From a conceptual point of view, it's all about our attitude to the risk. To keep it simple, we can distinguish three different main security philosophies.

In its 2011 Data Breach Investigations Report, Verizon Business reported that 17% of all data breaches in 2010 were due to internal agents. It is true that represents a relative decrease of 31% compared to 2009, but this is mainly due to the exploding number of breaches having external agents as an origin (+22%), which is not a surprise. The bottom line is that the absolute number of such internal breaches didn’t change much over the last couple of years, meaning that you still have to pay high attention to this phenomenon.

I’m not considering myself as a “geek”, but nevertheless, I’m using new technologies everyday to help make my job easier.

In my previous blog I set out how smartphones and tablets – and more generally mobility – are changing the networking landscape. Let me now discuss with you the steps that need to be taken in order to make your network “BYOD proofed”.

Looking backward, computing and connectivity have always moved along side by side. We have evolved from serial to Ethernet, thus gaining speed and flexibility, have introduced switching and have added different prefixes to Ethernet to gain even more speed. Then we have introduced wireless to attach some specific devices primarily for casual access. Now there is another shift; mobility changes everything and wireless is becoming the easiest and quickest way to connect devices to the network, while ensuring performance and security.