Confidential data is leaving on workers' mobile devices

August 29, 2013

More than half of employees admit to storing, sharing and working on corporate documents on their personal devices-and this number is growing. You might want to re-read that statement. It’s a doozy. If you think your BYOD policy telling employees that they can’t put sensitive data on their personal smartphones, laptops and tablets is keeping your company safe, think again. Few office workers are actually aware of their company’s BYOD policy. These are the alarming findings from a recent survey of 4,000 office workers in the United States and United Kingdom, conducted by market researcher Ipsos Mori and commissioned by cloud collaboration platform provider Huddle. If you’re not in the BYOD game, you’ve still got problems. The survey found that 73 percent of respondents in the United States are downloading personal software and apps onto corporate-owned tablets. These might be productivity-killing apps, cloud-storage apps or worse. But you knew that, right? To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

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