BYOD security challenges: control and protect your most sensitive data

Several new trends in information access are impacting organisations' ability to control and secure sensitive corporate data. The increase in web applications, cloud computing and Software as a Service (SaaS) offerings, and the Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) phenomenon, means that employees, business partners and customers are increasingly accessing information using a web browser on a device not owned or managed by the organisation. The increase in web applications, cloud computing and Software as a Service (SaaS) offerings, and the Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) phenomenon are driving employees, business partners and customers to increasingly access information on devices are not managed by IT departments. This has resulted in security implications for data leakage, data theft and regulatory compliance. To protect valuable information, organisations must stop making a distinction between devices in the corporate network and devices outside of it, argues Bill Morrow of Quarri Technologies.