{"id":546,"date":"2007-08-14T00:41:06","date_gmt":"2007-08-14T08:41:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.paloaltonetworks.com\/wp2\/2007\/08\/create-a-conscious-policy-around-web-based-file-sharing\/"},"modified":"2010-03-24T07:38:12","modified_gmt":"2010-03-24T15:38:12","slug":"create-a-conscious-policy-around-web-based-file-sharing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www2.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/2007\/08\/create-a-conscious-policy-around-web-based-file-sharing\/","title":{"rendered":"Create a Conscious Policy Around Web-based File Sharing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ALERT &ndash; Think your users don't get around email attachment restrictions? Think again. Attachment limitations, while possibly useful for managing resource utilization on an over-burdened mail server, encourage user creativity. In addition, <a href=\"http:\/\/skydrive.live.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow,noopener\" >Microsoft<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/mac.com\" rel=\"nofollow,noopener\" >Apple<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/accounts\/ManageStorage\" rel=\"nofollow,noopener\" >Google<\/a> have jumped into the pool of web-based file-storage\/sharing applications. <\/p>\n<p>The success of these online applications is driven by users looking for easy ways to get files to partners, customers, vendors, etc. When pushed with a deadline, users won't bother trying to figure out the access information for the corporate FTP server, they will simply jump to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.paloaltonetworks.com\/arc\/index.php?option=com_applipedia&task=1&appid=520&Itemid=34\">box.net<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.paloaltonetworks.com\/arc\/index.php?option=com_applipedia&task=1&appid=492&Itemid=34\">MegaUpload<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.paloaltonetworks.com\/arc\/index.php?option=com_applipedia&task=1&appid=753&Itemid=34\">DropBoks<\/a>, or one of many other services, upload the file and grab a URL to send to the desired recipient. Quick, painless, and reliable &ndash; unlike trying to get a 10 MB zip file through the corporate attachment limitations or getting an FTP transfer setup &ndash; these service will continue to flourish. With App Update 24, a dozen of these services are already supported, with more on the way. Watch the file-sharing category of apps within ACC to understand how these services are being used in your network.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ALERT &ndash; Think your users don't get around email attachment restrictions? Think again. Attachment limitations, while possibly useful for managing resource utilization on an over-burdened mail server, encourage user creativity. In addition, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[40],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-firewall","tag-file-sharing"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=546"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www2.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":986,"href":"https:\/\/www2.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546\/revisions\/986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=546"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}