Intelligent CISO Issue 07 | Page 60

Up to 80% of cookies stored in WebCaches are from third parties and are used for targeted advertising and tracking user behaviour. 60 Francesco Giarletta, Founder and Director at Avanite Limited, said: “Web data poses a very real problem to organisations. It’s largely invisible to users and IT teams, but it’s a significant drain on IT resources – wasting time, costing money and endangering sensitive information. “Avanite WebData Control is the only software available today which has been designed specifically to address these issues, reducing the negative impact of browsing on business. It enables organisations to get control of the problem. After using WebData Control, our customers reduced logon times by over 80% and the number of cookies in a typical WebCache from typically 5,000 or more to just a few hundred.” Avanite offers a free WebData Data Analysis tool to gain visibility of the web browser data that resides in their networks and the issues it is creating. The tool supports all common Windows browsers and displays the number of known advertising and tracking cookies found on the system. u Issue 07 | www.intelligentciso.com