topic Re: Blocking Google Drive in General Topics

Blocking Google Drive

justynfortenberry — Tue, 14 Feb 2017 18:20:24 GMT

Hey guys,

I'm trying to block Google Drive. I've tried a variety of things: URL Filtering for online-storage (which works for Dropbox, icloud etc). But Google Drive still works...I researched and found quite a few forum posts on the topic and see that decryption is most likely required in order to see the traffic in order to block it.

Is there a way to block Google Drive without enabled decryption?

I've got a PA 3020 on 7.1.6

Re: Blocking Google Drive

BPry — Tue, 14 Feb 2017 19:24:56 GMT

I'm not going to say that it isn't possible to block Google Drive without decrypting the traffic. That being said though, pretty much anything with Google services is going to work pretty poorly unless you are decryting the traffic.

Re: Blocking Google Drive

SuperMario — Fri, 08 Jun 2018 02:31:44 GMT

Here is how you can block Google Drive or any other Google app like the new Google Backup and Sync without doing decryption:

https://live.paloaltonetworks.com/t5/Management-Articles/Google-Drive-Does-Not-Match-to-quot-online-personal-storage-quot/ta-p/60103

The above article also explains why, due to SSL encryption, this type of apps is allowed.

Cheers,

Re: Blocking Google Drive

Raido_Rattameister — Fri, 08 Jun 2018 15:26:48 GMT

@SuperMario last line of the link you provided:

Note: SSL decryption is necessary in order to identify the correct app-id "google-drive-web".

You need to decrypt traffic.

Re: Blocking Google Drive

AmeyVichare — Thu, 11 Jan 2024 05:30:34 GMT

Is it possible to only block uploads on GDrive as blocking "google-drive-web" application blocks both download and upload on GDrive

or to just block the uploads i need to configure DLP ?