Someone else’s responsibility
Ten years ago, employees were assigned
laptops and told not to lose them. They
were given logins to the company network,
and told not to tell anyone their
password. End of security training.
Today, your ‘millennial’ employees – the
people you want to hire because of the
fresh ideas and energy they can bring to
your business – show up to their first
day on the job toting their own phones,
tablets, and laptops, and expect to integrate
them into their work life. They
also expect others – namely, IT staff and
chief information officers – to figure out
how they can use their treasured devices,
anywhere and anytime they want to,
without putting the enterprise at risk.
Security, they believe, is not really their
responsibility – they want to work hard,
from home or the office, using social