Opera 'Off-Road' Mode bypasses PaloAlto Filtering

[Taunton81]

Hi All

 

We currently have 2 PaloAlto PA-500 Firewall appliances. The other day we discovered if you use Opera Web Browser and switch on 'Off-Road' mode it bypasses any filtering.

 

Looking at the monitor logs it simply shows up as 'Web-Browsing' to Amazon Cloud Services.

 

I then discovered if you use the latest version of Chrome on a mobile device, you can switch on 'Data Compression' and that too bypasses all filtering.

 

I have logged a call with PaloAlto and they are looking into this. Slightly surprised that they have not already seen this.

 

Anyone else discovered this? If so have you got a work around?

 

Thanks

 

Tom