Step 3: Apply Application Filter Policy to User Go to Identity Users User Select user to apply Application Filter policy created in Step 1. Under Policies Section, select BlockP2P for Application Filter Click OK button to update

How To Block P2P Applications in Cyberoam

Click OK and the policy will be applied to user and the user will be updated successfully. Above configuration will Block access to all P2P Applications for user John. Document Version 1.0 11/07/2011