Technical Tip: Blocking TurboVPN for the mobile users

Description

This article explains how to block TurboVPN for mobile users.

Turbo VPN is a popular free VPN proxy client for Android and iOS. Google Play reports the app has had more than 50 million installs, and it's easy to see why. The free service gives access to nine servers across North America, Europe and Asia, and there are no bandwidth limits or restrictions.

For starters, they use the best-in-class OpenVPN tunnelling protocol. It’s an open sourced system, so it’s kept up to date by a vast community watching each other’s backs.

Paired with OpenVPN is government-level AES-256 encryption.

Some users can try to bypass the Firewall by using TurboVpn to use the sites which are blocked internally in the network.

Scope

FortiGate.

Solution

For the network safety and to control the users from accessing the Websites that are blocked by the Firewall, it is possible to block TurboVPN use.

The TurboVPN application signature on FortiOS is there, but blocking the application requires blocking the dependent application as well. In this case, it is ISAKMP.

Create an Application control profile or Edit the default.

Add the 'ISAKMP', 'Turbo.VPN','QUIC' (Mandatory) to the application override, and set the action to block.