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Securing Your Business Applications
In a recent study conducted by an International organisation Palo Alto Networks between August 2008 and December 2008 representing the behavior of nearly 900,000 users have summarized the following:
- More than half (57%) of the 494 applications found can bypass security infrastructure- hopping from port to port, using port 80 or port 443. Some examples of these applications include Microsoft SharePoint, Microsoft Groove and a host of software update services
- Proxies that are typically not endorsed by corporate IT and remote desktop access applications (LogMeIn!, RDP, PCAnywhere) were found 81% and 95% of time, respectively
- File Sharing usage rampant - P2P was found 92% of the time, with BitTorrent and Gnutella as the most common of 21 variants found
- More than half (51%) of the bandwidth is being consumed by a little more than a quarter (28%) of the applications, most of which are consumer-oriented (media, social networking, P2P and browser-based file sharing, web-browsing and toolbars)
- Businesses are spending heavily to protect their networks - yet they cannot control the applications on the network.
How many of the following applications are running on your network?
The traditional tools that organisations have at their disposal cannot see the applications traversing the network, or can see only a fraction of these applications. Applications themselves are designed to bypass the infrastructure tools, or employees actively bypass them using a range of applications. While blindly blocking all the applications is an unreasonable response, the risks that many of these applications represent are too significant to ignore.
For nearly two decades, the firewall has been an essential tool for protecting the boundaries of virtually every enterprise network from unauthorised access to confidential business information and network resources.
But in recent years, changes in network traffic, applications and threats have reduced the effectiveness of the traditional firewall. Internet savvy employees are using a new generation of Internet applications…some of which are able to bypass the firewall and other security controls.
CommsNet Group can help you restore visibility and control over applications, users and content. We can help you reduce
- Up to 80% of capital expenditure
- Up to 65% running costs such as subscriptions, power
- Up to 65% operations costs
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