You’ve probably heard about businesses adopting “Bring Your Own Device” (BYOD) policies that allow employees to bring their own mobile devices (smartphones, tablets, etc.) to the workplace for use with business systems. Businesses benefit by saving money on purchasing devices and employees benefit by not being required to carry multiple devices. Of course, there are always risks. We even wrote about the importance of developing a mobile security policy earlier this year.
Rapid7 has created an infographic that shows how businesses need to learn to contol the “monster” that is BYOD. Here are just some of the risks:
- 71% of businesses surveyed said mobile devices caused an increase in security incidents
- 71% of devices contain high severity operating system and application vulnerabilities
- 51% of organizations experienced data loss from employee use of unsecured mobile devices
- 26% of authenticated devices inactive for >30 days, possibly lost or stolen
You need to control the mobile monster in your business! Mobile device management (MDM) is a very real and complex problem for businesses of all sizes. In 2013, Colden Company will offer MDM to customers of our Remote Monitoring and Management (RMM) solution. Why wait? RMM provides many benefits today, and MDM will just add to its top-tier feature set. Contact us for more information today.
