posted by: Matt on May 12, 2011 2:55 PM
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tagged: application control, application usage & risk report, Firewall
Hiding in Plain Sight: 41% of the Applications; 36% of the Bandwidth
The 7th Edition of the Palo Alto Networks Application Usage and Risk Report provides insight into application activity that is based on 1,253 application assessments that show what is really happening on the network.
Each of the previous six reports have uncovered interesting data points and this version is no different. The most interesting data point we came upon was the [high] number of applications that can use SSL and port hopping as a means of hiding in plain sight. An early mention by Andy Greenberg in Forbes indicates he too found this data point interesting.
posted by: Srinivas Avasarala on December 10, 2010 1:50 PM
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tagged: App-ID, application control, application usage & risk report, FASP
What’s APPening with FASP
A big shortcoming of traditional file transfer protocols such as FTP or HTTP has been the impact on throughput that results from TCP’s aggressive congestion control mechanism; especially when transferring large data files over wide area networks. Aspera’s FASP is an application layer protocol that is among the many alternatives that have been designed to address this issue. It uses UDP instead of TCP as the underlying transport layer and leverages the fact that bulk file transfer does not require in-order delivery of byte streams. …Continue reading
posted by: Matt on November 8, 2010 11:18 AM
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tagged: application control, application usage & risk report
Contrary to Popular Opinion, Webmail is Not Dead!
The rapid expansion of social networking, video chat and micro-blogging has led to some speculation that webmail is dead or dying. Like Mark Twain famously said, “the report of my death was an exaggeration,” the same holds true for the claimed death of webmail.
