Cybersecurity is an increasing concern for companies. Last April, the UK Department for Business, Innovation & Skills (BIS) published the 2014 information security breaches survey: technical report. The report comprises the findings from two online questionnaires completed by 1,125 respondents, and contains a number of important cyber-attack statistics for both large organisations and small businesses.
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UK Information Commissioner’s Office Releases ‘Bring Your Own Device’ Guidance
By Cynthia O’Donoghue on
The UK Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) published guidance on ‘bring your own device’ (BYOD), given the tremendous increase in employees both connecting to, and seeking to be able to use their personal devices to connect to, their employers’ systems. The ICO reported that 47% of employees now use personal smartphones, laptops or tablets for work,…
Implementing a BYOD Policy? Don’t Forget About the Risks
By John Chapas on
Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) is an escalating trend by which employees are using their own portable computing devices, including tablets and smart phones, to access their employer’s system and data. Employers are faced with the challenging question of whether they should permit BYOD or only permit employees to access their system and data through…
NIST Releases Draft Policy of Mobile Security Guidelines, Recommends Centralized Mobile Device Management
This post was written by Amy S. Mushahwar.
On July 11, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (“NIST”) released Guidelines for Managing and Securing Mobile Devices in The Enterprise, its draft policy for securing mobile devices that will supplement its already-published general security recommendations for any IT technology. In these draft Guidelines, which…