Can your Firewall Block Peer-to-Peer Applications?

Unproductive peer-to-peer (P2P) applications such as BitTorrent are often used to download unlicensed versions of copyrighted media, and can quickly consume bandwidth or transmit malware. However, the creation of new P2P applications, or simple changes (e.g., version numbers) to the existing P2P applications happen all the time so it is difficult to manually block any single P2P application.

SonicWALL continuously updates the application intelligence and control database to add new P2P apps as soon as they are available. Now you can simply create one policy to block all P2P apps going forward.

Create a policy to block the use of P2P applications

1. The Deep Packet Inspection (DPI) engine uses pre-defined P2P application signatures from the application signature list
2. Choose the P2P applications from the predefined signature list
3. Apply the policy to all users
4. Block P2P applications through bandwidth and time-based restrictions