Internet Usage and Network Security Report 2013

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Nevales Networks released Internet usage and network security report for 2013. The information was consolidated from its existing customers which largely included branch offices of enterprises and some SMBs from verticals including retail, healthcare, finance and pharmaceutical, IT enabled services etc.

Sunija Rishi, Co-Founder & VP – Corporate Development, Nevales Networks says, “Customer analytics help in bridging the gap between the offerings and the customers’ real needs. It reveals the hidden insights in your customer data and following it, the service provider can go a step ahead to create personalized experiences that win more business while bringing down costs and increasing customer fidelity. With evolving customer needs, we have been collecting and analyzing data of our customers and we strive to know their needs much before they can explore those themselves.”


Analyzing the deployed Nevales units, here is an insight into the deployment statistics; Out of units deployed :
  • 50% are on 3rd Generation Cloud platform
  • On average there are 64 users behind every device
  • Number of logins per day are approx 10K
  • 515M unencrypted requests logged per month to 1.11 M unique domains
  • 15k websites constitute to 95% of the websites accessed by users

Here are some figures and key trends around Internet usage:
  • Increased usage of wireless Internet: 25% of devices using dongles.
  • Decrease in viruses and spam constituting to better security of the mail servers. 35% use Antivirus and 20% use Antispam on email.
  • Combination of protective and enabling security measures: 30% use VPN and 85% devices use some kind of URL blocking.

The key features used include firewall, VPN, content filtering followed by dual ISP load balancing and failover. Approx. 25% have enabled authentication on their device. Antivirus and antispam are not the most popular features in the checklist of the organizations when it comes to securing networks, but there is strong inclination for features which help the employers in structuring the usage of Internet i.e. corporate security policy for blocking unauthorized access, encrypted methods for communications etc.

Further, the top websites by different parameters are:

Top Websites by number of hit counts (Consolidated):
1. Google search   
2. News Site
3. Jobs Site           
4. Linkedin            
5. Facebook           

Top Websites by number of unique users accessing:
1. Google search   
2. Facebook           
3. Twitter                
4. Youtube            

Top Websites by most time spent:
1. Dropbox 
2. Job Sites
3. Gmail
4. Travel Sites         

Top blocked sites:
1. twitter.com
2. youtube.com
3. linkedin.com
4. facebook.com

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