Re: Blocking URLs

["Blackwood, James" <jblackwood () LAGRANGE EDU>]

If you know they URLs you want to block beforehand you could put them in your local DNS redirecting to a warning page.  
Not a high-end solution but definitely cost effective.

James



From: The EDUCAUSE Security Constituent Group Listserv on behalf of Chris Green
Reply-To: The EDUCAUSE Security Constituent Group Listserv
Date: Friday, July 31, 2015 at 12:46 PM
To: "SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU<mailto:SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU>"
Subject: [SECURITY] Blocking URLs

All,

We are looking for a cost effective solution to prevent users from accessing sites when they fall for phishing 
attempts. Right now we are blocking IPs for those sites in our firewall, but this is not a great solution for us as we 
don’t want to load up our firewall with these types of rules, and the majority of these sites use dynamic IPs, so it’s 
a temporary fix at best.

I wanted to see if anyone had come up with a solution for this dilemma that doesn’t involve dropping six figures on an 
application firewall.

Thanks,

-C.

Chris Green
Information Security Officer
University of Texas at Tyler