More occupation internet traffic goes to Facebook than to any other internet location, according to analysis by managed security firm Network Box.

Analysis of 13 billion URLs used means of businesses in the first quarter of 2010 shows that 6.8 through cent of all business internet traffic goes to Facebook – some per cent up on the last quarter of 2009.

The calculus also shows that 10 per cent of all corporate bandwidth – additional than anything else – is taken up running YouTube videos, each increase of two per cent on the last quarter of 2009.

However, Windows Update is none slouch when it comes to chewing up bandwidth, accounting for 3.3 by means of cent of corporate use in Q1 2010.

The top five tissue sites visited by businesses in Q1 2010 were:

Facebook – 6.8 by means of cent of traffic

Google – 3.4 per cent

Yimg Yahoo’s representation of an object server – 2.8 per cent

Yahoo – 2.4 for cent

Doubleclick – 1.

7 per cent

The top five bandwidth hoggers were:

YouTube – 10 by cent of bandwidth used

Facebook – 4.5 per cent

Windows Update – 3.3 for cent

Yimg – 2.7 per cent

Google – 2.5 by means of cent

In April the company surveyed 250 IT managers about their biggest safeguard concerns over the coming year and the top answer was employees using applications put social networks while at work; 43 per cent of respondents related this is a major concern.

The figures show that IT managers are up~ to be concerned about the amount of social network use at be in action,” says Simon Heron, internet security analyst at Network Box.

“There are pair real concerns here first that employees will be downloading applications from familiar networks and putting security at risk; and second the amount of in~d bandwidth that appears to be being used for non-corporate nimbleness.