I know we all moan about a 40-hour work week, because we’re people and we love to moan, but how much of that time is really spent grafting?

We’re all guilty of spending company time on our phones, but time-wasting may be the least of the worries that causes for the businesses that employ us.

It turns out all those connected devices we bring in every day (whether it’s phones, laptops or iPads) can actually put businesses at severe risk, especially if some crafty criminals are keeping a close eye.

This info below from NEWORDER’s blog:

A report found that 86% of infosecurity professionals are concerned with connected device threats, with 55% already having witnessed an attack via wireless device, and 38% via a mobile device.

Despite this concern, 40% say their organisations are “unprepared” or “not prepared at all” to find connected device threats, while 37% can’t even tell how many devices are connected to their networks. 71% are concerned about devices in a default, misconfigured or vulnerable state, including devices with default passwords and “wide-open” settings, followed by unauthorised mobile devices, access points and wearables…

In summary – businesses are just not prepared to cope with the security risks our constant connectivity brings to the workplace.

NEWORDER have now teamed up with international threat detection experts PWNIE EXPRESS, to bring the Pwn Pulse network threat visibility solution to South Africa and provide our local business with adequate protection.

So why are they considered international industry leaders?

The arrival of Pwn Pulse in South Africa allows the IT security team to continuously detect rogue, misconfigured, and unauthorised wireless and wired devices on or around the network. It then audits and provides immediately actionable data that includes a comprehensive list of devices, behaviours, and even historical information; and allows the enterprise security team to track and disable devices from the network…

Described as the only solution available today to allow for real-time wireless and wired device detection, Pwn Pulse comes with broad-spectrum device visibility and awareness covering BYOx/mobile, wireless, Bluetooth, wired, and other network-enabled devices.

“Until now, there has been little to protect the corporate network between the perimeter and the endpoint in the new IOT environment. Pwn Pulse is a unique and highly specialised solution, and the only one of its kind in South Africa. Although it is a niche technology, it is priced within reach of even the mid to small business sector,” says [CEO of NEWORDER Marthinus] Engelbrecht.

A little more on how that four-step detection to response system works below:

When you consider the damage that malware and the likes can cause to a business, no matter what the size, it remains a mystery that more owners don’t make this a higher priority.

For more on that Pwn Pulse solution head over HERE.