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<\/p>\nCan you see all your network traffic? If not, you’re not alone.<\/p>\n
In a vendor-agnostic survey of 3,100 IT managers across 12 countries, commissioned by Sophos, a huge 96% acknowledged that they lack visibility into their network traffic.<\/p>\n
Diving deeper into the scale of the issue, it was also revealed that just under half (43%) of all network traffic cannot be identified by the firewall. Instead it falls into a generic bucket such as uncategorized, unknown, unclassified, insufficient data, HTTP, HTTPS, SSL, UDP, TCP, internet, web browsing, etc.<\/p>\n
Unsurprisingly, this bandwidth blindness leads to multiple areas of concern, with security topping the list:<\/p>\n
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The scale of this issue becomes fully apparent when you learn that better threat visibility<\/strong> is now the single biggest improvement IT managers want from their firewall, knocking ‘better security’ from the top spot.<\/p>\n Unidentified traffic is an eclectic mix. Some is custom apps that the organization has invested in but whose signatures are not recognized.<\/p>\n Others are potentially unwanted apps (PUAs) that are not required by the organization and which try to fly under the radar. Social messaging apps often fall into this category.<\/p>\n And then there are the malicious apps which bring malware into your organization.<\/p>\n If you can\u2019t see it, you can\u2019t control it. Without visibility into your network traffic you can\u2019t control who and what is using your bandwidth. You can\u2019t prioritize the custom apps, limit the non-essential apps or block the malicious apps.<\/p>\n The solution to bandwidth blindness is to enable your endpoint protection and firewall to work together. Even if the firewall can\u2019t identify the app, the endpoint protection can; by working together they can share and act on this information.<\/p>\nWhat\u2019s hiding in your traffic?<\/h3>\n
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