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Re: Blocking p2p traffic
From: John Ladwig <John.Ladwig () SO MNSCU EDU>
Date: Tue, 7 May 2013 19:46:50 +0000
I recall that might have been part of our decision to move to Procera gear. From: The EDUCAUSE Security Constituent Group Listserv [mailto:SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU] On Behalf Of Santabarbara, Angelo Sent: Tuesday, May 07, 2013 2:40 PM To: SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU Subject: Re: [SECURITY] Blocking p2p traffic FYI, we made the mistake of upgrading our bandwidth license on the Packeteer 10,000 to 1 Gb only to find that it can't really handle that bandwidth even though BlueCoat will sell you that license. Angelo D. Santabarbara Director of Networks & Systems Siena College 518-782-6996 ASantabarbara () siena edu<mailto:ASantabarbara () siena edu> ***Siena ITS staff will NEVER ask for your password or other confidential information via email.*** CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This e-mail, including any attachments, is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure, or distribution is prohibited. If you received this e-mail and are not the intended recipient, please inform the sender by e-mail reply and destroy all copies of the original message. On Tue, May 7, 2013 at 2:23 PM, David Curry <david.curry () newschool edu<mailto:david.curry () newschool edu>> wrote: I did promise a summary once the responses died down, so here it is. The following solutions were mentioned: * Add more bandwidth instead of trying to block * Procera * NetEqualizer * Exinda * TippingPoint IPS * SourceFire IPS * Fortinet * Cisco SCE Exinda was mentioned by two people; all the others were mentioned by one person each. Everybody seems to be generally happy with their solutions; Procera and NetEqualizer received perhaps somewhat more enthusiastic "likes" than the others, but that's my subjective reaction. Thanks to all who responded. --Dave -- DAVID A. CURRY, CISSP * DIRECTOR OF INFORMATION SECURITY THE NEW SCHOOL * 55 W. 13TH STREET * NEW YORK, NY 10011 +1 212 229-5300 x4728 * david.curry () newschool edu<mailto:david.curry () newschool edu> On Thu, May 2, 2013 at 4:31 PM, David Curry <david.curry () newschool edu<mailto:david.curry () newschool edu>> wrote: We currently have an aging Packeteer whose sole remaining purpose in life is to "shape" peer-to-peer file sharing traffic (BitTorrent and friends) down to zero, thus keeping us from receiving DMCA takedown requests. It's worked well at this for several years, but now we're starting to max it out as far as licensed bandwidth goes, and we're not inclined to spend more money on such an old device. So... we're in the market for something new, and thought we'd ask what other schools are using. From a bit of research it looks like Procera and Exinda are still in that space; A10 has a product on their website still, but it doesn't look like there's much focus on it anymore (maybe we're wrong). Juniper SRX firewalls (which we own) have some capabilities in this space via their AppID stuff; we'd be interested in hearing from anyone using them for that purpose. And yes, we know that Palo Alto firewalls can do it -- but we don't have Palo Altos and have no plans to purchase them anytime soon, so that's not really an option for us. If you're using something OTHER THAN a Palo Alto firewall to block/limit/reduce peer-to-peer traffic: * What product are you using? * What are you doing with peer-to-peer (blocking, limiting, etc.) * How well is it working? * Do you like it? After responses taper off, I'll summarize back to the list. Thanks, --Dave -- DAVID A. CURRY, CISSP * DIRECTOR OF INFORMATION SECURITY THE NEW SCHOOL * 55 W. 13TH STREET * NEW YORK, NY 10011 +1 212 229-5300 x4728 * david.curry () newschool edu<mailto:david.curry () newschool edu>
Current thread:
- Blocking p2p traffic David Curry (May 02)
- Re: Blocking p2p traffic Russ Leathe (May 02)
- Re: Blocking p2p traffic Coffman, Tobiah (May 03)
- Re: Blocking p2p traffic David Curry (May 07)
- Re: Blocking p2p traffic Santabarbara, Angelo (May 07)
- Re: Blocking p2p traffic John Ladwig (May 07)
- Re: Blocking p2p traffic Miller,James R (May 07)
- Re: Blocking p2p traffic Leo Song (May 07)
- Re: Blocking p2p traffic David Curry (May 07)
- Re: Blocking p2p traffic Santabarbara, Angelo (May 07)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- Re: Blocking p2p traffic Robert Lau (May 03)
- Re: Blocking p2p traffic Russ Leathe (May 02)