If IT security professionals think that by securing Port 80 on their network — the firewall port through which Web traffic passes — that they are protected from Web application-related threats, they need to think again, according to a new report from a network security provider. The latest “Applications Usage and Risk Report” from Palo Alto Networks discloses that 35 percent of the Web applications and 51 percent of the Web traffic in enterprises does not traverse Port 80.
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