Re: In practice how are firewalls used to protect IM traffic?

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On Tuesday 2010-06-15 13:00, paddy joesoap wrote:
>
>I'd imagine that some enterprises want to inspect at the firewall (or
>even by IDS) layer-7 packet payloads.

And I imagine that I prefer my piece of privacy. (Not so much
certificate indentity.)

>For example, ensure a user with
>a JID of xyz@xxxxxxxxxx cannot send packets through the firewall or a
>particular malware signature or malicious Web URL that is embedded
>with IM conversations is blocked.

The complexity usually warrants a userspace inspection program -
such as the jabber server itself. After all this is an authentication
issue.

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