A Gartner survey has found that one in four employees who bring their own smartphones and tablets to work suffered a security issue in the past year - and spent an hour per day on their BYOD devices.
The biggest IT security risk to businesses is the use of smartphones in the workplace, a report based on the habits of 5,000 users worldwide has found.
Employers are failing to face up to the threats posed by employees who use their own mobile devices at work - 40% of companies do not consider the 'bring your own device' (BYOD) trend even to be on their agenda, according to a survey of IT workers.
Iron Mountain claims that up to two-thirds of employees work from home in Europe at least part of the time - but a mere 18% of firms offer guidance on how to protect information outside the office.
A BYOD dissonance between economic imperative and loss of central control? Discontented staff susceptible to social engineering? David Harley reflects on aspects of Business Reimagined, a new book by Dave Coplin, chief envisioning officer at Microsoft UK, interivewed by Ross McGuinness in Metro.
The slides for many of the presentations by ESET researchers at VB 2012 can now be found on the Virus Bulletin conference web pages.
Does the enterprise still have a choice about sharing information?
The phenomenon of organizations allowing or encouraging their employees to use their own computing devices for work–known as Bring Your Own Device, or BYOD–is now widespread in many countries, bringing with it some serious risks to company networks and data. As we first reported here on the blog a few weeks ago, ESET commissioned a
While our recent post on BYOD focuses on the prevalence and/or risk of inadequately trained staff potentially creating problems for the core IT infrastructure using their own personal devices for work, it seems others here at RSA are concerned with preventing the exact same thing, but from a different angle. I attended one “lighting round”
Employee use of personally-owned computing devices for work-related purposes–known as Bring Your Own Device or BYOD–is not a new trend and security professionals have been concerned about it for some time, but there is a widely held view that the trend has been transformed of late. Why? Waves of mobile digital devices flooding into the
