{"id":4333,"date":"2026-06-08T17:56:17","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T14:56:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/support.withsecure.com\/en\/?post_type=support_article&#038;p=4333"},"modified":"2026-06-08T17:56:17","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T14:56:17","slug":"how-to-block-users-from-downloading-a-specific-file-format-with-elements-endpoint-protection","status":"publish","type":"support_article","link":"https:\/\/support.withsecure.com\/en\/support-articles\/how-to-block-users-from-downloading-a-specific-file-format-with-elements-endpoint-protection\/","title":{"rendered":"How to block users from downloading a specific file format with Elements Endpoint Protection?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Issue:<\/h3>\n<p>How can I block the download of a specific file type, for example MP4 or EXE, with Elements Endpoint Protection (EPP for Computers or EPP for Servers)?\u00a0<\/p>\n<h3>Resolution:<\/h3>\n<p>EPP for Computers and EPP for Servers have the Browsing Protection feature called Content Type Filtering, which can be used to block specific content types.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><b>Note:<\/b>\u00a0The content type filtering is only performed if Security Cloud <u><b>does not recognize<\/b><\/u> the website address (URL) the content originates from.<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Log in to Elements Endpoint Protection Portal\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Go to the <b>Profiles<\/b> page<\/li>\n<li>Select the Profile to modify<\/li>\n<li>Go to the <b>Browsing Protection<\/b>\u00a0settings<\/li>\n<li>Click\u00a0<b>Add Content Type filter<\/b>:\n<ul>\n<li>Content Type: application\/*mp4*<\/li>\n<li>Filename: *.mp4<\/li>\n<li>Description: Block MP4 file<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Click <b>Save and Publish<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How can I block the download of mp4 files in Computer Protection?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","support_article_product":[99],"class_list":["post-4333","support_article","type-support_article","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":{"source_foreign_id":"000005607","source_version":3,"source_system":"salesforce","source_date_updated":"2026-06-08 14:56:17","import_hash":"fbb081f992d10b91458b668a40c056054157792b","vanilla_article_id":32443,"vanilla_url":"https:\/\/community.withsecure.com\/en\/kb\/articles\/32443-how-to-block-users-from-downloading-a-specific-file-format-with-elements-endpoint-protection","vanilla_kb_id":30,"vanilla_category_id":102,"machine_translated":false,"reactions_helpful_yes":0,"reactions_helpful_no":0},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/support.withsecure.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/support_article\/4333","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/support.withsecure.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/support_article"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/support.withsecure.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/support_article"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/support.withsecure.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"support_article_product","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/support.withsecure.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/support_article_product?post=4333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}