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10 Cool Things Your Firewall Should Do
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Ever wished you could limit social networking traffic on your network, stop proprietary information before it leaves your company or make sure your business applications get the bandwidth they need? Download the "10 Cool Things Your Firewall Should Do" eBook to learn how firewalls can not only block all types of threats, but help you easily manage the applications and data on your network as well.

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1st Cool Thing: Managing Streaming Video

Access to streaming video sites, such as youtube.com is sometimes useful but often abused. Blocking the site might work, but the best answer could be to limit the bandwidth given to streaming video sites.

Create a policy to limit streaming video

  • Use the Deep Packet Inspection (DPI) engine to look for HTTP Host = www.youtube.com in HTTP header
  • Apply bandwidth restrictions to traffic with that header

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