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Security
The Insider Threat
Balancing the requirements of mobility versus security.
By Sacha Chahrvin, Managing Director, DeviceLock UK
The demands of the modern
workforce are changing rapidly. It’s
now a mobile business world and we
expect to conduct our work whenever
we want, wherever we want. Laptops
now outsell desktops, wireless is
outpacing wired and your average
smartphone can do almost anything –
even if you only use it to make calls
and as an occasional alarm clock on a
business trip.
Not so long ago - when businesses
were solely run out of an office - it
was easy for employers to keep track
of their staff and know that everything
from the stationary to their
confidential information was kept demands of modern working practice, rarely receive training on data policies.
under one roof. it is becoming increasingly difficult for There is a growing concern that IT
IT managers to adequately protect networks are becoming too vulnerable
Nowadays, staff can work wirelessly company information. The standard to threat from the very thing that they
and remotely, and as business anti-virus and network access control are trying to incorporate – the remote
becomes more global we have to is not enough nowadays. Mobility, in device. The proliferation of iPods,
adapt to the fact that employees all its weird and wonderful forms, smartphones, PDAs and USB sticks
expect to work with a myriad of jeopardises business security - and mean that most employees now have
different appliances and gadgets – it’s a growing problem. personal devices that can store huge
many of which are capable of storing amounts of data.
anything from customer databases to Recent research1 has revealed that
family albums. UK companies trail behind those in These devices are virtually impossible
Germany and the US in the to trace and can be connected to a
The trouble with all this mobility is that implementation of policies to prevent laptop or PC with ease. Incidents of
it’s not secure, data seems to fly data leakage. It also showed that UK employee data theft is constantly
through the air between devices – it’s end users are less likely to know what growing: 1.6 million personal details
no longer tangible. Because of the type of information is confidential and were stolen from
Monster.com,
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