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Flexible working is the 'chink in a company's IT security armour'
As growing numbers of businesses take advantage of the advances made in the field of online communications and give their workforce greater flexibility, a significant number are failing to adapt their IT security systems accordingly.
That is the conclusion of a new study, which found that, of the UK businesses analysed, 55 per cent of senior managers had not been issued with security advice regarding off-site employees.
This comes despite 92 per cent of businesses saying that they regularly provide remote access to business-sensitive data to off-site employees.
Commenting on the implications of this, Gary Clark, European vice president of SafeNet, the company behind the new study, said: "Organisation's data security policies are only as strong as the weakest link. Right now, remote working is the chink in the network armour."
The findings come soon after research from Aberdeen found that online communications uptake made a business 3.8 times more likely to reduce the amount of downtime its mobile sales staff experience, with access to email, web-browsing applications and internet telephony all significant advantages.
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