How Do You Ensure Cyber Security Beyond The Firewall?
Cyber security and generation Y mission impossible
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A new generation of workers raises the bar for cyber security
The implications for cyber security are wider than just mobility: Gartner warns that the proliferation of consumer devices and demands of employees are forcing organizations to create mobility programs to support corporate email and other applications on consumer products, such as iPhone, iPad and Android devices. These deployments bring a range of new challenges, from security, compliance and management, to cost and human capital management.
To deal with these challenges youll need to implement new measures, such as:
Policies for acceptable use of mobile devices;
User training in the safe use of mobile devices;
Controls and tools to help business managers and IT staff to enforce policies;
Mitigation strategies to manage the risks across multiple device platforms.
New risk: generation change
Its not just environment and devices that are changing; users are too. Young professionals expect to have unfettered access to social networking, a trend thats giving IT security staff more headaches. A recent Cisco survey found that 2 out of 3 U.S. IT security decision makers perceived social networking as the biggest risk to their organization.
Another factor is that many dont see data security as their responsibility. They want to work hard, from home or the office, using social networks and cloud applications to get the job done, writes Constantine von Hoffman on CIO.com, while someone else builds seamless security into their interactions.
Theyve also grown up sharing: Our entire emerging workforce has grown up online and has been engineered to over-share, Branden Williams from RSA explained to SC Magazine. As a result, they have a different view of whats private and public. The older generation assumes everything is private, except what they choose to make public, David Evans at Cisco explains. To the younger generation, everything is public, except what they choose to make private.
Enlightened CIOs are finding ways to support these dramatic changes. John N. Stewart, CSO at Cisco says: We should not focus on specific issues, like whether to allow people to use their iPads at work, because its a foregone conclusion. Rather, focus on solutions to the bigger business challenge: enabling technology for competitive advantage.
Thats probably good long term advice, but it doesnt address an immediate problem: the number of mobile devices lost that hold corporate information. In 2010, 10,000 mobile phones were left just in London taxis , and 11,000 laptops, tablets, smart phones and USB sticks were left just in five US airports, with half of the phones expected to hold business data, passwords, PIN numbers and credit card information on them. More recently, a Ponemon Institute study found that the 329 organizations polled had collectively lost over 86,000 laptops, calculated to be worth $2.1 billion. Of these, 46% contained confidential data, only 30 percent of them were encrypted, and only 10 percent had other anti-theft technologies. Clearly loss of mobile devices is a serious information governance issue.
by: Astal mark
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