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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

Yes, the year of me. The year of: I will use whatever app I want and you can’t stop me. Social networking, Google apps, streaming media, web mail, instant messaging, and file sharing of all types – are all running rampant on our networks – right beside SAP, Jive, salesforce.com, and GoToMeeting.

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Rene Bonvanie application usage & risk report, file sharing, firewall, social networking

Today I saw this article in Wired on Dropbox and found it very interesting based on the classic David vs Goliath comparison, where the small, innovative solution is pitted against the larger, more established solutions and vendors (Apple and their new iCloud offering). In this respect, the Dropbox vs. Apple story is similar to the Palo Alto Networks story of bringing new innovation to a very established market (firewall), against pretty tall odds, competing against large, established vendors.

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Matt App-ID, application control, enterprise 2.0