1. Five Facts About Application
Usage on Enterprise Networks
in the Nordics
(Denmark, Finland, Norway, Sweden)
Application Usage and Risk Report
December 2011

3. Average number of social networking
applications per organization?
A total of 63 different social networking applications were
found in 87% of the 55 participating organizations with an
average of 15 found on each network.

5. Which application is used more heavily?
(Vkontakte)
Based on the percentage of social networking bandwidth
consumed, vkontakte, originally a Russian only site
consumed 20%. Twitter consumed a mere 8%.

6. Nordics social networking usage is very international.
Vkontakte (Russian), Tumblr (USA) and heavy plugin usage
makes Nordics social networking very international and active.
Facebook still most heavily used.

8. Average number of browser-based
filesharing applications per organization?
A total of 42 different browser-based filesharing
applications were found in 78% of the 55 participating
organizations with an average of 10 in each.

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

11. The number of applications
using Port 80 (tcp/80) only?
The number of applications that ONLY use Port 80 is 203 or
26% of the 785 applications found in the participating
organizations.

13. Percentage of total bandwidth consumed
by applications not using tcp/80?
42% of the total bandwidth is being consumed by 220 (28%
of 785) applications that DO NOT USE port 80 at all. Ever.

14. 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.

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