BANGALORE: Nevales Networks, an innovator that securely connects branch offices, work groups, and remote workspaces, today released the key network security trends report for the first quarter of the year 2014. The report is the outcome of data analysis of Nevales customers and reveals interesting statistics around the popular network security trends among users.

Nidhi Shrivastava, Director - Business Development at Nevales Networks, says, "Every time we analyze the network security trends among our customers, we get deeper insights on their preferences and requirements. It equips us in delivering that is anticipated and pertinent. As per our older infographics from last year, we tracked customers not using user authentication feature and recommended them to use the added security layer. The result is a remarkable increase in the number of customers using it. Last year it was 25% of the total users, while now 80% of the customers have enabled authentication. We'll continue adding new enhancements based upon the customer analytics."

Here is an insight into the deployment statistics after analyzing the deployed Nevales units:

• 60% are on 3rd generation cloud platform.
• Number of logins per day increased by 10% compared to the last year.
• 510M unencrypted requests logged per month to 1M unique domains.

The popular Nevales features used among customers are firewall, content filtering and VPN. The popularity of user authentication feature has gone up drastically compared to last year, almost 80% customers are now using it. 

Key trends we observe for network security:

• Practice of URL blocking still on the rise. 
• Major raise in usage of user authentication feature, showing customers inclination towards added security layers. 
• Increase in usage of wireless Internet/dongles. 

A remarkable adoption is witnessed in the retail space. A typical use case is of Internet connected distributed retail stores for:

• Accessing private cloud applications through VPN at HQ.
• Centralized management of IT for multiple branch offices remotely.
• Secure connectivity through dongle for remote location with poor connectivity.  

Further, for the top websites by different parameters like number of hit counts, number of unique users accessing, blocked sites and more on Q1 infographics, please visit

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About Nevales Networks Inc.

Nevales Networks manages security, connectivity and enables cloud applications for businesses with multiple branch offices and remote locations.

Nevales' cloud based managed security platform is a combination of an on-premise security gateway device and cloud services. The Nevales Security Gateway integrates several crucial security and connectivity features in a single management platform and is available on a subscription model. Currently, Nevales has customers from across verticals like financial services, manufacturing, healthcare, automobile dealerships, hospitality, engineering and IT/IT enabled services to name a few.

For more information, please visit www.nevales.com.

Media Contact: Nidhi Shrivastava, nidhi.shrivastava@nevales.com, +91-7676918880, Director - Business Development, Nevales Networks