Best practices for BYOD security
Hormazd Romer · Computer Fraud & Security · 2014
IT revolutions tend to be double-edged swords. There are always benefits – increased computing power or mobility or ease-of-use or some exciting combination of features that might have seemed unimaginable just a few years earlier. Inevitably however, these new features and benefits also bring new difficulties and risks. For IT security teams, among the biggest risks of mobile devices brought into the workplace are security vulnerabilities. Attackers are quick to exploit design flaws or architectural weaknesses. Until the new technologies mature, security teams find themselves racing to patch vulnerabilities, educate users, fine-tune processes and deploy new security solutions. Hormazd Romer of Accellion offers six best practices for containing the threats posed by device proliferation.