Employees put business data at risk

Some companies have as many as 35 such apps in their environments, a study found

By Lucian Constantin

If you work for a large, global company, chances are some of your peers have installed gambling apps on the mobile devices they use for work, and that’s bad news for IT security.

A study has found that the average company has more than one such gambling application in some employee devices, putting corporate data stored on those devices at risk.

The analysis was performed by security firm Veracode, which scanned hundreds of thousands of mobile apps installed in corporate mobile environments. The study found that some companies had as many as 35 mobile gambling apps on their network environment.

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Source: http://www.csoonline.com/

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