Sonicwall Signatures

Application: Google Plus

Google Plus (Google+) is a social networking platform from Google, Inc. It allows friends to share News Feed Posts, Suggestions/Likes, Video and Photo uploads. This application occurs over SSL (TCP/443) to https://plus.google.com. The SSL Certificate used by the server is *.google.com. There are only two ways to block Google+ SSL: enable this application and DPI-SSL Client Inspection, or enable SID/6454 ("Google" application) which will block all SSL to any *.google.com including GMAIL and all other Google services.