The London Olympics
are underway and with it has come a flood of athletes, spectators and jobs for
the local population. It is estimated that nearly 100,000 people will be
arriving in London for the games, which means that many people who are already
working in London may have to resort to working from home. The bring your own
device culture has already gained much popularity and is part of many firms’
modus operandi, as their employees will now not be coming to work regularly it
means they may have to take more company information hoe with them. In such a
situation it is crucial for firms and employees to watch out for spy software
for cell phones and ensures that no cell phone spy software manages to steal
their information.
Today there is cell
phone spy software for every platform of smart devices, regardless of how
secure it is rated to be there is always a chance of a security breach. Other
than employees businesses must also be on a watch out as hackers may attempt to
plant spy software for cell phones on the company servers in order to get it to
devices on the network. As employees are now keeping more and more information
on their own personal devices there is a higher chance of this data being
accessed by a hacker. Other than being hacked in to or having information
stolen by someone remotely accessing it there is also the risk of physical
theft. The device being lost or stolen and the information on it may be
compromised if proper precaution are not in place such as a security service
which can remotely lock the device or wipe the data clean. Not so long ago a
similar incident occurred in Canada in which personal information of over 2
million Canadian citizens could have been compromised.
Their information had
been saved to a pair of flash drives and both of these flash drives were lost
in Ontario. Even though the information on them could only be reached by
accessing it through certain software the data was not encrypted which only
makes things worse. So far this incident of data loss has been recorded as one
of the most major, if not the biggest, data loss incidents in Canadian history.
In the case of the
Canadian data loss, and in the case of any firm in general loosing critical and
important data, the people affected are not only the clients whose data has
been lost but also the firm it. Clients are unlikely to work with that firm
again after it has been irresponsible with their personal information in the
past. So companies need to safeguard not only their clients and customers but
in doing so will also be protecting their own reputation. If a large firm does
loose information in such a manner it will be difficult to regain customer
confidence and may also find it hard to recover from the loss.
Furthermore there is
also a concern over who actually owns this information. If the data is in a
company server or device it is the property of that firm, however once the data
is on to a personal employee device things become ambiguous. When the
information has made its way to an employees’ device, it is in many cases out
of bounds for the firm and the firm may not have complete knowledge of what the
person is doing with the information. Through this season of this Olympics and
during everyday life it would be in the benefit of the firm to make sure that a
close watch is kept on sensitive information, be it the firms or the clients.
Author
Bio :- Stella
Rebecca's major effort has revolved around latest gadgets. Recently she's been
playing with the many Android Spy Software that are diverting the interest of the
new generation. Readers can find out more about what's most recent and
happening in the iphone spyware world.
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