{"id":1922,"date":"2007-08-21T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-08-21T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/2007\/08\/21\/mobile-workers-think-security-is-its-job-study-reveals\/"},"modified":"2021-12-30T11:40:18","modified_gmt":"2021-12-30T11:40:18","slug":"mobile-workers-think-security-is-its-job-study-reveals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/2007\/08\/21\/mobile-workers-think-security-is-its-job-study-reveals\/","title":{"rendered":"Mobile Workers Think Security Is IT&#8217;s Job, Study Reveals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Workers on the go are opening suspicious e-mails and hijacking neighbors&#8217; wireless connections, but 73% put the security responsibility on the IT department.  Forty-four percent of mobile users questioned in a survey this spring said they open e-mails and attachments from unknown or even suspicious senders.  According to the study, 73% of mobile users said they are not always aware of security threats and best practices when working on the go.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The study also showed that one-third of mobile users access unauthorized wireless connections, whether they&#8217;re hijacking a neighbors&#8217; wireless connection or using unsecured hotspots at a coffee shop or in a public park.<\/p>\n<p>Although many said they are &#8220;sometimes&#8221; aware, another 28% admitted they &#8220;hardly ever&#8221; consider security risks and proper behavior.<\/p>\n<p>Some even said they &#8220;never&#8221; consider safety best practices and didn&#8217;t know they needed to be aware of security risks.<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/www.informationweek.com\/news\/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=201801429<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-statistics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1922","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1922"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1922\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4409,"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1922\/revisions\/4409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}