Can Your Firewall Control Unproductive Components of Applications?

Social networking applications such as Facebook, Twitter and YouTube have become new channels of communications for individuals and for companies. While it might be counterproductive to block all social networking applications, you may want to control how they can be used in the workplace.

For example, you may want to let marketing personnel update the company’s Facebook page, but not allow them to play Facebook games like Farmville or Mafia Wars. With application intelligence and control, you can create a policy to allow access to Facebook, but block Farmville.

It’s easy with a SonicWALL firewall. Create a security policy to allow Facebook, but block Facebook games

1. Select “All” users
2. Select Facebook games applications as a category
3. Create a single rule to “Block” all users from accessing games within Facebook