denotes premium content | Oct 14 2008 News
posted 21 Jul 2008
Smartphones big security risk
With the wide-scale adoption of smartphones within organisations, a staggering 94 per cent of IT security professionals believe these devices pose more of a security risk to companies than mobile storage devices (88 per cent) and laptops (79 per cent).
That’s the stark warning unearthed by Credant Technologies in a survey carried out among 300 senior IT professionals. Over half of the security conscious respondents (56 per cent) confessed to ‘not bothering’ to use a password every time they used their own mobile/smartphone.
Credant reports that, unlike corporate laptops, the majority of these rogue devices are personally owned, but they are still being granted access to the corporate network without additional security (91 per cent) or restrictions (81 per cent).
Universities will share IT services
Over the next decade universities will stop competing for the same students and move towards becoming centres of excellence, sharing services – especially IT.
James Doggart, managing director, Salford Software, says as more students are studying remotely, the trend is moving towards collaboration and sharing of such non-traditional services.
“The ability to access portals to submit assignments, do research and pick up lecture notes in a VLE (Virtual Learning Environment),” he says, “means students will have less need to physically attend a university campus to study for a degree.”
Sharing IT services, including data storage and email filtering, could be achieved, saving vast amounts of academic expenditure.
