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It's time for employees to unfriend their social networking apps in the workplace. In a new survey, IT executives say they believe sites like Twitter and Facebook present a high security risk to companies, although they admit employees under 30 want access to them.
A worldwide survey of 512 IT professionals conducted on behalf of Cisco by InsightExpress found employees are consistently working around information technology security policies to use unsupported devices and applications. More than half (51 percent) listed social networking as one of the top three biggest security risks to their organization, while one in five (19 percent) considers it the highest risk.
However, the survey found despite these trends, about half (53 percent) of IT respondents said they are likely to allow personal devices on the network in the next 12 months and seven percent said they already support personal devices, particularly in China and India. Indeed, 71 percent of the survey respondents said that overly strict security policies have a negative impact on hiring and retaining employees under age 30, despite the security risks posed by such applications.
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