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Traffic Analysis: P2P Found 92% of the Time

The most recent discovery of the first lady’s safe house (Laura Bush) and a detailed list of the civilian nuclear complex, including precise locations of weapons grade nuclear fuel follows closely on the heals of previous P2P discoveries of Marine One blueprints and healthcare records.

Should we really be surprised? No not really, given the findings form the latest Application Usage and Risk Report: ...

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Jul 30, 2009

By Matt Keil

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Application usage & risk report, Firewall

The Case for Application Enablement

What do LinkedIn, Twitter, Blogging and Wikis have in common? According to this article, they are increasingly used within enterprises with a quarter of organizations actually rolling out these types of tools across all departments, up from...

Jul 10, 2009

By Matt Keil

Application Advisory/Analysis

Seven Things You May Not Know About Microsoft SharePoint

SharePoint is Microsoft’s collaboration tool that can be used to host web sites and provide access to shared workspaces, documents and specialized applications such as wikis and blogs. SharePoint sites are actu...

Jul 01, 2009

By Matt Keil

Application usage & risk report, Firewall

Please Ignore That Sucking Sound…

It is merely the bandwidth being consumed by video (and photo) application usage. A somewhat random factoid posted on TechCrunch.com stated that every minute, 20 hours of video is uploaded to YouTube. Think about that. There are 1,440 minut...

May 22, 2009

By Matt Keil

Application usage & risk report, Firewall

Hulu Networks’ Battle Against External Proxies

This TechCrunch article outlines how Hulu Networks, the rapidly growing purveyor of streaming HD content, is taking some fairly extreme steps to make sure that their content is only accessed by users in the US....

May 12, 2009

By Matt Keil

Application usage & risk report, Firewall

Remote Desktop Control – Valuable Tool or Gaping Hole?

Today’s post will cover several interesting tidbits of data about remote control products. The first tidbit comes from the recently released Verizon Data Breach Report which paints a detailed picture of how cyb...

Apr 23, 2009

By Matt Keil

Application Advisory/Analysis, Application usage & risk report, Firewall, Threat Advisory/Analysis

Real Data Does Not Lie - Existing Security Controls Are Failing

On April 15th, we participated in a very successful webinar with Dark Reading entitled “Why Bad Security Breaches Keep H...

Apr 17, 2009

By Matt Keil

Application usage & risk report, Firewall

Security Loopholes in Google Docs – Is This Really a Surprise?

This TechCrunch article highlights three security holes in Google Docs, each of which varies in terms of severity. The most severe, according to the r...

Apr 03, 2009

By Matt Keil

Threat Advisories - Advisories

Marine One Blueprints found on P2P network

What's next -- the missile launch codes? While the record industry has targeted the universities and student populations in their battle against piracy, P2P use has enjoyed continued success in the business wor...

Mar 03, 2009

By Matt Keil

Firewall

Another Sign That The Application Landscape has Changed

This NetworkWorld article talks about the new LotusLive suite of collaborative applications from IBM. The cool thing about this article is that it is taking LotusNotes, one of the original "enterprise applicati...

Feb 23, 2009

By Matt Keil