Young Employees Pose Increasing Risk to Networks

buzzardsbay writes "Baseline is reporting on an upcoming survey from Symantec and Applied Research-West that confirms many suspicions about the generation gap in the workplace, namely that younger workers will use your corporate network to run most any device, technology or social networking software they can get their hands on. Dubbed "Millenials," these workers born after 1980 are nearly twice as likely to use cell phones and PDAs at work, and half admit to installing unauthorized software on their employer's computers. On the upside, the Millenials are more security aware than their older co-workers."

Comments

Re:What about the other half?

[Smidge204]

Interesting how you say that "installing unauthorized software" = "more productive"

I'm willing to bet that the vast majority of "unauthorized software" are things like chat clients, media players, RSS/Weather update notifiers, games and software for personal devices (iTunes etc).
=Smidge=

Re:they need to protect their networks

[Danny Rathjens]

That's why the ol' security maxim of basing authentication on "something you have and something you know." a.k.a. multi-factor authentication. It's a lot harder to social engineer something they have away from someone.

Re:they need to protect their networks

[Screen404-O]

Try SureTrack, Digger, Or P3. also a lot of old digitizer software.