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Organizations are failing to respond to the culture of employees using their own mobile devices for work and are opening up their systems to security risks. These are the preliminary findings of a survey by PwC and Infosecurity Europe.
Some 75% of large organisations (and 61% of small businesses) allow staff to use smart phones and tablets to connect to their corporate systems and yet only 39% (24% of small businesses) apply data encryption on the devices.
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Spotlight covers the intersections of technology and education, going behind the research to show how digital media is used in and out of classrooms to expand learning.
“When I talk to colleagues in Finland, they say, how do you filter?” said Jim Klein, director of Information Services and Technology at the Saugus Union School District in Southern California.
“They say, our kids’ filters are in their heads.
You do this by giving them a safe environment to educate themselves instead of sticking your head in the sand and pretending these technologies don’t exist.”
Dodie Ellen Ballard's curator insight,
March 13, 2013 2:44 AM
While this seems to be a struggle for some educational institutions, the policies not only have to be re-written, but the re-write must embrace and not negate the use of technology.
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Employees are increasingly using (and demanding to use) their personal devices to store and process their employer's data, and connect to their network...
Even if cost-savings is not the goal, most companies believe that processing of company data on employee personal devices is inevitable and unavoidable. Unfortunately, BYOD raises significant data security and privacy concerns, which can lead to potential legal and liability risk.
Many companies are having to play catch-up to control these risks.
This blogpost identifies and explores some of the key privacy and security legal concerns associated with BYOD, including “reasonable” BYOD security, BYOD privacy implications, and security and privacy issues related to BYOD incident response and investigations.
Take the example of company-owned laptop issued to an employee. When it comes to security, the company can:
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The Security, Privacy and Legal Implications of BYOD
Unfortunately, BYOD raises significant data security and privacy concerns, which can lead to potential legal and liability risk. Many companies are having to play catch-up to control these risks.
===> This blogpost identifies and explores some of the key privacy and security legal concerns associated with BYOD, including “reasonable” BYOD security, BYOD privacy implications, and security and privacy issues related to BYOD incident response and investigations. <===
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A BYOD policy can eliminate a lot of the problems associated with bring your own device programs. Learn best practices for creating a BYOD policy.
BYOD isn’t a synonym for “free for all.” Once an organization decides to let employees use their own mobile devices and PCs for work, it must put a BYOD policy in place to control this usage.
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Ignorance, as those in IT security know, is not bliss.
And, two new studies when viewed together show that consumer ignorance of the consequences of their actions coupled with enterprises' unawareness of their computing environment equal unacceptable risk.
===> Many organizations unduly place themselves at risk by allowing access to their computers by mobile devices used by employees who download apps without understanding their consequences. That doesn't seems like a smart information risk management policy; actually, it doesn't seem like a policy at all. <===
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Antiviren-Software auf dem PC ist heute so selbstverständlich wie das Schloss an der Haustür – nur bei Smartphones nicht. Wir zeigen, wie Sie Handy-Schädlinge abwehren.
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