A new report from Palo Alto Networks states that employee use of webmail poses a far greater security risk than use of social networks.

"According to Palo Alto Networks, personal webmail (such as Gmail, Hotmail, and Yahoo Mail), instant messaging, and peer-to-peer and browser-based file-sharing apps were used in 96 percent of the enterprises, and those apps made up nearly one-fourth of all bandwidth," writes DarkReading's Kelly Jackson Higgins.

"The bad news is that most of these apps are unmonitored and not controlled by the enterprise, which leaves the organization open to attack or data leakage, the report says," Higgins writes.

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