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September 27, 2005 | Comments: (0)

A pulse on peer-to-peer

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Does peer-to-peer networking pose security problems, or not?

P2P is seen as a security risk by more than half of companies, according to a survey by Sage Research.

While conducting the research for its Sage Market Pulse the company, in fact, found that 51 percent of respondents consider P2P a 'major' security threat.

Looking to get a handle on security, 44 percent of those surveyed plan to rate-limit use of P2P traffic through deep-packet inspection. That's one way of alleviating some security issues that those 43 percent working to deliver commercial services via P2P just might embrace.

Additionally, 39 percent of respondents plan to facilitate P2P traffic on their networks by caching frequently accessed content.

But back to that first statistic: If 51 percent of companies somewhat or strongly agree that P2P is a major security threat, what about the other 49 percent?

Is IT really split down the middle on whether peer-to-peer has security issues?

Posted by Tom Sullivan on September 27, 2005 05:44 AM

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