Gen Y workers OK with flouting cloud, BYOD policies
October 22, 2013
Grazed from ITWorldCanada. Author: Nestor E. Arellano.
Corporate IT administrators may have more to worry about than just the wave of smart watches, Google glasses and other wearable computing devices that could flood the enterprise soon. A recent survey of indicates that more than half of Generation Y workers are prepared to contravene corporate bring your own device and cloud computing policies if it cramps their personal and professional computing and social networking activity.
“It’s not getting any better for IT groups,” said John Maddison, vice-president of marketing for American network security appliance firm Fortinet Technologies Inc. “It’s really alarming to see policy contravention so high and so sharply on the rise, especially when instances of Gen Y users being victims of cybercrime is rising.”…
Generation Y, also known as the Millennial Generation, is a demographic cohort that includes individuals born in the early 1980s to the early 2000s. The oldest of this cohort would be around 32-years-old…
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