The finance sector in Qatar has a data security problem, but it goes beyond external threats from hackers. Jacob Chacko from Aruba explains what this threat is and how businesses can combat it. People working in the finance sector are in agreement: there is a major threat to the success of the banking and finance industry, one that ignores boom and bust cycles and does not care about stock market fluctuations or interest rates. But this threat is also an essential and highly successful ingredient in the revival of the finance industry’s fortunes.
What is this unwitting, non-malicious threat? It is the mobile-tech carrying employees themselves, better described as #GenMobile. Everyone has heard of Generation X, Generation Y, and Generation Z (the Internet’s digital natives), but the #GenMobile is a new category to add to that list. Brought up in a world where mobile devices are an integral part of everyday life, #GenMobile is defined by a productivity-focused attitude that finds it as easy to share a status update as it does a password or mobile device with a colleague. And this is why the #GenMobile workforce is both an asset and a threat to business.
To identify the true nature of this new type of employee, Aruba Networks, a Hewlett Packard Enterprise company, surveyed 11,500 workers in 23 countries, asking them detailed questions about their work, their approach to data and their take on corporate and personal security in a technological landscape dominated by mobile devices.
