The increased use in the workplace of user-owned devices such as smartphones and tablets, often referred to as bring your own device (BYOD), provides businesses with significant productivity and cost benefits. However, it also presents a number of complex challenges related to security.

Due to the rise of smart media devices like smartphones, tablets and ultrabooks, it is estimated that potentially, as many as 30-35%* of endpoints connected to a company’s network could be unmanaged. These are more at risk than managed endpoints which are typically subject to software patching and endpoint security policies.

Of course unmanaged endpoints are still protected by your perimeter security, such as secure web gateways. However, these have typically evolved from caching proxies and URL filters. What you need is an additional layer of security that provides the best possible levels of protection for unmanaged endpoints.

Symantec Web Gateway (SWG) will...

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Dear All,

As day by day security threat are increasing  and u need to more proactive approach to find latest details and make security tighten. As hackers group are continously working to break out security measures but at the same time organization spending lots of resource and money to make bussiness smooth and secure.

I think this is not just spending the money on IT security and having securty experts. makes u secure by implementing the security solutions. It is equally important to you how intellegently and smartly you take care each sides of security threats and configure it accordingly.

Please also read below threads for getting updates on some recent security threats

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