ZoomInfo Community Edition and ZoomInfo Contact Contributor

[ksfarmer]

Does anyone have any experience in trying to protect an organization from data collection from the ZoomInfo Community Edition or ZoomInfo Contact Contributor using Meraki products (or other)?

https://www.zoominfo.com/about-zoominfo/privacy-policy

[BrandonS]

I don’t see the relation to Meraki or even networking in general here. Can you expand on what you are thinking?

[ksfarmer]

We use Meraki firewalls to protect against malware and block specific sites.  This program is a bit tricky and I was hoping to see if anyone had any successful experiences with using Meraki to prevent communications.

If this isn't the appropriate forum, is their such a place?

[BrandonS]

I see.  Probably the security topic is more appropriate and you can try to move you post there.

But it looks like Zoominfo is a public web crawling type service similar to a search engine that compiles data on phone numbers or IP addresses, etc.  It just crawls the web and compiles data.  I don't think it communicates directly with your network or your user's machines.

[CarolineS]

@ksfarmer / @BrandonS - I've moved this thread into the Security board as suggested. Cheers!

[ksfarmer]

thank you

[ksfarmer]

Yes, they do have webcrawler activity, but I'm specifically looking to try to block communication of two installed applications that they promote in exchange for free access to their data.  ZoomInfo Community Edition and ZoomInfo Contact Contributor are installed by users onto their machines and operate as an Outlook Plugin giving access to Exchange hosted global address book and scan emails for information listed in the link. 

I'll try to figure out how to move this to security topic.

thank you! 

[PhilipDAth]

Do a packet capture while using the app and then examine the DNS queries it makes.

Add firewall rules blocking access to those DNS names.