1. BYOD makes two of the prolific lists for cyber threats released for the year ahead. Grouped with Cloud services, this new technological development poses more and more of a risk to information security.
Experts recommend: If you can’t eliminate BYOD or Cloud, make sure to implement them early, correctly and where possible with clear boundaries to distinguish between personal and professional data.
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2. Reputational damage is largely dependent on how efficient your incident-response plan is. Time and time again we hear that companies are more than likely to have already suffered an attack and not even know it. Not a day goes by without a hacking story surfacing in the news. Improving the security defences are of course recommended but for companies that want to stay ahead there is some more advice:
Experts recommend: Once the damage is done, a good response time can make the difference between a company’s survival and its failure. Plus it’s not only the IT department that must take all the heat. Correlated efforts throughout the entire organization are necessary to mitigate the issues. Just look at the #RBSglitch or the BA promoted tweet incidents to see the damage that can be done.
