topic Re: How to block Spotify in Palo Alto in General Topics

How to block Spotify in Palo Alto

evsivier — Fri, 09 Feb 2018 17:49:43 GMT

Hello world !

despite spotify being an awesome P2P solution for music, it has been a headache to HR management.

So, we were asked to identify an way to block the usage of Spotify in our machines.

What´s the way we should use in order to get it done in Palo Alto ?

Re: How to block Spotify in Palo Alto

Retired Member — Thu, 22 Feb 2018 12:05:30 GMT

PAN-OS recognises spotify as an application, so you can simply put in a Security Policy to block any traffic with application 'spotify'. This should be placed above the relevant 'allow outbound traffic' rule in your firewall(s)

For a live demo, watch this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mi1iIQp2fyk

They are blocking Skype, but you'd block Spotify the same way (just substitute the 'spotify' application)

Re: How to block Spotify in Palo Alto

reaper — Thu, 22 Feb 2018 12:49:47 GMT

Spotify does partly run on ssl so you'll probably need to perform ssl decryption to ensure everything is blocked

you'll also want to block rtmp