Five Facts About ApplicationUsage on Enterprise Networks

in DACH(Germany, Switzerland, Austria)

Application Usage and Risk Report December 2011

Average number of social networking applications per organization?

A total of 62 different social networking applications were found in 97% of the 62 participating organizations with an

average of 19 found on each network.

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Which application is used more heavily?

Based on the percentage of social networking bandwidth consumed , Vkontakte consumed 5% while Studivz and

Meinvz consumed 3% each. Facebook and Twitter consume the most bandwidth at 39% and 24% respectively.

Facebook dominates. Local applications are found frequently. Active social networking application (games,

posting, plugins, apps) usage is inline with the global usage patterns.

Average number of browser-based filesharing applications per organization?

A total of 48 different browser-based filesharing applications were found in 90% of the 62 participating

organizations with an average of 13 in each.

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Browser-based filesharing use cases: work or entertainment. Both uses have a common set of business

and security risks that organizations must address.

The number of applications using Port 80 (tcp/80) only?

The number of applications that ONLY use Port 80 is 217 or 26% of the 833 applications found in the participating

organizations.

217

Percentage of total bandwidth consumed by applications not using tcp/80?

65% of the total bandwidth is being consumed by 250 (30% of 973) applications that DO NOT USE port 80 at all. Ever.

65%

Port 80 only security is shortsighted. The common perception is that Port 80 (tcp/80) is where all the traffic and all

the problems are. A port 80 emphasis is an absolute requirement; but too much focus is shortsighted.

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