Security Best Practice: Blocking Gnutella
| Check Point Reference: | SBP-2009-26 | |
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| Source: | IPS Research Center | |
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| Who is Vulnerable? Gnutella users | ||
| Vulnerability Description Gnutella is a popular file sharing network, and one of the most popular Peer to Peer protocols, used by applications such as BearShare, Shareaza, Morpheus and iMesh. File sharing applications are commonly used to exchange MP3 music files, videos, applications, and documents. The use of Gnutella may circumvent the organizational security policy. |
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Vulnerability Details Peer to peer Internet traffic, such as Gnutella, slows critical business applications on corporate networks. It lowers employee productivity as they take time away from their work to download music and videos. This sort of traffic also significantly increases companies Internet communication costs and requires them to purchase additional bandwidth. |
Protection Overview
This protection will detect and block the Gnutella peer to peer application. The protection is able to detect peer to peer traffic regardless of the TCP port that is being used to initiate the peer to peer session.
To configure the defense, select your product from the list below and follow the related protection steps.