Deep inspection with streaming media

Forum|Forum|2 years ago
April 27, 2024
4 replies
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Hi FortiGate admins

When enabling deep inspection for streaming media sites (like youtube), will it deep-inspect video stream as well? I mean inspecting gigabytes of videos (mp4 and so) is probably useless and it consumes much CPU for nothing.

FortiGate

DPadula

Staff & Editor

Hi AEK,

No, to "inspect" video you need to enable video filter.

https://docs.fortinet.com/document/fortigate/7.0.0/new-features/190873/video-filtering

The video filter will NOT inspect the contend of the video, it will block or allow a channel on youtube according to its ID.

So a video won't be allow or deny according to its contend basically, but to its change-id.

AEKAuthor

SuperUser

Thanks @DPadula , it's reassuring, because in some other NGFW of other constructor I've seen deep inspection decrypting, inspecting and re-encrypting tons of Youtube videos, causing huge CPU overhead for nothing.

AEK

DPadula

Staff & Editor

Hi AEK,
Could you please tell me the vendor so I can have a look on this feature?

Thanks

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