Intelligent CIO Europe Issue 08 | Page 49

////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// nose to spite your face. Businesses need to have a modern mobile working strategy in place to enable the mobile workforce to stay connected without putting the company at risk of a security breach. So how do businesses go about striking this balance between mobility and security? One way is to encourage employees to use VPNs when they work remotely. A VPN service protects the proverbial ‘last mile’ where a user’s data is most vulnerable to security risks. It masks and encrypts data, which protects users from unwittingly exposing personal information and company critical www.intelligentcio.com FEATURE: MOBILE SECURITY ENTERPRISES NEED TO STRIKE THE DELICATE BALANCE BETWEEN KEEPING THEIR DATA AND SYSTEMS SECURE, WITHOUT HAMPERING THE CRUCIAL PRODUCTIVITY OF THEIR MOBILE WORKFORCE. INTELLIGENTCIO 49