Application Usage
The Application Usage Dashboard gives you visibility
into the applications in use in your network, and helps you to focus
in on controlling unsanctioned and risky applications.
Know
the security challenges associated with the applications traversing
your network. Application Usage findings can help you to refine
your security policy to control unsanctioned and risky applications.
The
sanctioned
apps
you see in this dashboard are apps with the sanctioned
tag; go to to
see your sanctioned apps or to tag apps as sanctioned. Application
Usage data includes:
- An overview of the applications on your network, including risk, sanction status, bandwidth consumed, and the top users of these applications.
- Most used application types
- Applications with the most data transfer
- The top application types on your network
- The most heavily used applications on your network
- The users with the most applications
- The users with the most data transfer
If an
app is a container app, then the displayed statistics are a roll-up
of all the applications in the container. For example, gmail is
a container app (there is no app-id for gmail). It groups applications
such as gmail-posting, gmail-downloading, gmail-uploading, and so
forth. The risk score set for this container app is the highest
risk score found for the contained applications. All other metrics
are calculated by summing the values found for the contained applications.
Share, Download, and Schedule Reports for
a Dashboard
For all dashboards, you can download, share, and schedule
reports covering the data a dashboard displays. Find these
icons in the top right of the dashboard:
Tag Sanctioned Apps
To monitor the activity of apps on your network
in your Application Usage dashboard, you must identify whether they
are sanctioned or unsanctioned.
- Go to manage your configuration and select .
- Click the applicationNameto edit an application and selectEditin the Tag section.
- SelectSanctionedfrom theTagsdrop-down.You must use the predefinedSanctionedtag. If you use any other tag to indicate that you sanctioned an application, the tag won’t be recognized and the report will be inaccurate.
- ClickOKandCloseto exit all open dialogs.
