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Chief Information Officers should start making sure that mobile devices on their network as secure as possible. In this article Larry Dignan, describes that the biggest threat to corporate security stems from employees bringing their own devices on the network. Its not necessarily the devices that aren’t secure its the people that own the devices that are negligent. Many people still do not have PIN codes on their devices and if users were to open spam on their phone many devices automatically download messages in their entirety allowing for malware to  install itself. CISOs must implement BYOD policies and enforce mandatory PIN codes and software that allows remote wiping if a phone were to be lost. Since the internet of things is become more prevalent people need to be aware that the more devices they have connecting to the internet the more vulnerable they are. Dignan says that devices should have auto-lock enabled, should be kept within sight at all times and to have auto-discover Bluetooth turned off. This is some of the advice he gives to securing devices in an organization. He also states that malware will get more significant in the years to come as more and more devices become available to hackers on the internet.

Article: https://hbr.org/2016/09/your-biggest-cybersecurity-weakness-is-your-phone