While our resident research analyst and long-standing author of the Palo Alto Networks Application Usage and Risk Report, Matt Keil, is out speaking at one of our European User Group Conferences this week, I was asked to provide an overview of country-specific findings based on our latest research.
What was the one defining similarity among employees’ use of applications in the workplace across the 19 different countries/regions we analyzed? A love for social networking applications.
Our data underscores how active employees are on social networks and that it’s not all about Facebook—the iconic social network dominates the North American and European markets, but not so throughout Asia and Japan.
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Mike
For some time now, we have been watching the browser-based filesharing market which has expanded to where we saw 65 different application offerings in the latest Application Usage and Risk Report. A large number in any market, but particularly one that is quite young and has only gathered adoption among consumers — not businesses – for now. As with any market expansion, segmentation into distinct uses cases is occurring: work/productivity and entertainment. Lately, we’ve seen lots of media headlines about companies such as DropBox and Box.net, both of which we include in our work/productivity segment. Read more…
Matt
application usage & risk report, file sharing, firewall
In last week’s blog entry, Rene’ aptly termed 2011 as the Year of Me; the year when social media and a wide range of other personal applications were used in abundance on corporate networks. We predict that the usage patterns will continue and we need look no further than the latest edition of our Application Usage and Risk Report (December 2011) which highlights a significant shift from the passive or voyeuristic use we saw in October 2010to the more active, action oriented use that we see in this report. Social-plugins, Facebook apps, games and posting for LinkedIn, Twitter and Facebook viewed collectively, increased more than 300% in a year-over-year comparison while Twitter use increased a staggering 700%. Read more…
Matt
application control, application usage & risk report, file sharing, firewall, social networking
