Tag: smartphones
Business smartphones suffer from data encryption deficit
A new study has found worrying evidence that a majority of smartphones used by businesses do not have any kind of encryption protecting the sensitive data which they store, leaving the door open for malicious parties to steal and corrupt corporate details and private information. Seventy per cent of respondents to a survey carried out by security firm Check Point, said that the smartphones issued by their employers had no …
Report examines security flaws of mobile device usage
An international report has discovered that while mobile device usage is on the rise many people are combining business and pleasure in a single smartphone and, consequently, putting corporate data and personal customer details at risk of loss or theft. More than 6000 people from around the world were questioned as part of the survey conducted on behalf of Juniper Networks, with 81 per cent of respondents saying that they …
