With BYOD, data breaches just waiting to happen
Smartphone insecurity means healthcare patient information, for one, remains at high risk, studies find
Taylor Armerding | 12 Dec | Read more
Smartphone insecurity means healthcare patient information, for one, remains at high risk, studies find
Taylor Armerding | 12 Dec | Read more
Online and offline, in IT departments and across organizations, the bring your own device (BYOD) debate is raging.
Ernesto China, marketing manager, Midsize Business Solutions, NetApp | 04 Dec | Read more
CIOs often complain that the bring-your-own-device (BYOD) movement is undermining their ability to keep their infrastructure and data secure. Every employee who comes to work with his or her smartphone or tablet and pulls up sales reports, help tickets and other corporate data creates a small hole in the armor companies have spent billions to build. Over time, the argument goes, the holes become a dangerous sieve.
Rachel Delacour, co-founder and CEO of BIME | 19 Nov | Read more
Researchers from the Georgia Tech Information Security Center today released their official 2013 cyberthreats forecast, detailing what they say will be the most serious computer security issues in the coming year.
The younger IT workforce is bringing major change to organizations -- whether those organizations like it or not.
George V. Hulme | 06 Nov | Read more
A survey of 650 information and security professionals about how the "bring your own device" (BYOD) trend is impacting their organizations finds one-quarter of them forbid use of personally owned devices such as smartphones and tablets on the network. However, the majority that do often lack meaningful policies or security controls related to these devices.
Ellen Messmer | 25 Oct | Read more
Citing security issues, IT leaders at Department of Defense and National Security Agency warn that BYOD policies and public clouds are a long way from taking hold in environments rife with classified information.
Kenneth Corbin | 23 Oct | Read more
Despite an explosion in the number of employees using personal smartphones and tablets to access company information, industry analysts are warning that most companies are still woefully under prepared to secure those devices and cope with the potential for data leakage.
David Braue | 23 Oct | Read more
Don't fear the "bring your own device" (BYOD) trend -- take a chance and find out if it works in your organization, say IT managers in the financial industry that let employees make use of their personal smartphones and tablets for work.
Ellen Messmer | 22 Oct | Read more
End users everywhere are demanding that IT executives figure out how to let them bring their own smartphones and laptops to work. Yet even as consumerisation tops lists of IT priorities for 2012, vendors are taking new approaches to security as a majority of CIOs worry that the BYO pendulum has swung too far and will, through the normalisation of off-net mobility, create new business risks due to unaddressed shortcomings in management and security strategies.
David Braue | 19 Dec | Read more