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Survey: CISOs worried about mobile data security

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The vast majority of federal chief information security information officers noted that laptop use has increased in their agencies over the past year, and more than half said that securing data on mobile devises is now their primary concern, according to a recent survey of 35 of the 117 federal CISOs.

They are worried that federal teleworkers do not have sufficient data security training and technology, according to the poll conducted by the Telework Exchange and underwritten by Hewlett Packard.

This is especially true when it comes to "unofficial" teleworkers -- people who work from home at night and on the weekends without going through an agency's telework program. These individuals are the biggest threat, according to one quarter of CISOs. In contrast, nine in ten CISOs said official teleworkers were not a security concern.

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