Fortinet - Application Security Control
The corporate application landscape is steadily expanding. Many factors have combined to fuel this growth: the ubiquity of the Internet and associated protocols, the ongoing transition of enterprise applications to web platforms, and the steady increase in easily installed web 2.0 and personal applications (e.g., web mail, IM, Facebook, and file sharing). One result of this expansion is the increasing potential application-borne threats have to evade security countermeasures. Another is to require that IT staff stay vigilant to productivity, bandwidth, and liability and compliance issues.