Confession: I am sleeping with my iPhone
By Davey Winder in Editorial
Posted in Data Protection, Blog, hardware, Apple on
I am cheating on my wife, with my iPhone. Dammit, I admit it, I sleep with my iPhone, OK?
When I finish working of a night, which is often around 2am, I tend to unwind by reading the latest news or catching up with Twitter in bed. The iPhone is the perfect device for this, small and unobtrusive enough (in terms of both light emission and, courtesy of the touch keyboard, noise) not to bother my other half.
So I was not altogether surprised to get a press release today which revealed that I am most certainly not alone in cuddling up to IT in bed. A survey by endpoint data outfit Credant Technologies reckons that 27 percent of folk take a mobile device of some sort, be it an iPhone, netbook or lappy, to bed with them. Of those people who do work in bed of a night, 57 percent spend anywhere up to 6 hours a week at it. Nor was I surprised to discover that the majority of bed workers admitted their partners thought it was a “very annoying habit.”
I was a little taken aback to learn that 8 percent said they spend more time on mobile devices during the course of the evening than they do actually talking to their partners, however!
So what was the point of this survey and why did I get a copy? Because it was entitled “Laptop use in bed and the security implications” and had been designed to highlight the security implications of unsecured mobile devices. Presumably the implications of sleeping with an unsecured device, unsafe hex if you like.
And what were those implications? Here goes:
44 percent admitted they are holding important work documents on their mobile devices, and 54 percent of those were not encrypted. 20 percent added to the security problem by not using a secure wireless network while tapping away under the covers, the favoured bedtime connection option for 87 percent of those questioned. The problem being that 56 percent admitted they were moving company information around across it. Obviously hotel bed usage is high when it comes to sneaking a netbook under the covers, yet 47 percent did not bother checking if the hotel wireless network was secure or not first.
Michael Callahan, Vice President at Credant Technologies says “with increasing pressures on companies to comply with regulations, such as the Data Protection Act, we all have to respect our customers and employers by protecting the data held on our mobile devices, where ever we may be.”
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