Securing the perimeter is not an easy task. There are a multitude of Problems businesses have to consider, especially when it comes to their own employees. The article "7 Ways to Keep your Employees Happy" gives readers several points that I personally believe business owners should consider when it comes securing their perimeters.
Karsten Strauss, the author of the article, believes that having employees build ownership within their company is imperative for them to be comfortable in it. I say yes and no to this. Yes, because its good for employees to have the mind set that a companies successes are their successes, and its failures and their failures. I say no its not good, because what if an employee in the IT department takes too much "ownership" over all that he surveys. What if that employee decides he doesn't want to trust other employees (or personnel that may one day be in his current position) with administrative access or lower types of access? This employee may feel like others won't be able to live up to his standards.
Keeping your team informed sounds nice, and I'm sure a lot of employees would appreciate it. But in some fields, certain amounts of knowledge just aren't necessary for employees to know. It's important to make sure employees know the direction the company is trying to take, but if you give too much in depth info, you're just creating potential security risks for yourself.
Overall, the article brings up several useful tips for businesses. Those businesses that do consider the ideas from this article need to be careful how interpret these tips for use in their own business though.
Blog by Hans Harvey
Blog Post 13
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Author: Karsten Strauss
Title: 7 Ways to Keep your Employees Happy (and Working Really Hard)
Address: http://www.forbes.com/sites/karstenstrauss/2013/09/08/7-ways-to-keep-your-employees-happy-and-working-really-hard/
Tuesday, December 10, 2013
Tuesday, December 3, 2013
Thoughts on personal devices being the biggest threat to corporate security / Managing the Security of Mobile Devices in the Enterprise
Managing the security of mobile devices in the corporate world is not as easy as setting a policy and telling employees to follow it. The author of the article, Personal devices pose biggest threat to corporate security, brings up several points in her article that I believe any corporation or business should consider when thinking about the security of mobile devices.
First, you would think having a password enabled for all employees is common sense, but when an employee has to re-enter their password over and over again to get in, it gets tedious and annoying. This is why, even if a policy that asks employees to have a password on their phone exists, most don't. I agree that in the corporate setting, there should be a password and there should be a way to make it easier for employees, so there should be some kind of a balance. One solution I could think of for this is to have a password, but to remove the sleep or power save functions. So long as employees bring chargers, they could just leave their mobile devices on when they are there using them, and lock them when they aren't. It's a simple solution, but its better than just having no password at all, or having employees pissed off at management.
Secondly, Corporations should allow employees to bring their own devices. If a corporation has a policy where they give employees mobile devices to use at work, employees are simply going to sneak their personal devices in.
If a corporation can compromise with employees, I believe the security of mobile devices will be far less of a challenge.
Blog by Hans Harvey
Blog Post 12
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Author: Liz Bolshaw
Title: Personal devices pose biggest threat to corporate security
Address: http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/e4b53190-4b82-11e3-a02f-00144feabdc0.html#axzz2mQaruiQ1
First, you would think having a password enabled for all employees is common sense, but when an employee has to re-enter their password over and over again to get in, it gets tedious and annoying. This is why, even if a policy that asks employees to have a password on their phone exists, most don't. I agree that in the corporate setting, there should be a password and there should be a way to make it easier for employees, so there should be some kind of a balance. One solution I could think of for this is to have a password, but to remove the sleep or power save functions. So long as employees bring chargers, they could just leave their mobile devices on when they are there using them, and lock them when they aren't. It's a simple solution, but its better than just having no password at all, or having employees pissed off at management.
Secondly, Corporations should allow employees to bring their own devices. If a corporation has a policy where they give employees mobile devices to use at work, employees are simply going to sneak their personal devices in.
If a corporation can compromise with employees, I believe the security of mobile devices will be far less of a challenge.
Blog by Hans Harvey
Blog Post 12
Sources-
Author: Liz Bolshaw
Title: Personal devices pose biggest threat to corporate security
Address: http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/e4b53190-4b82-11e3-a02f-00144feabdc0.html#axzz2mQaruiQ1
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