Five Facts About Application Usage on Canadian Enterprise Networks

Application Usage and Risk Report December 2011

Average number of social networking applications per organization?

A total of 58 different social networking applications were found in 94% of the 49 participating organizations with an

average of 15 found in each network.

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Which application is used more heavily?

Based on the percentage of social networking bandwidth consumed in the 49 participating Canadian organizations, Zynga games were used more heavily than Linkedin.

Social networking is more active in Canada with games, plugins, posting

used more heavily than they are globally. Organizations must balance

social networking application use with the associated risks – setting

appropriate enablement policies and more importantly educate users what

those policies are.

Average number of browser-based filesharing applications per organization?

A total of 36 different browser-based filesharing applications were found in 86% of the 49 participating

organizations with an average of 10 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 187 or 27% of the 703 applications found in the participating

Canadian organizations.

187

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

65% of the total bandwidth is being consumed by 282 (40% of 703) 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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