The Hindu Business Line : ‘Millennials’ bypass corporate security policies

Coimbatore, June 5 A study by Symantec Corporation on tech-habits of older employees vis-À-vis the millennial workforce has revealed that the latter “is more inclined to increase corporate risk and leave IT decision makers in the lurch in trying to find a balance between security policies and emerging technologies”.

A majority of the Chief Information Officers sensed that the ‘millennials’ (employees within 28 years of age) were not only less inclined than older employees to draw a line between corporate and personal use of technology, but also buck corporate policies to access information.

These workers invariably embraced the latest technologies and personal computing devices more frequently at work then their older counterparts.

Data show

According to a survey, 75 per cent of millennials access Web-based e-mail at work compared to 54 per cent of those in the older age bracket; 66 per cent of these young men and women admitted to accessing Facebook or MySpace more regularly as compared to 13 per cent of other workers and 51 per cent of millennials accessed personal finance applications compared to 27 per cent in the 28-plus age group.

Asked whether they (millennial workforce) felt entitled to use whatever application or device they liked regardless of source or corporate IT policies, close to 70 per cent of them said ‘yes’ against 31 per cent of other workers, the survey reports.

Security issue

The Area Vice-President of Citrix India, Mr Souma Das, observed the blurring of the line between personal and corporate control of technology. He conceded to “security becoming critical in the IT environment, not just in the IT industry but outside too”, as the proliferation of IT is beyond physical boundaries to suppliers, customers and so on.

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