Sophos & YouTube

[MTDT]

Looking for some advice with someone more experienced with Sophos than myself.

 

We have some XG firewalls at our schools, however we have yet to find a way through Sophos to block YouTube but allow specific videos through.

 

Has anyone successfully achieved this and how did you get it working effectively?

[NegativeKillDeath]

It should just be the case of blocking the YouTube category but having a white list further up the list with the specific URLs you want to allow. That working in the simplest form but I wouldn't call it effective as you have to white list each URL and you can't do a whole channel in one go, only individual videos.

[ConTheITGuy]

It has been some time since I last did this but I had Youtube.com blocked but had a override wildcard for specific youtube URLs

[Wave9_Lee]

You can do it with a custom category

 

 

then add it to the web policy

you can also unblock specific channels while keeping Youtube itself blocked, but requires a bit more legwork...