While there is a lower class, I am in it, while there is a criminal element, I am of it, and while there is a soul in prison, I am not free.– Eugene V. Debs
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For years enterprises have been trying to control peer-to-peer (P2P) technologies inside their networks, and for good reason. The efficiency with which P2P technology move large files have made P2P networks key enablers of the Internet grey market by acting as the distribution mechanism of choice for pirated movies, music or applications. Aside from P2P being a source for pirated content, they are also a significant enabler of malware as both an infection vector and a command-and-control (C2) channel. These security risks have made controlling P2P traffic a priority for many security teams.
One approach to controlling the grey market usage of P2P would be to provide an alternative means for moving large files such as web-based file transfer applications YouSendIt!, Dropbox or Box.net. These are just a few of many “digital locker” alternatives and their use is becoming so common that one might assume that P2P is on the decline.
Interestingly, data from Palo Alto Networks Application Usage and Risk Report issued today shows that the opposite is true: The use of P2P is surging in the enterprise and web-based file transfer is staying relatively flat. In terms of bandwidth consumed, P2P saw a seven-fold increase compared to the previous report (from 2% to 14%), and it continues to dwarf web-based file transfer applications. In fact, BitTorrent alone accounted for 58 times more bandwidth than Dropbox, RapidShare, Box.net and the other 68 variants combined. What makes these reports particularly interesting is they are based on analysis of real traffic from enterprise networks (petabytes of traffic from more than 2,000 different organizations in this version of the report). So the obvious question is what makes P2P so tenacious in the enterprise despite alternatives and efforts to control it?
Source: threatpost.com
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