Internet-based applications have grown in popularity over the last few years beyond using the browser to surf websites. Even with corporate usage policies, many companies are unable to curb and regulate the use of those applications. Recent findings show that 75% to 80% of corporate users ignore their company’s computer usage policies. To avoid significant risk, the Application Control feature provides a security technology that automates the discovery of popular Internet applications and allows Administrators to control them by using policies.

Deep Edge provides both visibility and control for almost 1000 application types running across any port, including applications using custom clients (for example, Skype, bitTorrent, P2P) or leveraging Web 2.0 technologies within the browser (for example, social networking, webmail, and streaming media sites).

The Predefined Group tab allows Administrators to view all the individual applications assigned to each default category.