Re: Peer to Peer Blocking

[Chris Steele <chris.steele () ANGELO EDU>]

We put a Packeteer in place about 3 years ago to squeeze the P2P traffic so
it is basically unusable. It seems to be a pretty good deterrent so far.



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Subject: [SECURITY] Peer to Peer Blocking



Our college has received Copyright warnings from the Recording Industry
concerning what they believe to be improper music downloads using 'peer to
peer' networks, such as BearShare, BitTorent, LineWire, Gnutella, KaZaA,
etc.

Has anyone implemented a  'peer to peer' Blocking service to address this
issue?  Pros and Cons?  Or are there other solutions?





Ability is what you're capable of doing.
    Motivation determines what you do.
        Attitude determines how well you do it.
-Lee Holz

Jim Schug
Information Security Instructor
http://oncampus.matc.edu/infosec
Milwaukee Area Technical College
5555 West Highland Road, Mequon, WI 53092  USA
Phone: (262) 238-2267

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