Five Facts About Application Usage on Enterprise Networks Application Usage and Risk Report December 2011

Average number of social networking applications per organization?

A total of 71 different social networking applications were found in 97% of the 1,636 participating organizations. An average of 16 were found on each network.

Which application is showed the most significant Y-O-Y growth rate?

Based on the percentage of social networking bandwidth consumed, Twitter increased 7-fold in a year-over-year comparison.

Social networking becomes more active. While Facebook is the dominant application, Twitter and in rest action oriented uses increased significantly in Y-O-Y comparison.

Average number of browser-based filesharing applications per organization?

A total of 65 different browser-based filesharing applications were found in 92% of the 1,636 participating organizations. An average of 13 were found on each network.

Browser-based filesharing use cases: work or entertainment. Both uses have a common set of business and security risks that organizations must address.

The number of applications using Port 80 (tcp/80) only?

The number of applications that ONLY use Port 80 is 297 or 25% of the 1,195 applications found in the participating organizations.

Percentage of total bandwidth consumed by applications not using tcp/80?

51% of the total bandwidth is being consumed by 413 (35% of 1,195) applications that DO NOT USE port 80 at all. Ever.

Port 80 only security is shortsighted. The common perception is that Port 80 (tcp/80) is where all the traffic and all the problems are. A port 80 emphasis is an absolute requirement; but too much focus is shortsighted.

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