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Information security teams generally lack knowledge and tools...

Information security teams generally lack knowledge and tools to detect security incidents involving mobile devices and fix the problem before major damage occurs, said AccessData and Gigaom Research Tuesday in a report. A “significant” percentage of entities take almost no…

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steps to ensure company-issued or employee-supplied mobile devices are secure when interacting with corporate data, the report said, citing an InformationWeek survey that found only 46 percent of entities required employees using their own devices for corporate purposes to run a MDM client on the device. Fewer entities have procedures to adequately respond to a security incident involving mobile devices, the report said. AccessData and Gigaom recommended information security teams expand their training and tools to deal with mobile device-related incidents (http://bit.ly/1nzZzq4).