SAVE THE DATE: SANS will be hosting a complimentary webcast on April 12 at 1pm, releasing the results to the First Annual Survey on Mobility Security. They will also provide a link to a copy of the report.
In December, SANS surveyed various companies to discover if and how organizations are managing risk around their end user mobile devices. The results showed that only 9 percent of organizations felt they were fully aware of the devices accessing corporate resources, while half felt only vaguely or fairly aware of the mobile devices accessing their resources.
“Another interesting note (that aligns with what we saw on the vendor side at the RSA Security Conference in March) is that organizations are reaching for everything at their disposal to manage this risk,” said Deb Radcliff, executive editor, SANS Analyst Program. “Among them are user education, MDM (mobile device management), logging and monitoring, NAC and guest networking, and configuration controls.”
Though less than 20 percent of organizations are using end point security tools, more are using agent-based tools rather than agent-less.
“More than 60 percent of organizations today allow staff to bring their own devices,” says SANS Senior Instructor and survey author Kevin Johnson. “With this type of permissiveness, policies and controls are even more important to help secure our environments.”
To register for the webcast and sign up for a copy of the paper, click here.
