GEC NEWS WIREAccording to HID Global survey, widespread use of mobile devices by employees, has significantly led to security breaches, data loss and/or compliance issues
HID Global has revealed that security and compliance are a major concern for CIOs and IT departments across the Middle East, as a result of the increased usage of mobile devices by employees. A survey conducted by HID Global across the Middle East region found that 97 percent of the respondents said that the widespread use of mobile devices by employees, has significantly increased their organizations risk profile for security breaches, data loss and/or compliance issues.
“The findings indicate that CIOs and IT departments are clearly concerned about the risks and challenges associated with increased use of mobile devices by employees,” said Andrew Lintell, Director of Sales, Identity Assurance, EMEA with HID Global. “However, it is encouraging to see that security and compliance is high on the agenda for organisations, even though they have not experienced any breaches in recent times.”
While organizations acknowledge that cloud-based storage services are widely used among employees, 34 percent said that they strongly discouraged or prohibited users from using these services to access company data or services.
HID Global recommends deploying simple, convenient and cost effective multi-factor authentication solutions, to ensure user convenience, and to prevent problems from occurring in the first place. At GITEX Technology Week HID also demonstrated how solutions such as ActivID Tap Authentication platform can provide convenient and secure multi-factor authentication to cloud applications and web services.
