Often we talk about how destination port is not an accurate classification for controlling network traffic. At this point, hopefully that is obvious. Everyone knows that just about anything can get out of an enterprise network via port 80 or 443. Lately I have had several discussions with customers curious about protocol validation and ensuring [...]

Looking for data leaks in email, IM and web traffic is easy, but that does not even begin to solve the problem. These are just few applications among the hundreds of application that are capable of file transfer – peer-to-peer applications, skype, online backup services and gmail to name a few. There are many examples of organizations losing data through peer-to-peer networks, such as Walter Reed and the Tokyo Police department.

ANALYSIS – This article is a perfect example of why enterprise organizations should take a close look at their policies on use of webmail accounts. More and more employees rely on their personal email accounts to keep in touch with the outside world even during work hours and because many of these webmail applications [...]