Businesses concerned over security risks from mobile phone
15 Feb 2013
A Deloitte report has pointed to growth concerns among businesses about the high security risks posed by allowing employees to use their own mobile devices on work systems.
A global survey had flagged cyber security as an emerging concern, with technology, media and telecommunications (TMT) organisations this year elevating the security risk in respect of mobile devices to the second highest spot.
The risk had been rated ''high or average'', by around three quarters or 74 per cent of respondents as against in 2012 when they had just feared it.
According to Dean Kingsley, technology risk leader at Deloitte, who spoke to the The Australian Financial Review, mobile devices did not make the top three concerns last year, as these had been seen only an ''emerging'' problem.
But now there were largely disparate handsets, and it was a complex landscape in the BYOD (bring your own device) world.
According to Kingsley, Google's Android operating system was more of a security concern than other operating systems such as Apple and BlackBerry.
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