CLOUD & CYBER
67 % of employees use personal devices at work
$ 350 BYOD generates $ 350 of value each year per employee
2hrs A BYOD-carrying employee works an extra two hours
“[ Cloud systems have ] significantly increased the potential security risks and attack surface area of organisation ”
MATTHEW GRIBBEN CTO AND DATA PROTECTION OFFICER , FARMISON
a coherent security posture and control over a company ’ s data are the main negatives . Therefore it is important to align the best security software to a company ’ s defined and regularly-tested processes and procedures in order to mitigate the threats .”
Cloud versus on-prem Former cyber security consultant at GCHQ , Matthew Gribben , now CTO and data protection officer at Farmison , says there has been a marked increase in
87 % of businesses are dependent on their employee ’ s ability to access mobile business apps from their smartphone
moving to the cloud from on-premises services , exacerbated by the pandemic , in both large and small organisations .
“ What this means is that previously businesses had systems that lived within the organisation ’ s own infrastructure ( ie actually in the building ) and behind a firewall , or a perimeter . Now we are all using a mixture of these on-premise systems and those that live in the cloud : Office 365 , Teams , Zoom meetings , task management and so on . This has significantly increased the potential security risks and attack surface area of organisations and workers ’ identities are at more risk of compromise via phishing attacks , or simple brute force attacks , to much more complex risks like supply chain attacks – take SolarWinds , for example .” technologymagazine . com 83