The educational environment today is required to allow many applications supporting students and teachers in the classroom. Knowing what Internet applications your users participate in is critical in understanding the threat landscape..

Traditional port based firewalls are a thing of the past and offer little protection in today's threat environment. Knowing what apps pass through your network allows you go restructure your AUP and allow or block applications that present risk to your network. File Sharing applications like bittorrent, 100bao, allpeers, ants-p2p, present risk factors that may not be acceptable for K12.

NewNet 66 school districts can get reports showing what applications are hogging bandwidth or present risk to their networks.

Applications you need to be aware of.

• Audio Streaming Applications (http Port 80)
  94 K PDF
• Email Applications
  147 K PDF
• File Sharing Applications
  319 K PDF
• Gaming Applications (http Port 80)
  94 K PDF
• Photo Video Applications (http Port 80)
  160 K PDF
• Proxy Applications
  98 K PDF
• Remote Access Applications (http Port 80)
  86 K PDF
• Social Networking Applications (http Port 80)
  160 K PDF

Below is an 8 hour snap shot of the applications that traversed the NewNet 66 network. All NewNet 66 School Districts combined.

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G = Gigabytes | M = Millions | K = Thousands