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Palo Alto Networks releases an Application Usage and Risk Report report twice a year that summarizes the data they collect from traffic assessments (I’m pretty sure this means evaluation units). The Fall 09 report includes data from more than 200 organizations.

Some specific findings from the research include:

• Twitter session use grew more than 250 percent from the Spring 2009 edition of the Application Usage and Risk Report, published in April.
• Facebook use increased 192 percent while Facebook Chat (released in April 2008) was the fourth most commonly detected chat application, ahead of Yahoo! IM and AIM.
• SharePoint collaboration is ubiquitous – bandwidth consumed by SharePoint, specifically the documents component, increased 17-fold from the previous report in April.
• Blogging and wiki editing increased by a factor of 39, while total bandwidth consumed increased by a factor of 48.

Download the Application Usage and Risk Report

More Palo Alto Networks Resources

• Block or Not Whitepaper
• Firewall 2.0 Blog
• Fix the Firewall Whitepaper
• Gartner Research Note: Next Generation Firewalls
• Palo Alto Networks Datasheets
• Palo Alto Networks Product Demos
• Palo Alto Networks Tech Briefs
• Palo Alto Networks Whitepapers