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BYOD security problem: Less than 10% of tablet owners use auto-lock

By Matthew Miller | March 1, 2012, 7:02am PST

Summary: More of us are bringing our smartphones and tablets to work, but very few enable even the most basic security measures. This can lead to major problems if a device is lost or stolen so please at least enable auto lock with a password.

I work for a 67 person engineering consulting firm and every smartphone in the office is brought in by the employee. No one has an Android tablet, but there are about ten people with iPads that connect to our Exchange server. I keep my devices close at hand, but still enable the screen lock function on my phones. I don?t have this turned on for my iPad now and actually wasn?t too shocked to read an ESET/Harris Interactive study that shows less than 10% of people using their own tablets for work auto lock them.

Detailed information about this issue: http://www.zdnet.com...-auto-lock/5536

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Read in addition please:

BYOD: Wins, hurdles and lessons for 2012

By Andrew Nusca | February 23, 2012, 4:00am PST

Summary: BYOD: What is driving it? What has changed? What are anticipated hurdles beyond the horizon? We sit down with Enterproid?s Dan Dearing to read the tea leaves for 2012.

http://www.zdnet.com...-for-2012/69845

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And another article regards on that issue:

Many SMB mobile devices unmanaged, presenting security risk

By Heather Clancy | February 22, 2012, 3:51pm PST

Summary: More than half the Apple iOS mobile devices considered in a newly released study by mobile security vendor Mobilisafe were using outdated firmware.

http://www.zdnet.com...urity-risk/1606