Published Wednesday, March 21, 2012 1:26 AM by Patricia Hogan

“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.”

http://www.cbc.ca/news/business/story/2012/03/19/technology-data-loss-mobile-devices.html