08-23-2024 05:58 AM
The 2140s are managed by FMC.
In my ACPs, I have a policy for blocking. In this policy, the main components it is blocking are URLs. We have all the default groups that should be blocked. And we also have a custom list of URLs that we block to. This list is made in Objects> security intelligence> URL lists and feeds.
The list is just a .txt file that is a master list of 1500+ URLs that we block and I just upload it into FMC. One of the urls on the list is www.tiktok.com, and it works great at blocking access to tiktok from a web browser.
The issue is that the tiktok app is still accessible. Weather it be a windows app or a ios/android phone app, you can still access it that way.
You can see in the screenshot of the access control policy that I did add tiktok and tiktok music app to the block list. That did not block the tiktok app though. I then went into objects>application filters and created a custom filter. I named it Tiktok and in there, also added tiktok and tiktok music app. I then applied that filter to the ACP. Still no luck. Tiktok is still accessible on phones and windows apps.
So I started to watch the logs as I was accessing tiktok from my phone to see what is coming up. I can see the tiktok web application being used, and noticed that everytime it is accessed, it is a different url everytime....
So my question is, what is the right way to make sure the tiktok app is blocked from our network? Am I doing the app blocking correctly? Is there some type of wildcard url filter I need to put in to block all the random tiktok urls coming up from the app being used? As I said, i am blocking "www.tiktok.com" from web browsers via url filtering, but just cant figure out how to block the actual app.
Thanks!
08-23-2024 11:26 AM
Seems like this is going to get more complicated than what I thought
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