how to block torrent in fortigate firewall

So i use this website to download all the torrents i need! Give a thums up if its helpful for you. My college firewall blocks all the torrent network flow. I use a Fortigate, but I've read wonderful things about many different brand UTMs on here. Catching who started the download will be time consuming, and unless you intend to fire the person that downloaded the files, there is not much finding them will accomplish. On a side note, I would forget about tracking down the person that initiated the download unless it is important to your supervisor or to your lawsuit. Note that OpenDNS will not stop people if they already know the IP address the site or service that they want to use, it only stops them from doing DNS lookups on blocked sites. Depending on your budget, it might make more sense to use a service like OpenDNS, which will allow you to use their website lists to block various sites depending on your needs. I would force wireless users through a local proxy server such as squid to achieve this. If you want to get really hard core with your wireless security you could setup a white list system, where people using the wireless can only use websites and services that you have pre-configured at the firewall. I would also try to lock down the number of people using your guest network. You can find IP lists online that you can configure your firewall to auto update block lists from. I'd love to know what you guys use to protect yourself.Ī good first step to avoid issues like this is to block things at the firewall like TOR exit nodes, FTP servers, and so on. Blocking ports would be next to impossible since P2P can operate on basically any port it wants to. What can I do to prevent this in the future? It happened on our guest wireless network (password is widely known).

Luckily it was on a weekend and there were only four people there so shouldn't be hard to find out who it was.

I've narrowed it down to an Android phone (MAC appears to be a Samsung phone) and I know when it was in the building. We're getting sued by a porn company because our internet service was used to download a porn file using P2P (torrent).

How to block torrent in fortigate firewall