Young people contravene corporate policies governing use of own devices

The study, conducted by Vision Critical, at the request of Fortinet, shows that 51% of employees aged 21 to 32 years rather break the rules of use of personal mobile devices in the office than give up smartphones, digital clocks or tablets.

According to the study, 36% of the 3,200 young employees of companies willing to break corporate security policies for the use of cloud storage, like Dropbox, for work purposes. As for wearable computing solutions, such as Google Glass and clever hours, 48 % are willing to break the rules of safety.

16% of respondents believe that these technologies will soon become widespread in the corporate sector. 33 % believe that once these computing devices become more affordable, they will immediately begin to use for the job. On the other hand, only 8% say these technologies have not become popular.

The company Fortinet releases a new version of the operating system FortiWeb 5

The company Fortinet has announced the release of the operating system for the next generation family of devices to protect web applications FortiWeb.

 The new system FortiWeb 5 OS provides enhanced protection from threats and is compatible with all the devices of the family FortiWeb. It is enhanced features including the ability to determine with high accuracy the origin of the traffic and establish permitted or suspicious sources.

With FortiWeb can recognize legitimate and well-known queries to search engines and to distinguish them from scanners, bots, and other threats. This extends the analysis and detection of bots, recently provided by service FortiGuard IP Reputation service, which monitors the compromised IP-address or IP-addresses with abnormal activity.