Security Best Practice: Blocking TeamViewer
| Check Point Reference: | SBP-2008-08 | |
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| Source: | SmartDefense Research Center | |
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| Who is Vulnerable? TeamViewer users | ||
| Vulnerability Description TeamViewer is a cross-platform remote control application that allows the user to take complete control over a computer anywhere on the Internet, even through firewalls. TeamViewer also has file-sharing and chat capabilities. The use of TeamViewer may circumvent the organizational security policy. |
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Vulnerability Details Some organizations prefer to prevent their employees from using remote control applications, since many of these applications are prone to multiple vulnerabilities. Also, remote connections can potentially take up a lot of bandwidth, because these sessions transmit picture, mouse, and keyboard data from the remote computer. In addition, remote connections capabilities such as file transfer are a potential source of virus and worm infections. |
Protection Overview
By enabling this protection, SmartDefense will block TeamViewer version 3.
In order for the protection to be activated, update your VPN-1/InterSpect product to the latest SmartDefense update. For information on how to update SmartDefense, go to SBP-2006-05, Protection tab and select the version of your choice.
To configure the defense, select your product from the list below and follow the related protection steps.