[HIB]Employees use unsupported applications, devices despite strict policies

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Employees are consistently working around information technology security policies to use unsupported devices and applications and 71% of respondents say that overly strict security policies have a negative impact on hiring and retaining employees under age 30, according to a new survey by Cisco. The survey, which polled 500 IT security professionals across the US, Germany, Japan, China and India, showed that the consumer influence on enterprise IT is growing and that more employees are bringing personal devices and applications into the network, presenting new business opportunities and security challenges. According to the survey, more than half of respondents have determined that their employees use unsupported applications, including social networking (68%), collaborative (47%), peer to peer (47%) and Cloud (33%). Nearly half (41%) of the respondents have determined that employees have been using unsupported devices, and more than one-third of that number say they have had a breach or loss of information due to unsupported network devices.

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