With corporate security measures becoming increasingly more effective, often the only point of entry to a company’s network for a cyber criminal is via an employee.
“Research found that the negative impact of mobile devices on security was not only the result of the mobility of devices, but because of a number of assumptions IT departments make around the data they carry. In today’s mobile business environment, securing mobile devices has become a priority, but many IT departments neglect to think about the fact that the data carried on these devices isn’t contained as it would be in a centralised office environment. By working with the assumption that this is the same situation as when the data is in the data centre, IT becomes an unwitting accomplice of cyber criminals, according to Kaspersky’s research,” Myburgh points out.
“IDC data also shows that mobility is the number one factor driving new security spending, suggesting that more organisations are taking heed and beefing up security measures beyond their data centre perimeters.”
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