Five Facts About Application
Usage on Enterprise Networks
in Australia and New Zealand
Application Usage and Risk Report
December 2011

Average number of social networking
applications per organization?
A total of 34 different social networking applications were
found in 86% of the 21 participating organizations with an
average of 20 found on each network.

Which application is used more heavily?
Based on the percentage of social networking bandwidth
consumed in the 21 participating ANZ organizations, Tumblr
is used more heavily than Facebook.

Facebook takes a Tumblr. This NYC-based micro-blogging
site is used more heavily in ANZ than any other social
networking application. ANZ is the only geography where
Tumblr was used so heavily and it highlights the fact that where
the application is developed has little bearing on where it is
popular.

Average number of browser-based
filesharing applications per organization?
A total of 34 different browser-based filesharing
applications were found in 81% of the 21 participating
organizations with an average of 12 in each.

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 157 or
28% of the 566 applications found in the participating ANZ
organizations.

Percentage of total bandwidth consumed
by applications not using tcp/80?
67% of the total bandwidth is being consumed by 219 (39%
of 566) 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.

Palo Alto Networks Application Usage
and Risk Report
www.paloaltonetworks.com/aur