Security Bites Podcast: What's on your network?

By CNET News.com Staff

Published: April 18, 2008 3:47 PM PDT

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It may be that what you don't know won't hurt you, but in the case of enterprise networks, that simply isn't true. In a report (registration required), based on traffic from 350,000 users in 20 organizations, Palo Alto Networks found that 90 percent of the sites they looked at had peer-to-peer applications such as eMule and BitTorrent on individual desktops, while Web video and streaming content was present on 95 to 100 percent of the desktops, potentially draining network bandwidth.

This week, CNET's Robert Vamosi talks with Chris King, director of marketing for Palo Alto Networks, who fills in the details behind the report.

Palo Alto Networks also has an Applipedia where you can look up more than 500 desktop applications and learn what ports are used, if any malware's been associated with it, and how else it might otherwise affect your company.