8 Security Practices to Use in Your Employee Training and Awareness Program

This might be hard to believe, but it is true: 59 percent of data breaches are happening not because of some smart hacker who wants to do harm to your company but because of your own employees.

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The suggestions included in this post are applicable regardless of whether your employees are using smartphones or computers, or if they’re using their own devices or company-provisioned equipment.

Some of the recommendations include:

1) Authentication
2) Network Connection
3) Access to the Device
4) Physical Security

... and 4 more.

Read all of the employee training and awareness program recommendations on the Tripwire State of Security blog.

Mobile Security By The Numbers

As ubiquity of mobility paired with the availability of cloud continues to drive major technological disruptions within just about every type of enterprise transacting business today, CIOs and CISOs are increasingly put on notice to incorporate mobile into their security plans or risk irrelevance.

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Over the past several months, numerous surveys and studies have done a good job offering up some statistical proof points about the scope of the mobile security dilemma.

Read the article to see a collection of salient stats, including:

• Mobile Fraud Estimates: TeleSign
• Mobile Wild West: BlueBox
• Mobile Malware Tipping Point: Alcatel-Lucent
• Different Needs By Form Factor: Good Technology
• Mobile Payment Still Untrusted: Tripwire
• and more...