|
YouTube is a popular free video sharing Web site that
lets users upload, view, and share video clips. Founded in
February 2005, the website is based on services that utilize
Adobe Flash technology to display video. The wide variety of
site content includes movie and TV clips and music videos, as
well as amateur content such as videoblogging. In October
2006, Google, Inc. announced that it had reached a deal to
acquire the company for $1.65 billion USD in Google's stock,
which is expected to close in the fourth quarter of 2006.
Playing video clips online will consume some extends of
the bandwidth of the corporate network and such behavior will
greatly reduce the employees’ productivity if viewed during
the office hours.
BroadWeb BSST has defined the following signatures:
# 1052709 POLICY YouTube Online stream media
attempt
This signature detects and prevents YouTube from
playing videos with Online Macromedia Flash Video (FLV) stream
techniques via HTTP protocol.
# 1052708 POLICY YouTube Online login attempt
This signature detects and prevents users from
logging onto YouTube website and thus prevents them from
upload and download videos.
If company’s ploicy does not allow internal users to
access YouTube, please change the actions of the above two
signatures to drop packets and reset connections.
Broadweb Security Service Team (BSST) - Empower Your
Network Security
Broadweb NetKeeper Intruder Prevention System delivers
the protection against intrusion, worms, DDOS, Instant
messaging, P2P, Web-Mail, and Web
Post. | 