One in five people put corporate data at risk via unsecured Wi-Fi hotspots

Employees are putting corporate data at risk by using unsecured hotspots and over sharing on cloud services, according to a new report. The study from cloud security specialist Bitglass set up Wi-Fi hotspots in random public spaces for two hour time slots, and captured and analyzed traffic, finding that of the 834 people in the public spaces, 187 unique devices (around 20 percent) 20 percent connected. Of that 20 percent, 21 people accessed enterprise cloud applications over the unsecured Wi-Fi hotspot, including Office 365, Salesforce, Adobe Marketing Cloud, ADP, Slack, and Asana -- putting corporate data at risk. Two connected… [Continue Reading]