A recent survey suggests that more than 50% of the companies are blocking social networking. I read that and asked myself do they really believe that? I ask because our analysis of application traffic on more than 200 companies around the world proves otherwise. We found 27 different social networking applications across 95% of the [...]

What do LinkedIn, Twitter, Blogging and Wikis have in common? According to this article, they are increasingly used within enterprises with a quarter of organizations actually rolling out these types of tools across all departments, up from 12% in the previous survey. The survey also points out the blended use of these applications for both [...]

A recent survey assembled by RSA and IDG on the “hyper-extended enterprise” highlighted the challenges enterprises face as they move at light speed into the new applications landscape and two points stuck out. The first point was that enterprises need to rework their acceptable use policies and the second is that users need to be [...]

It is merely the bandwidth being consumed by video (and photo) application usage. A somewhat random factoid posted on TechCrunch.com stated that every minute, 20 hours of video is uploaded to YouTube. Think about that. There are 1,440 minutes in a day, which equates to 2,880 hours of video. It is a remarkable statistic, given [...]

This TechCrunch article outlines how Hulu Networks, the rapidly growing purveyor of streaming HD content, is taking some fairly extreme steps to make sure that their content is only accessed by users in the US. Apparently anyone with an anonymous IP address is blocked. An interesting step that will, in all likelihood, fail.
Why? It’s all [...]

Anybody can set up external proxies.

Today’s post will cover several interesting tidbits of data about remote control products. The first tidbit comes from the recently released Verizon Data Breach Report which paints a detailed picture of how cybercrime is making money. The report looked at 90 data breaches that resulted in a loss of 285 million records. The item that [...]

On April 15th, we participated in a very successful webinar with Dark Reading entitled “Why Bad Security Breaches Keep Happening To Good Organizations”. During the back and forth between the two speakers, we took a poll of the attendees, asking them the following question:
Which applications do you think are currently running in your organization’s IT [...]

This TechCrunch article highlights three security holes in Google Docs, each of which varies in terms of severity. The most severe, according to the researcher, is an issue where a user whose permission to share/view your document has been revoked may still be able to see the documents.
Several observations come to mind. First off, is [...]