How to block stock market trading programs in network?

Employees can spend hours on reading market data and online stock trading. To keep productivity, it is necessary to block online trading traffic during working hours.

This tutorial will guide you to block “Nest trader” and “(IIFL) Trader Terminal” traffic in your network.

Since WFilter does not have these two protocols supported in default, you need to add customize protocols in “System Settings”->”Customize Protocols”.

1. Block IIFL trade terminal

1). Add a new protocol named “IIFL Trader”, choose a protocol type.

2). Add a new pattern, choose pattern “Type” as “TLS”. Set pattern content as “swaraj\.indiainfoline\.com”.

3). Check “Block IIFL Trader” in your blocking policy.

4). Now IIFL trader can be blocked.

2. Block “Nest trader”

1). Add a new protocol named “Nest Trader”, choose a protocol type.

2). Add a new pattern, choose pattern “Type” as “TCP SEND”. Set pattern content as “^\x00\x00\x00\x13\x52\x55\x00\x0f\x6c\x69\x63\x65\x6e\x73\x65\x5f\x63\x68\x65\x63\x6b\x65\x72″.

3). Check “Block Nest Trader” in your blocking policy.

4). Done. Now Nest trader will also be blocked.

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