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Why Is Shadow IT a Growing Cybersecurity Risk?

SecureWorld News

Individual employees often adopt shadow IT for their convenience and productivity—they feel they can work more efficiently or effectively using their personal devices and preferred software, instead of the company’s sanctioned IT resources. To access applications or data that are not available on corporate systems.

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Why endpoint security will be a renewed priority for businesses of all sizes in 2023

CIO Business Intelligence

They achieve this via several means, but one of the most common is via phishing, which typically involves convincing someone to download a piece of malware from a legitimate-looking email that will then gather login data and other sensitive info that can give the criminals access to much more within the organisation.

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The BYOD Problem

Cloud Musings

This reality of modern business was highlighted by the Information Security Community on LinkedIn through their 2016 Spotlight Report on “Bring Your Own Device” (BYOD). 20% of surveyed organizations have suffered a mobile security breach, primarily driven by malware and malicious WiFi.

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Penetration Testing Remote Workers

SecureWorld News

Personal email addresses that may be on the same BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) assets. These are off limits regardless of where the BYOD is located, and organizations should use a Mobile Device Management (MDM) solution to provide email segmentation and data management.

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RIP MDM 200X ? December 16th 2011 - A Screw's Loose

A Screw's Loose

Mobile Device Management (MDM) is dead and many hardly knew you. I truly never thought you would hang on this long but you really managed to stick it out. You were great at handing applications out and in some cases you even learnt how to take them back. Mobile makes the issue more poignant. .

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MIM ? For The Win - A Screw's Loose

A Screw's Loose

A few months ago I wrote a blogpost about how MDM (Mobile Device Management) had died. It was a slow painful death, but it was justified as it brought forth MAM (Mobile Application Management) and would lead to MIM (Mobile Information Management). MIM – For The Win.

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Identify yourself for MIM - A Screw's Loose

A Screw's Loose

Essentially he has built a Venn Diagram based around 3 concepts, Mobile Security, API Security, and Enterprise Security. He was kind enough to place things like MDM (Mobile Device Management) and MAM (Mobile Application Management) in the diagram for us. Going Mobile. Enterprise Mobility.