Key findings from Palo Alto Networks Application Usage and Risk Report, December 2011 (Benelux). The slides provides insight into application activity that is based on network application assessments that show what is really happening on corporate networks.

1. Five Facts About Application
Usage on Enterprise Networks
in Benelux
(Belgium, Luxembourg, Netherlands)
Application Usage and Risk Report
December 2011

3. Average number of social networking
applications per organization?
A total of 62 different social networking applications were
found in 99% of the 115 participating organizations with an
average of 14 found on each network.

5. Which application is used more heavily?
Based on the percentage of social networking bandwidth
consumed in the 115 participating organizations, Twitter
consumed 28% while Hyves consumed 14%. Facebook at
29% is the most heavily used.

6. Facebook dominates. Active social networking application
(games, plugins, posting) usage is similar to global usage
patterns. Hyves, a popular local application consumes 14% of
the bandwidth.

8. Average number of browser-based
filesharing applications per organization?
A total of 52 different browser-based filesharing
applications were found in 96% of the 115 participating
organizations with an average of 10 in each.

9. Browser-based filesharing use cases: work or
entertainment. Both uses have a common set of business
and security risks that organizations must address.

11. The number of applications
using Port 80 (tcp/80) only?
The number of applications that ONLY use Port 80 is 228 or
26% of the 973 applications found in the participating
organizations.

13. Percentage of total bandwidth consumed
by applications not using tcp/80?
38% of the total bandwidth is being consumed by 370 (38%
of 973) applications that DO NOT USE port 80 at all. Ever.

14. 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.

16. Palo Alto Networks Application Usage
and Risk Report
www.paloaltonetworks.com/aur