Employees need to practice ‘safe apps’
This should serve as a wakeup call for businesses. The report indicates that as employees continue to use their own devices and personal applications for work purposes, more threats are introduced into the workplace, putting company networks at risk.
The data indicated a nearly 4X increase in the volume of potentially threatening apps for Android in 2013 — 384 percent increase in total threats to Android devices, and 42 percent of applications for Android analyzed were classified as malicious, unwanted, or suspicious.
• Pay close attention to permission requests from new app installations. Err on the side of caution.
• Both corporate-owned and personal devices should use lock screens. Eight-digit PINS are much better than swipe locks of four-digit pins.
• And, use a mobile-device security app to protect against malicious apps and Web threats.
This should serve as a wakeup call for businesses. The report indicates that as employees continue to use their own devices and personal applications for work purposes, more threats are introduced into the workplace, putting company networks at risk.
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