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06:51 9th June 2011
The rise of worker's own gadgets, like the iPad and iPhone, may pose extra risks to businesses and it is up to security technology firms to manufacture tools to deal with the surge of these objects in the office, according to Alex Teh, the commercial director of information security solutions company, Vigil Software.
"It's up to companies like us to actually find the technologies able to combine the security solutions to essentially manage the rise of consumerism," he said.
The expert went on to say that workers are bringing technologies like "iPhones, iPads [and] smartphones" into the "corporate network" because they want to use them and they are sufficiently powerful.
Companies will need to encrypt smartphones and controlling what is uploaded and downloaded to them to manage this trend, he said.
His comments emerged as an ISACA (Information Systems Audit and Control Association) survey revealed 61 per cent of information technology leaders in Britain share the view that any employee-owned mobile device poses a greater risk to the enterprise than company-supplied devices do.
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