Palo Alto Networks Application Usage and Risk Report - Key Findings for China

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

Average number of social networking applications per organization?A total of 48 different social networking applications were found in 94% of the 18 participating organizations with an average of 7 found on each network.

Which application is used more heavily? Based on the percentage of social networking bandwidth consumed in the 18 participating organizations, Renrenconsumed 34%. Facebook and Twitter consumed 1% and 0% respectively.

Local social networking applications dominate. Facebook, Twitter and their “active” uses struggle for their share of bandwidth.

Average number of browser-basedfilesharing applications per organization? A total of 30 different browser-based filesharing applications were found in 89% of the participating organizations with an average of 8 in each.

Browser-based filesharing use cases: work orentertainment. 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 135 or 26% of the 535 applications found in the participating organizations.

Percentage of total bandwidth consumed by applications not using tcp/80?49% of the total bandwidth is being consumed by 161 (30% of 535) applications that DO NOT USE port 80 at all. Ever.

Port 80 only security is shortsighted. The commonperception 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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Palo Alto Networks Application Usage and Risk Report - Key Findings for China

by Palo Alto Networks on Jan 19, 2012

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