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“Both the bring-your-own-device phenomenon, whereby workers opt to use their own gear for work, and company-provided mobile work tools offer opportunities for data leakage,” said Fiaaz Walji, Canadian country manager for Websense. “When you add the fact that these mobile devices have cloud-based applications, free access to social sites, and a lot of them carry sensitive data on them, the security risk has just skyrocketed.”

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“We’ve seen the Android platform become the preferred platforms of attack, because it’s open source, it has more malware – 252 versions at last count,” Fiaaz Walji, Canadian country manager for Websense said. “Apple iOS is a little bit safer, partially because of the vetting process Apple does on its end. Regardless of platform, companies have to secure these devices. Restricting them is not an option. ”

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“Security keepers at Websense believe that these new devices are entering the workplace faster than enterprise IT pros can rule them out as potential threats to corporate security. The iPad and iPhone cleared the way here. ‘It really became an avalanche after that,’ Websense CSO Jason Clark tells Fast Company. In response, Websense thinks it's developed a gateway system for this BYOD age.”

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“The [bring-your-own-device] BYOD phenomenon is rapidly circumventing security policies,” said Jason Clark, CSO of Websense. “It’s difficult to enforce security policies on something you do not control.”

“Clark said many organizations are trying to take the technologies and security concepts for laptops and desktops at the endpoint and apply them to smartphones and tablets. ‘These are concepts that everyone has been educated on [for protecting] things and they’re trying to apply it over to something that is completely different,’ he said.”

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