Your Web 2.0 applications is a security threat

In the world of IT, this poses a threat to security: Your password is insecure, unexpected e-mail attachments, Web surfers careless move to a malicious URL or unauthorized software installed on your computer. Today's I.T. There are many tools for most of these threats, ranging from firewalls and spam filters to deal with malicious software and application controls. Now they will soon be something more: a new application management engine, which is specifically after the on and off the applications and Web 2.0 social networking widget.

Introducing the ACE: Tool to close Web 2.0
The company called FaceTime Communications, based in Belmont, California, recently introduced its new inspection and classification technology called "ACE", which simply means the application of motor control. This technology is patented security network is capable of scanning and detection of more than 1400 Web 2.0 applications, and more than 50000 social networking widgets distributed sites such as Facebook, MySpace and Orkut.

Search rogue applications on the network, there is nothing new for him, but interestingly, some of FaceTime ACE technology is its focus on search technology, which often fly under the radar of IT: Web-based applications.
The danger of Web 2.0 Over the Firewall

As we noted earlier, this inability to adapt to the changing needs of their users, are now younger and more digitally savvy than ever before, led to a lot of self-providing easy-to-use applications found on the Internet. These funds could include anything from Facebook groups in autonomous applications like SharePoint-Lite team found on the sites Google.

Of course, when users are becoming their own IT department, they unknowingly introducing risks previously hardened network infrastructure. Just because a web application is very easy to work, not to make it safe for business use. As users to upload and share files via the sensitivity of these unapproved backchannels or business-related calls in an Internet chat chat rooms, they can be not only means that their company's data at risk, they also may be different to break the enforcement of laws as well.

The difficulty of monitoring the web-applications in the enterprise
To this end, the challenge is keeping pace with the flurry of new Web applications, there and close those that pose a threat. An independent study commissioned by FaceTime Communications, 62% of respondents said that there were eight or more Internet applications that are installed on their company network - 300% more than in the first study conducted in 2005. Furthermore, respondents indicated that about one-third of their users downloaded applications they would like to use - regardless of company policy. These applications are a combination of applications for business and those used for personal purposes.

I.T. traditionally struggled to close many of today's Web-based applications because they are not strictly based on the browser. Knowing that their acceptance rate depends on for the set-back to the company board, many of the applications, make sure that they can not be blocked by URL signature. Applications can also masquerade as a HTTP, FTP, SMTP, and Telnet traffic while exhibiting evasive techniques that help them penetrate the company's firewall and to avoid detection of the current crop Unified threat management systems.

What FaceTime in ACE, while more than 1400 web-based applications can be determined, and even more social networking widgets can be protected, too. These applications can be opened and closed, regardless of port, protocol, or evasion techniques they use. In addition, software developers ACE Kit (SDK) enables third-party solution providers the opportunity to expand their victims, to help its customers manage IM, peer-to-peer file sharing, social networking, Web 2.0, voice-over - IP, anonymizers, IPTV, multimedia, games, virtual worlds, and Unified Communications.
What does this mean for the enterprise 2.0

If the FaceTime ACE or other similar technologies are the foundation of IT tools in an explosion in Web 2.0 for business applications, and this trend is typically referred to as Enterprise 2.0, can be quite a blow. The only enterprise 2.0 applications that will be successful, given that the scenario will be those who have worked with IT - Administrators from the outset to ensure their safety. Application depends on a number of companies breaking the rules for users, however, will not be lucky. Maybe in a hidden, may not have been a great business model after all.

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