Firewall Profile to restrict Social networks

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Edgar Gomez Platinum Contributor
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Hello,

A customer of us has a user application that has an option of social networks, which opens a webview, inside the app, to the website of the social network. So we think the Firewall profile could serve for this porpouse, but there you have to input the IP address of remote host, and since there are lots of IPs for Facebook, for instance, how could we achieve this restriction ?

Samsung devices (Android+).

I appreciate your suggestions.

7 years ago
Android
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SMod@Soti
7 years ago

Hi Edgar,

Currently, firewall policy only support blocking IP addresses on specific ports for different apps. So I see a limited use of this functionality for your use case.

Here is what you can try:

1. Open the app and try to open the social network site (webview opens)

2. Send the following script to the device: identify_activity

3. This script will get the name of the activity inside the app that opens the social website and you can get this name in the web console in device logs

4. Now blacklist the above activity using Application Run Control

5. See if the user is able to access that social website again in the App

Please let me know if this would be a possible way to accomplish this.

Thanks

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Edgar Gomez
7 years ago

Hello, 

It worked fine. 

The app closes when social networks are selected. I hope this does not bother users too much.

Thank you.