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Our workplace is undergoing a major change, and the BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) phenomenon is the most significant change from appearance to popularity. Enterprises have allowed or even encouraged employees to use their own equipment to handle business transactions. Under the temptation of “significant reduction in IT procurement costs, improvement in employee satisfaction, and increased work efficiency”, the trend of enterprise mobility and borderlessness is unstoppable, accompanied by massive Mobile applications, corporate business while flying fast with the mobile Internet runway, it is becoming more and more important to see which security issues will become the biggest stumbling block.
The more you know, the more fear you have.
Recently, Fortinet, the global leader in high-performance network security solutions, released the latest global information security survey report for 2015. The data collection is led by Lightspeed/GMI, a world-renowned market research organization. In the 12 countries and regions around the world, there are 1490 IT decision-makers in the company with more than 250 employees, mainly CIOs, CTOs, The results of the survey collected by the IT director and the IT department supervisors in the form of a questionnaire.
The report shows that nearly half (49%) of respondents ranked wireless networks as the most vulnerable, 92% of CIOs worried that wireless networks will be attacked, and the biggest concern comes from China, and 100% of CIOs say wireless security Very worried. In addition, when asked about the risks of operating under a wireless network without security, the survey results also showed some bright spots: 48% of respondents said that leakage of sensitive data from enterprises or customers is the biggest risk; 71% The Chinese respondents all expressed concern about the security of wireless networks, while in Japan, the figure is only 13%. This series of data also confirms from another perspective that China's smart mobile devices are developing rapidly and have played a role in corporate business. An increasingly important role.
[49% of respondents ranked wireless networks as the most vulnerable part]
While enterprise mobility can deliver immediate returns, deploying a safe and secure environment is not as simple as “unscrewing the tap”. According to market reports, China will become the leader in the BYOD application market in 2016, with 166 million devices in the wireless office environment. The fierce "blowout" situation in the domestic market has also brought huge potential safety hazards, which is in line with Fortinet's research report, "100% CIO concerns".
In the absence of preparation, when acquiescing or promoting employees to bring their own devices to work, users will access personal social networks, download favorite apps, browse the web, and the same device will access key data within the enterprise. However, because the company's confidential data is more attractive and selling point for hackers, they will use APT attack technology to invade unprotected mobile terminals and obtain accounts and passwords for accessing the enterprise cloud computing environment. Using these accounts to discover vulnerabilities and eventually stealing core data can be horrifying. The data in the report actually feeds back this situation, but it is worth noting that in China, 78% of users are concerned about the risk of “loss of sensitive data and/or user data”, which is much higher than the global average of 47%. .
[Leakage of sensitive data is the biggest risk for global companies]
Li Hongkai, general manager of Fortinet China, said: "In fact, as people learn more about wireless security issues, the degree of concern is higher. From the report, we have seen a more positive side, more and more IT managers are beginning to realize the role of wireless security in the entire business system. IT departments in the enterprise need to strike a balance between strong network security and flexible connectivity, and wireless networks must be part of the overall security strategy."
Wireless security and hopelessness
Nowadays, all kinds of malicious attacks are very focused on concealment. Malicious attacks against the Internet from the Internet may also be detected by various security products. However, personal information is often stored in smart devices in the enterprise wireless environment. Private mailbox passwords may also be passwords for users logging into the BYOD environment. Non-professional individual users will be more difficult to detect in time when faced with attacks by professional hackers. Behind a WeChat friend's greeting message, there is often an unknown threat of malicious attack.
In the industry at present, in order to solve the problem of wireless security, major networks and security vendors have launched corresponding solutions, based on online behavior management, there are wired and wireless integrated thinking based on firewall gateways, there are terminal-based viruses. Safe and secure, with anti-leakage for mobile application data, and more. And in the context of enterprise mobileization is a foregone conclusion, what means will users choose to solve security problems?
The Fortinet report was collected in the form of an online questionnaire for 1,490 IT decision makers (CIOs, CTOs, IT directors, and IT executives), one of which surveyed respondents' future wireless network security strategy. Most respondents said that they will still focus on the most common firewall and access authentication security functions, while 23% of respondents have higher security and complementary technical requirements, in order of priority, IPS, anti-virus, Application control and URL filtering to fully build a security defense system.
"We can see the user's helplessness and expectation for wireless security. Because the industry lacks a solution specifically for the wireless security layer, many users can only use the most basic security features + various complementary technologies, and the final result is the product layer. Layer stacking.” BYOD security management will encounter more complicated situations. Employees using wireless networks will be subject to various restrictions, affecting the experience of mobile services, but a little omission will provide opportunities for hackers.
Li Hongkai said that Fortinet will achieve a unique secure wireless solution by creating a "wireless security layer" instead of simply using the wireless mechanism as an extension of the network architecture. It is hoped that this will solve problems such as product isolation and repeated stacking, and help companies to kick off the biggest potential safety stumbling block in the future.
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