Consumer Tech Products An IT Security Nightmare
84 percent of organizations are allowing employees to use consumer technology such as iPads, iPhones, Facebook, Twitter and instant messages.
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Of the 16 percent of organizations that don’t let employees use consumer technology in the workplace, 64 percent suspect employees are using it anyway.
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71 percent of organizations that do not allow consumer technology in the workplace do nothing more than issue a warning to employees who violate policy.
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48 percent of organizations that allow consumer technology in the workplace allow users to choose which technologies they use.
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11 percent of organizations rely on “employee good judgment” alone to ensure that consumer devices and applications are used securely within the organization.
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Another 22 percent of organizations only rely on policies to guide users into making safe decisions about how they’re using consumer technology in the workplace.
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Just over half of organizations, though, have policies in place as well as some sort of technology to help enforce those policies surrounding the use of consumer technology.
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56 percent of respondents said they either have no consumer technology adoption strategy in place or do not know if their company even has a plan.
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Only 29 percent have an adoption plan, and only 13 percent are in the process of developing a plan to integrate consumer technology into overall IT.