ANALYSIS – This Network World article raises an interesting question. And the answer is Facebook and other web 2.0 applications, can be considered enterprise applications when they are used internally as collaboration, education, and recruiting tools. This trend makes perfect sense for several reasons. First off, new employees are using these tools [...]

ANALYSIS – As more and more schools look to gain visibility into the use of peer-to-peer (P2P) and other applications running on their networks, UC Santa Cruz, arguably one of the more liberal and vocal members of the UC system, has implemented P2P control policies. Maybe they figured if it works here, they can [...]

ANALYSIS – This article is downright humorous. Here we have two networking companies, each with security products or at a minimum, security features, who have indirectly endorsed the same application category (P2P) that has been the source of some of the largest data leakage incidents in recent times. Granted, the software was not the [...]