60% of BYOD Users Use the Same Device to Download Pirated Content

In a recent poll in the UK, sixty percent of users who use their personal device for accessing corporate data, also use the exact same device to download pirated content off of ‘bad sites’ that are usually laden with nudity and malware.

Eighty percent of that sixty percent (which is 48%) consider the personal risks of doing so. Thusly, it can be abstracted that even less than the forty-eight percent are running any type of malware protection on their mobile device!

Most major anti virus/malware companies make protection for smartphones. Here are some on Amazon

Check out this cool infographic, it’s from 2015 so some of the numbers are out-dated, but it’s a great representation.

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Here is the article that this post is based off of.

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