The rise of mobile working and BYOD means that accessing corporate data from multiple devices is now the norm for many employees. What’s surprising is the lack of security provisions and user training to protect information beyond the physical premises of the organisation.
Mobile data security has, so far, been startlingly low on the priority list of businesses, yet this will have to change if mobile is not to be the catalyst for major data loss in the future.
Who is protecting the President?
Safeguarding the world’s most powerful politician is a powerful analogy for anyone tasked with protecting data assets. The President becomes much more effective as he moves around, engaging with citizens and other nations – but any security provisions must move with him. Similarly, you should not let your data assets flow freely via mobile devices without a security policy to protect them from accidental loss or malicious misuse. Yet this is happening within many organisations.
