Many organizations’ BYOD policies have lax security:
- 45 percent let any device onto the network without enforcing user compliance with policies in place.
- 53 percent of organizations just require a password longer than four characters, 7 percent have no password requirements.
- 42 percent of organizations skip malware scanning.
- 13 percent do not enforce encryption requirements on mobile devices that access enterprise data.
The result of lax policies has been security incidents at a significant number of organizations. In the past year:
- 11 percent have experienced a data breach requiring public disclosure.
- 45 percent have had a mobile device containing enterprise data be reported missing.
Survey responses were collected from 421 organizations, 32 percent of which are subject to HIPAA.
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