{"id":2281,"date":"2011-07-26T07:00:44","date_gmt":"2011-07-26T15:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.formtek.com\/blog\/?p=2281"},"modified":"2011-07-26T07:00:44","modified_gmt":"2011-07-26T15:00:44","slug":"security-consumer-technologies-invade-the-enterprise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/formtek.com\/blog\/security-consumer-technologies-invade-the-enterprise\/","title":{"rendered":"Security: Consumer Technologies Invade the Enterprise"},"content":{"rendered":"

Enterprise IT infrastructure is at risk from the increased exposure to consumer software and hardware. \u00a0 Empl0yees are increasingly using personal technology devices, like tablet computers and smartPhones to access their company’s email and intranet services, and they also are accessing consumer and social media web sites from their corporate computers on a regular basis. \u00a0From \u00a0a security perspective, the intermingling of corporate services and data with consumer ones is cause for concern.<\/p>\n

A survey <\/a>by ProofPoint <\/a>and Osterman Research<\/a>, 2011 Consumerized IT Security Survey<\/em>,\u00a0\u00a0found that 16 percent of companies totally lock down their networks to access from any personal devices and prohibits access to any non-approved web sites. \u00a0But even among those companies with locked down access, 64 percent of IT staff fear that employees are finding ways to get around the lock down. \u00a0At the other end of the spectrum, 12 percent of companies secure their networks by trusting that their employees to use their “good judgement” in avoiding security vulnerabilities.<\/p>\n

The report suggests that companies should consider a more flexible, but secure, middle road that includes accepting the inevitability that consumer devices and web sites will be used within the corporate network, but companies need to set and monitor policies for how consumer IT can be used. \u00a0The report’s recommendation includes a combination of trust, policy and trechnology.<\/p>\n