Secure Halo Director of Security Intelligence Speaks to Business Leaders in Boston on Corporate Espionage and BYOD
Washington, D.C. – Tailored Solutions & Consulting (Secure Halo), an innovator in enterprise security intelligence specializing in intellectual asset and trade secret protection, has announced that Secure Halo’s Director of Security Intelligence addressed an audience of business leaders and security experts at the Licensing Executive Society Conference in Boston, MA on June 18th.
During a panel presentation on the topic of protecting sensitive data such as intellectual assets and trade secrets, Secure Halo’s director offered a suggestion as to how U.S. companies should understand the growing phenomenon of corporate espionage directed against them.
“Instead of looking at this issue from a moral standpoint, it is better to understand why this issue is occurring from an economic perspective,” said Mark Lopes, Secure Halo’s Director of Security Intelligence. “Why would a competitor choose the longer, harder, and more expensive path to value creation when they could simply steal it from you with the click of a mouse or through a well-placed insider?”
In response to a proposed question concerning effective BYOD policy development, Lopes highlighted the growing challenges companies face while trying to maintain the right balance between information security and employee productivity as wrought by the ubiquity of mobile devices. “At Secure Halo, we tell our clients that access control is the key to preserving intellectual property as it pertains to BYOD,” he said. “From this standpoint, we believe that access to information on devices such as personal tablets and phones must be limited to information that a company would feel comfortable losing in the event of a security incident.”
