Cisco Finds Social Networks, Random Devices Pose Security Risks

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June 29, 2010

Cisco Finds Social Networks, Random Devices Pose Security Risks

By Doug Caverly

The results of a new enterprise security survey should be reliable; they stem from a poll involving 500 IT security professionals based in five different countries. They're not likely to make enterprise security experts happy, however, as they show that users often disregard rules in order to use social networks and unsupported devices at work.

Apparently 68 percent of the IT professionals involved in the survey, which was sponsored by Cisco and conducted by InsightExpress, reported that employees use unsupported social networking apps. As a result, a full 51 percent of the professionals named social networking as one of the three biggest risks their organizations face.

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