Security Best Practice: Blocking iPhone Web Browsing on the Enterprise Wireless Network
The iPhone is an Internet and multimedia-enabled smartphone designed and marketed by Apple, Inc. Some organizations prefer to prevent the use of their wireless networks by smartphones for browsing the Internet, since those connections can potentially take up a lot of bandwidth and also because this kind of use may circumvent the organizational security policy.
The Check Point IPS Software Blade provides the ability for the network administrator to track the installation and usage of specific applications, and block usage of the applications as desired. It can also block specific communications protocols.
In this particular case, it can block HTTP browsing from iPhones that are connected to the corporate network. For more information about this protection, see Security Best Practice Bulletin SBP-2011-02.
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Last Updated: 08-Feb-2011