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Almost 95% of IT security breaches can be attributed to some kind of human error. They say “to err is human,” and this definitely holds true for IT security. Thankfully, there are steps organizations can take to defend corporate data from employee mistakes. I recently wrote an article on Defending Corporate Data in Spite of Employees for Computer Technology Review, an article which explores just how and why employees...

Data breaches cost the healthcare industry an estimated $5.6 billion annually. This isn’t surprising since 90% of healthcare organizations reported at least one data breach in the past 2 years – and 38% reported more than 5. We talked last week about the value of breached data, and how healthcare records can go for at least 10 times as much as credit card data on the black market. Just why is this?...

CSO Online’s CSO’s 2015 Mobile Security Survival Guide is a succinct look at the shift taking place in enterprise mobile management, reflecting the need to simplify and unify the security and management of devices. A shift in focus and simpler but more powerful tools can go a long way to reducing the threats that mobile devices pose to enterprise data security. As the article points out, part of taking control...

Millions of people unwrapped new devices on Christmas Day. Smartphones, tablets, laptops and other gear prompted a flurry of new device activations. Christmas Day consistently sees the highest number of new device activations and app installs each year (hence why the season is also one of the highest for theft). In 2014, more than 51% of new devices unwrapped worldwide were Apple devices, followed by Samsung (17.7%) and Nokia...

We have been laying out our Predictions for Mobile for a few years now, and as we head into a new year tomorrow, we set forth our Predictions for Mobile in 2015. Last year we predicted the growth in the number of devices supported in organizations. While not all organizations have responded to this fragmentation of devices with a shift in the focus of mobile device policies, we are seeing...