As the new portable devices such as Mobile phones, Flash memories and Mp3 players are getting more and more popular, a new security threat is showing up in the networks where the employees are bringing such the things to their workplace for their personal use.
Recently two computer scientists from University of Strathclyde, in Glasgow published an article in “International Journal of Electronic Security and Digital Forensics” which shows the illegal usage of these new portable devices in the workplace computing systems. These two researchers are introducing two methods in their article to decrease the numbers of data theft and malwares distribution via these devices into the computer networks.
The main problem with these devices is because of their large capacity and web connectivity capabilities which let even the normal users to carry huge amounts of data in a very small portable device and also can transfer them to internet or send them as email with Wi-Fi.Their suggestion to the organizations is that they should ban these portable devices to be brought to the workplace which contains valuable and confidential information by their employees. But as we know there is no possible way to remove the data leakage in the workplace completely. Source:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/03/100331081133.htm
It would be a threat for big companies as the employee may carry a lot of secret information in their computers, laptops or even portable devices.As you have mentioned they had better ban such devices to bring with themselves in the office, but the problem is that the usage of such devices is wide in the companies.
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