Since the inaugural Application Usage and Risk Report (Spring Edition, 2008), browser-based file-sharing usage in terms of frequency has steadily increased to the point where it now exceeds that of peer-to-peer file sharing.
There is a somewhat erroneous assumption that the web provides anonymity – in particular when someone is posting a comment on an article. And then there is the old saying that knowledge is power. The challenge some people face is what to do with it.
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 [...]
The most recent discovery of the first lady’s safe house (Laura Bush) and a detailed list of the civilian nuclear complex, including precise locations of weapons grade nuclear fuel follows closely on the heals of previous P2P discoveries of Marine One blueprints and healthcare records.
Should we really be surprised? No not really, given the findings [...]
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 [...]
SharePoint is Microsoft’s collaboration tool that can be used to host web sites and provide access to shared workspaces, documents and specialized applications such as wikis and blogs. SharePoint sites are actually ASP.NET applications, which are hosted on Microsoft IIS and use a Microsoft SQL Server database as data storage backend.
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 [...]
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 [...]
