BitGlass, a Cloud Access Security Broker services (CASB) provider, has reported a recent survey among 400 IT professionals, regarding Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) policies and their impact on the organization information security.
The outcomes, are - how shall we say it ? - very encouraging if you are a hacker. Less so, if you wish for better information security standards around your virtual neighborhood.
Among the eye-catching findings:
- 85% of enterprises allow data access from personal devices for employees, partners, customers, contractors and even suppliers
- Only 30% of firms are confident that they are properly defending against malware on personal and mobile devices.
- 43% of organizations are not able to determine whether the personal devices that are accessing corporate data have actually downloaded malware.
- Only 56% of companies use protections such as mobile device management tools.
- As little as 15% of organizations reported that they do not enable BYOD for any users.
Once again, InfoSec news can be summed with the sad understanding that IT isn't becoming more secure each day. Quite the contrary.
