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August 31, 2007
Mobile Workers: Less Secure Because of Crappy Tools?
With a little thought, it seems like an obvious finding: Trend Micro says the more mobile an end user is, the more likely he is to send confidential information via instant messaging or Web mail.
Having suffered with truly atrocious remote tools, I can see why someone might consider forwarding all his work mail to Gmail while on the go. I haven't ever been offered anything from a company or organization that was nicer to use, and most of it has been far worse. And I have yet to work for anyone where IM was anything other than an ad hoc proposition ... employees just get accounts on public networks and find each other.
This particular article goes in a few directions. It reads like desktop-based workers are less generally aware of security issues than their mobile counterparts -- and in some cases behave in a riskier fashion -- but the security company that wrote the report singled mobile workers out for their use of non-company-provided tools to do company business.
An analyst in the article says "There are still many companies that only deploy AV to all machines. I spend much of my time talking to organizations about the multi-layered protections they need on their laptops, not just their network."
They should also be thinking about the quality of tools they provide.
Posted by mhall at 5:49 PM | Add Comment
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