Adrian Briscoe

In the desire to capture digital data about people and their activities, technology is being embedded in a growing variety of consumer and industrial objects.

The idea that criminals can hijack your computer content and use encryption to hold your data to ransom is worrying, but there is another, positive side to the technology that rarely gets mentioned.

In the last couple of months discussion of the ransomware computer threat has catapulted out of the computer pages into mainstream news, and for good reasons.

It happens so fast – one moment of inattention on a business trip and someone makes off with your laptop or smartphone. Inconvenient to say the least, but also, who is going to pay for the loss? And what about the stored data that is gone – the RFP that was just completed, the lead information, your client list? 



The rise of Apple devices in the consumer world is now being mirrored in business, with employees increasingly likely to bring in their own devices to access corporate information. So how should organisations address the growing trends of self-selected access devices and the increasing preponderance of Apple in work?