How to block LogMeIn

• All FortiGate units.

LogMeIn (www.logmein.com) is an application that requires a user behind a firewall to connect to a central server. Using login credentials provided using the logmein website, a user can access a PC and control that PC from the Internet.

This type of configuration does not use any forwarded ports from the firewall. Rather, it uses standard SSL (HTTPS) to encrypt the communication between client, server and remote PC.

Because the PC on the secured network needs to make the initial connection, we can block this access at the FortiGate unit.

To block access to LogMeIn

1. Edit the URL filter list by going to Web Filter> URL Filter.
2. Create a new regex entry with ^logmein\.com as the URL.
   
3. Edit your outbound firewall protection profile by going to Firewall> Protection Profile to enable URL filter checking for HTTP and HTTPS and select the new URL entry from the list.

With the above configuration, users will no longer be able to establish sessions with the LogMeIn servers.