Welcome to 2012, aka the pivotal year for BYO (bring your own personal mobile devices to work).
Posted by Courion Corporation on Tue, Dec 27, 2011
According to CSO.com’s December 19th article, “Expect conflict in 2012 as consumerisation raises security alarm bells for CIOs, ” the coming year will be a time of reckoning. Enterprises need to formally take a look at the very real risks arising from employees bringing personal mobile devices to work.
With more and more users bringing laptops and smartphones to work, CIOs are losing sleep worrying about how to address the business and security risks related to the burgeoning phenomena in today’s mobile, always-on, cloud based business environment, especially outside the corporate firewall.
Though it’s no surprise there isn’t a one-size-fits-all answer on how to deal with this problem, what is surprising is that a large number of enterprise CIOs and IT decision makers don’t have a policy governing use of personal mobile devices. To boot, they’re not too sure if the right people have the right access to the right information when users connect via the cloud, mobile devices or laptops.
In a recent Courion survey about personal mobile devices connecting to the corporate network, close to 1000 IT decision-makers at large enterprises expressed confidence they could ensure appropriate user access to resources on-premise, but were much less confident when users connect via the cloud, or on mobile devices or laptops.
While enterprises realize they need a comprehensive access risk management strategy, they’re not ready to jump on the bandwagon. What are they waiting for? To see their name as another headline screaming “$10B Data Breach Discovered at “Your Company Name Here.” Or will those CIOs just be too tired to notice?