Five Facts About ApplicationUsage on Enterprise Networks

in Taiwan

Application Usage and Risk Report December 2011

Average number of social networking applications per organization?

A total of 61 different social networking applications were found in 99% of the 148 participating organizations with an

average of 12 found on each network.

12

Which application is used more heavily?

Based on the percentage of social networking bandwidth consumed, Zynga games consumed 10% of the bandwidth

while Twitter consumed only 2%.

Taiwan social networking usage is active. Facebook dominates but action oriented (apps, games, posting, and

plugins) usage is greater in Taiwan than it is globally.

Average number of browser-based filesharing applications per organization?

A total of 53 different browser-based filesharing applications were found in 97% of the 148 participating

organizations with an average of 15 in each.

15

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 228 or 25% of the 898 applications found in the participating

organizations.

228

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

Only 18% of the total bandwidth is being consumed by 292 (33% of 898) applications that DO NOT USE port 80 at all.

Ever.

18%

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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