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I don't think P2P applications have a significant security risk. Specifically, I don't think the security industry at large considers P2P to be inherently risky. If you trust Spotify like you trust say, Google Chrome, or Microsoft Outlook, or any of the other apps you run on your machine, the fact that one or more of them uses P2P in no way further raises your risk profile.
The only security risk it needs to be is to blind us from other security risks. That can be accomplished by its behavior in the network monitoring tool (many malware applications behave very similarly in a p2p fashion) or by putting us at risk of running over the amount of traffic we're licensed for in any of our tools. We're not in the business of buying licenses to support a program we explicitly disallow, so inste…
I do get what you're saying about P2P filling up your network monitoring logs, though I would argue that the monitoring software might not be properly configured if such is the case. I don't know all that much about network monitoring tools though, so I don't know the specifics. I do know that it's possible to run a secure network and have P2P clients on that network, however.