Data theft is greatly vulnerable in cases where employees use mobile gadgets, particularly personal devices, to access company information, share data or ignore to change mobile passwords. According to a recent survey, mobile security breaches have affected over 70% of international firms in the last 12 months only (Gupta et al
Companies in all industries are highly prone to these attacks because they take long to adopt new technologies and software Part II While fixing the two security breach issues, companies can take a few steps to secure their organizational data: Data encryption: Companies should emphasize on data encryption on all portable devices. Reports indicate that as per 2010 to date, the theft or loss of unencrypted portable devices have been accountable for all breach incidents and affected over 50% of all medical records put at risk (Hea, 2010)
Another cloud vulnerability is account or service traffic hijacking occurring. Just like when it happens in a non-cloud environment, it is very troubling when it does happen in a cloud-based infrastructure (Babcock, 2016)
This is not stopping firms and individuals from migrating their applications and data to the cloud. However, security is absolutely a concern when it comes to things that were not online all of the time in prior iterations but now they are (Rashid, 2016)