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Phishing attacks are not a groundbreaking threat, and general employee awareness of these schemes
has grown in recent years; however, hackers still find success with this tactic by taking advantage of
major news. In fact, the United Nations' health agency released an alert warning of an increased number
of cybercriminals posing as World Health Organization (WHO) representatives amid the current
pandemic. During this stressful time, recipients of these messages are more likely to click on malicious
URLs, open attachments, and give up personal data. Because of this, insider threats will spike and be a
leading cause of data breaches in 2020.

Businesses will implement changes to ensure BYOD devices are secure.

A majority of organizations (85%) were already somewhat prepared for remote work by enabling bring
your own device (BYOD) policies. On the flipside, not all companies that have adopted BYOD are doing
so securely. For example, 43% of businesses do not know if the devices employees are using to access
corporate data are infected with malware--demonstrating a disturbing lack of visibility. By the end of 2020,
we will likely see even higher BYOD adoption rates--whether out of necessity for enabling remote work,
or simply for BYOD’s many benefits, including enhanced mobility, efficiency, and employee satisfaction.

Regardless, when companies enable BYOD, they must also implement agentless security measures that
can protect corporate data on personal devices. With agentless tools, IT gains security and compliance
without invading user privacy through agents on employees’ personal endpoints. As organizations
increasingly realize that cybersecurity must be a top priority, we predict that the use of agentless security
solutions will rise alongside that of BYOD.

About the Author

Anurag is the CTO and co-founder of Bitglass where he
expedites the company’s technology direction and
architecture. Anurag was director of engineering in Juniper
Networks’ Security Business Unit before co-founding Bitglass.
Anurag received a global education, earning an M.S. in
computer science from Colorado State University, and a B.S.
in computer science from the Motilal Nehru National Institute
Of Technology.

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